Author Archives: Matthew Wrather

Dead Man’s Cell Phone at UCLA

By Matthew Wrather | Published: April 29, 2010
I’m very excited to be work­ing on my first full-length project with my class­mates at UCLA. If you live out here, I hope you will con­sider com­ing out to see some very tal­ented actors. And also me. DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE by Sarah Ruhl directed by Alex Levy fea­tur­ing Lau­ren Duna­gan, Josephine Keefe, Nina Law, Cather­ine Leong, Colin [...]
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Returning to the Ancestral Homeland

By Matthew Wrather | Published: April 17, 2009
Though I’ve announced this in sev­eral places (Face­book, Twit­ter), I haven’t really made the update here… Ear­lier this year I accepted an offer of admis­sion to the grad­u­ate act­ing pro­gram at the UCLA School of The­atre, Film and Tele­vi­sion. It’s a 3-year M.F.A. pro­gram, and it means that almost 11 years after mov­ing to New [...]
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Appearing at La MaMa ETC in “It Matters Where You’re Buried”

By Matthew Wrather | Published: February 13, 2009
I’m pleased to announce that I’m appear­ing (and play­ing a lit­tle piano!) in a read­ing of It Mat­ters Where You’re Buried, a new cabaret pray about chanteuse and night­club hostess-to-the-stars Brick Top, at La MaMa ETC in the east vil­lage, as a part of their read­ing series Shadow. Here are the details: IT MATTERS WHERE [...]
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KNB Review at NYTheatre.com

By Matthew Wrather | Published: August 17, 2008
I am delighted that the NYTheatre.com review of KNB the Musi­cal was a rave, hap­pier still that the reviewer seems to have got­ten the writer/director’s aims exactly, and aston­ished that the fol­low­ing sen­tence appeared in it: The cast is led by Glenn Seven Allen as Bat­teaux, who sings, dances, and acts with grand finesse.… Stand­outs include…Matthew [...]
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Fall Out at the, um, Binge Festival

By Matthew Wrather | Published: August 11, 2008
Appar­ently, when it rains it pours. In addi­tion to rock­ing Christo­pher Carter Sanderson’s KNB: The Musi­cal (four more per­for­mances as of this writ­ing!), I’m going to be appear­ing in Fall Out in the Binge Fes­ti­val, a Work­ing Man’s Clothes joint. Our play, Fall Out is a 10 minute comic bro­mance about the apoc­a­lypse. I’ve been [...]
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KNB: The Musical

By Matthew Wrather | Published: July 17, 2008
I’m so excited to announce my first NYC show, an new work called KNB: The Musi­cal, writ­ten, com­posed, and directed fel­low Yalie Christo­pher Carter Sander­son. I’m in the cho­rus (another first!), and it’s been a great way to start off work­ing in a new city and meet incred­i­ble, tal­ented new people. If you’re in the [...]
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Matt on Film: The Raft

By Matthew Wrather | Published: April 3, 2008
I spent the week­end before last in Fall River, MA, home of sev­eral Korean War vin­tage U.S. Navy ships, includ­ing the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. I was there to shoot a flashback/dream sequence for The Raft, an inde­pen­dent short film directed by Robert Jones. The movie stars Ed Asner (!) as a grand­fa­ther [...]
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Matt On Stage: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

By Matthew Wrather | Published: November 21, 2007
Happy Hol­i­days to one and all! You know how I like to cel­e­brate? Tap Dancing! That’s right—you can see me in the Cor­ner­stone Pro­duc­tions Hol­i­day show, The Most Won­der­ful Time of the Year, a song-and-dance spec­tac­u­lar which, for me, rep­re­sents sev­eral firsts: First time imper­son­at­ing Elvis in front of a pay­ing audience First time lift­ing [...]
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Matt on Stage: The Funny Stages

By Matthew Wrather | Published: November 6, 2007
As ever, I’ll be appear­ing in New Haven The­ater Com­pany’s The Funny Stages, CT’s only night of improv com­edy and music, this month on Wednes­day, Novem­ber 14, at 8pm, in the back room of  New Haven’s BAR (254 Crown Street). Tick­ets are $5, and you can bring in BAR’s deli­cious pizza and house brews. We’re appear­ing [...]
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Matt On Stage: 365/365 Concludes

By Matthew Wrather | Published: October 31, 2007
I’m going to be appear­ing at Long Wharf The­atre this Mon­day, Novem­ber 5, in the thrilling con­clu­sion of the New Eng­land Region’s year of 365 Days/365 Plays, by Suzan-Lori Parks. Work­ing with New Haven The­ater Com­pany, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in this project since Novem­ber, 2006—the New Haven Advo­cate called our Black [...]
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