Theater Accident is dedicated to the creation and realization of live and digital performances that examine the collision between an audience and its expectations.
Theater Accident is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Contributions for the purposes of Theater Accident are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
production history
2024
2019
The Sea The Mountains The Forest The City The Plain
2018
2017
This Is Normal
2016
2014
2013
2012/2013
The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children
2011
WHO WE ARE
KYLE ANCOWITZ (Co-founder, Co-Artistic Director) is a founding member of Blue Coyote Theater Group. Directing credits with Blue Coyote include premieres of Matthew Freeman’s THAT WHICH ISN'T, WHY WE LEFT BROOKLYN, THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE, THE GREAT ESCAPE, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR, WHAT TO DO TO A GIRL THE WHITE SWALLOW, WHEN IS A CLOCK, THAT OLD SOFT SHOE, THE METAPHOR, GLEE CLUB, and CONFESS YOUR BUBBLE; Kristen Palmer’s DEPARTURES and SOMETHING DECENT, BRILLIANT TRACES; WANDA’S VISIT; THE AUTHOR’S VOICE; NEBRASKA; PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS; KINGFISH; DIMLY PERCEIVED THREATS TO THE SYSTEM; A PHONE CALL FROM WASHINGTON STATE, LATE AT NIGHT; and SATURDAY WITH MARTIN. Former directing resident at Playwrights Horizons. Graduate of Dartmouth College.
Matthew Freeman is a Brooklyn-based playwright. He was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and is a New Dramatists alum, where he proudly received the Joe A. Callaway Award. 2021 Kesselring Prize recipient. Freeman is a graduate of Emerson College.
He has been produced and developed at The Brick Theater, HERE Arts Center, House of Yes, FPAC/The Assemblage in Boston, St. Mark's Church, Dixon Place, Access Theater, East 4th Street Theater, The Metropolitan Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Source, The New Ohio, Boomerang’s First Flight Series, and 80WSE Gallery.
His plays and monologues have been published by Samuel French, Applause, Smith & Kraus, NYTE, and Playscripts. Plays include Silver Spring, The Sea The Mountains The Forest the City The Plain, The Conversation, A Long Trip By Sea, The Hollow, That Which Isn't, The Language, Bluebeard, When is a Clock, The Listeners (Nominee: Best Production - Performance Art: New York Innovative Theatre Awards 2015), Why We Left Brooklyn, The Starving Dress, The Most Wonderful Love, Glee Club, The Death of King Arthur, Confess Your Bubble, Cloud Cuckooland (with Djahari Clark) and Brandywine Distillery Fire.
His audio pieces, with David Greenspan, Jessi D. Hill, Moira Stone and many others, have been a part of the HearNow Festival, New Dramatists Active Listening, Atlanta Fringe Radio, and released as podcasts by Theater Accident.
As a director, Freeman has staged his evening of short plays The Hollow (Brick Theater), The Zebra Shirt of Lonely Children by Matthew Trumbull at the NY International Fringe Festival (Encore Series; Award, Overall Excellence in Solo Performance) and the Minnesota Fringe Festival; and his own adaptation of the mystery plays, Genesis, with Handcart Ensemble.
He divides his time between Brooklyn and the Western Catskills with his wife, magical author Pam Grossman.
Along with Kyle Ancowitz, Freeman is Artistic Director of Theater Accident. You can read his Substack about Star Wars, Ahch-To Baby, here.