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Matthew Sekellick

Matthew Sekellick is a writer and artist working in and around theater and performance living in Philadelphia.

Matthew Sekellick is a writer, director, and performer from Upstate New York living in Philadelphia. Matthew works in and about theatre and performance, making plays, poems, essays, performances, installations, interventions, and videos. His writing has appeared in Theatre Journal, Studies in Musical TheatreJacobin, Protean, Peach Mag, and Prolit, among others, and he writes a newsletter on American theater and performance in Philadelphia, Plays Unpleasant. He has performed from Montreal to Michoacán, directed for Torn Space Theater, Hudson Valley Community College, and acted with the New York State Theater Institute and Saratoga Shakespeare Company. He holds an MA from the University at Buffalo, a BA from Purchase College, and has trained with SITI Company. sekellick.net.

Essay

How Can You Turn Awareness into Action?

A Roadmap Toward Economic Justice for Theatre Folk

29 June 2017

Matthew Clinton Sekellick discusses moving beyond awareness with action, advocating for theatre artists and administrators to join forces with existing social justice movements.

Essay

No More Mamets

12 February 2017

Matthew Clinton Sekellick discusses the work of David Mamet and Neil LaBute, challenging the theatre community to be more inclusive and to not produce work that reinforces the dominant narrative. 

Essay

Against Entrepreneurship

9 December 2016

Matthew Sekellick argues that identifying as entrepreneurs is not merely a survival strategy, but a false consciousness that alienates us further from our fellow artists and artisans. As theater artists, what we have to do is … imagine a world outside the confines of the present: a world beyond the horizon of entrepreneurship.

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Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Conflict Over Billing

7 December 2016

Matthew Clinton Sekellick unpacks the crediting dispute over the Broadway production of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, and the implications for the relationship between non-profits and commercial producers.

Essay

Acting in Solidarity

Working for a Living Wage

16 October 2015

Matthew Sekellick explores what New York’s proposed minimum wage increase would mean for theatre artists.

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