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Matthew Lopez

The Whipping Man premiered off-Broadway in 2011 at Manhattan Theatre Club in a production directed by Doug Hughes and starring Andre Braugher. For it, Mr. Lopez was awarded the John Gassner Playwriting Award from the Outer Critics Circle. The play premiered at Luna Stage in Montclair, NJ in 2006 and was produced and developed at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, MN and the Old Globe in San Diego before arriving in New York. Other works include Reverberation, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Zoey's Perfect Wedding and The Sentinels, which premiered last year in London as part of Headlong Theatre Company's 9/11 Decade project. Mr. Lopez is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a past member of the Ars Nova Play Group and a recent artist-in- residence at the Old Globe. He is currently the 2012/13 Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage. He is commissioned by Hartford Stage, Roundabout Theatre Company and Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Lopez is a staff writer on the HBO series The Newsroom.

The Whipping Man premiered off-Broadway in 2011 at Manhattan Theatre Club in a production directed by Doug Hughes and starring Andre Braugher. For it, Mr. Lopez was awarded the John Gassner Playwriting Award from the Outer Critics Circle. The play premiered at Luna Stage in Montclair, NJ in 2006 and was produced and developed at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, MN and the Old Globe in San Diego before arriving in New York. Other works include Reverberation, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Zoey’s Perfect Wedding and The Sentinels, which premiered last year in London as part of Headlong Theatre Company’s 9/11 Decade project. Mr. Lopez is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a past member of the Ars Nova Play Group and a recent artist-in- residence at the Old Globe. He is currently the 2012/13 Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage. He is commissioned by Hartford Stage, Roundabout Theatre Company and Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Lopez is a staff writer on the HBO series The Newsroom.