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Matthew Ocks

Matthew Ocks is a playwright currently residing in Brooklyn. His work has been produced and/or developed at MOTH Theatre, PlayPenn, the Philadelphia Dramatists Center, the Cardboard Box Collaborative, Walking Fish Theatre and MK Theatre Project. He has assisted on world premiere productions for Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 and at Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia, where he was on staff for four years. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Matthew Ocks
Essay

Playwriting All-Stars to the Rescue

26 January 2012

Matthew Ocks examines the question of a playwright's duty to write a "topical" play.

 

Tony Kushner giving a speech in front of an NYU Tisch podium.
Essay

Grad School Admissions

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda?

13 July 2011

Why is it that we who wish to write the next wave of American theatrical masterpieces are so desperate to get into grad school?

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