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    • BARABBAS by Matthew Wells
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    • QUEEN MAIR by Matthew Wells
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29th street playwrights collective

matthew wells
​Resident Emeritus

                                                   Matthew Wells

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Matthew Wells’s plays have been received readings and production Off Broadway and across the country. “Oscar and Adonis” won the 2000 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival One Act Play Award, and was performed as part of the 2001 Festival in New Orleans. Barabbas was a 2017 O'Neill Semi-finalist.  “Schrödinger’s Girlfriend,” a Sloan Grant commission which had staged readings by Ensemble Studio Theatre at both the 1999 and 2000 First Light Festivals, opened the Magic Theatre’s 2001-2002 season in November 2001, and was produced in the spring of 2003 at the Act II Playhouse in Ambler, PA. “Donna Paradise” was produced in 2002 in New York by Double Helix Theatre Company, which also produced a one-act entitled "Water Over The Bridge” in June of 2004. “Monkey’s Uncle” was commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre in 2005 as part of their Sloan Project, and was given readings at EST’s First Light Festival in 2005 and 2006. Most recently, “Scarlet Woman” was performed during the 2011 Frigid Festival in New York, where it won an Audience Best Award, and was subsequently performed in Edmonton and Winnipeg as part of the Canadian Fringe Festival, and at the Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul. “Beautiful Day” was a finalist at both the 2013 National Playwrights Conference and the 2013 Lark Playwrights Week, and was chosen to be part of Actors' Theatre of Charlotte's nuVoices Festival in January 2016. “Countrie Matters” was part of the PlayLab series at the 2015 Great Plains Theatre Conference; his ten-minute play “Romeo and Rosaline” was read at the Red Bull Theater Short Play Festival in July 2015; and “Elvis at Auschwitz” was done by Nylon Fusion in August 2015.

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  • Upcoming Events
  • Home
  • DONATE
  • New Works 2022
    • Global Excursions by Maxine Kern
    • Love Triangle: A Trilogy
  • New Works Series 2020/21
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2019
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2018
    • FUKT by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • GLORIOUS DISASTER by Caroline Prugh
    • THE DIAMOND EATER by Carrie Robbins
    • EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD by Robin Rice
    • LEAVE PHILADELPHIA, NEVER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • TOM & TED GO TO THE RACES
  • Meet the Artists
    • Melissa Bell
    • Edgar Chisholm
    • Paul Hufker
    • Maxine Kern
    • Gabrielle Maisels
    • Robin Rice
    • Catherine Rogers
    • Michael Wells-Oakes
    • Emeritis Members >
      • Emma Goldman-Sherman
      • David Sard
      • Julie Richardson
      • Carrie Robbins
      • Matthew Wells
      • Suzanne Willett
  • New Works Series 2017
    • BARABBAS by Matthew Wells
    • THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DR. CUTTER by Carrie Robbins
    • LADY CAPULET by Melissa Bell
    • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • MAN & WIFE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • SURVIVORS by James Masten
    • LUST & LIES by ROBIN RICE
    • BREATH TO BREATH by Michael Wells-Oakes & Max Balton
  • New Works Series 2016
    • QUEEN MAIR by Matthew Wells
    • LOVE, SEX, ANARCHY by Melissa Bell
    • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
    • SHADOWS by David Sard
    • BONGANI by Gabrielle Maisels
    • LIFE AND OTHER DISASTERS by Julie Richardson
    • A COLD DECEMBER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS by Emma Goldman-Sherman >
      • Stage one readings >
        • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
        • LIFE, & OTHER DISASTERS by Julie RIchardson
        • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
  • Michael Warren Powell Memorial Reading
  • The UNaguration
  • Feisty Women Festival
  • Support New Work
    • Our Supporters
  • The Future Is Female Festival
  • Write Now Workshop
  • Writing Prompt
    • Freewriting Rules
    • March 2017 Prompt
    • April 2017 Prompt