Matthew Lopez
Playwright
Tio Pepe (2008)
Matthew Lopez's play The Whipping Man received its world premiere at Luna Stage in April, 2006, after development with Luna, The Lark Theatre Development Company and Breedingground Productions. The New Group presented a staged reading of the play in February 2008. The play is set to be directed by Lou Bellamy in February 2009 at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, MN. Matthew recently participated in the McCarter Theatre's "In Their Own Voices" event as part of the theatre's annual IN-Festival. He also contributed to the Monarch Theatre Company's recent One-Minute Play Festival. He is currently at work on Reverberation, a play about loneliness and designer dresses. Other plays include Noble Street, Between Us, and Phemmi Klompers: Agent to the Stars. Matthew is a graduate of the University of South Florida.
Updates
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08/20/10
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07/09/10
Matthew Lopez (SPF 2008) at the Gulf Coast Community College Division of Performing Arts
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05/19/10
Matthew Lopez (SPF 2008) Playwright-in-Residence at The Old Globe
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05/03/10
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03/01/10
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01/04/10
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08/12/09
Multimedia
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SPF Diary
July 12, 2009
A Year Goes By
I stopped by SPF 2009 to check out the festival:
July 31, 2008
Tio Pepe Farewell
Well, that’s that. Almost as quickly as it started, it ended. But what a joyous ride we had. In...
July 27, 2008
Getting Pepe on its Dancing Feet
Pepe opened on Tuesday and it has been quite a week. We have all felt shot out of a cannon but now...
July 18, 2008
Stepping Back
Tio Pepe is the second professional production of one of my plays. The first was two years ago...
July 9, 2008
My First Musical
Tio Pepe is, among other things, about musical theatre and the dreams they encourage in those of us...
July 7, 2008
El Proceso Continua
In the time since my last blog, I have attended:
• 1 cast replacement audition
• 6 Tio Pepe...
June 25, 2008
I’m Not Worried About It
You know what happens when you smugly send off the official “First Rehearsal Draft” of your play to...
June 18, 2008
On Your Mark… Get Set… Go!
So here we are, gearing up for the foot race. Or is it a marathon? We are two weeks away from the...
