Matthew Lopez

Quick Facts

Full Name	Matthew Lopez
Occupation	Mixed Martial Artist
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1987(1987-01-21)
Age	37
Birthplace	Panama City
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Capricorn

Matthew Lopez Biography

Matthew Lopez is one of the most popular and richest Mixed Martial Artist who was born on January 21, 1987 in Panama City, Florida, United States. The Whipping Man, set in Richmond Virginia immediately after the American Civil War, concerns two newly freed slaves who meet their former master. Like their master, the former slaves identify as Jewish. The play examines how Passover was celebrated in 1865, the day following Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Appomattox. It examines freedom and how people can be enslaved to addictions or prejudices.

Lopez’s breakthrough play, The Whipping Man, debuted in Montclair (New Jersey) at Luna Stage in 2006. It was then presented Off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club on February 1, 2011. The show was directed by Doug Hughes. Andre Braugher starred in it. The Off-Broadway productions of The Whipping Man were extended four times and won the Obie Award, Performance (Braugher), and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design in 2011. Lopez was awarded the John Gassner New Play Award.

The Legend of Georgia McBride debuted at Denver Center of Performing Arts in 2014, and premiered Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2015. The play tells the story of Casey, a down-on-his-luck Elvis impersonator who is induced to turn his jumpsuits into dresses and become a drag queen. The play toggles between quippy comedy and show-stopping dance numbers, with Charles Isherwood of The New York Times commenting that the play was “full of sass and good spirits – along with a spritz or two of sentimentality.”

Lopez’s next play Reverberation premiered at Hartford Stage, Hartford, Connecticut running from February 19, 2015 to March 15, directed by Maxwell Williams and starring Luke Macfarlane. The story follows Jonathan, a young gay New Yorker, who spends increasingly more time holed up in his Astoria apartment following a violent attack that has left him afraid to go out into the world. He is befriended by his new upstairs neighbor, Claire, a Holly Golightly-like character who, despite her active social life, is just as afraid and lonely as Jonathan. The play examines how violence – against women, against the LGBTQ community – impacts the lives of those both directly and indirectly affected by it. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times writes that “the play is marked by a perceptiveness about the echoing loneliness that many urban dwellers live with.”

Somewhere premiered in September 2011 at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, before moving to Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut. Matthew Lopez was the Playwright-in-Residence at the Old Globe Theatre. This play features a majority Latin cast and concerns a family of actors living in Manhattan in 1959 when West Side Story was a hit. Their family must fight for their home, their dreams, and their neighborhood after Lincoln Center is built. Giovanna Sardelli directed the production and featured Matthew Lopez’s aunt Priscilla Lopez. The production was praised by critics who compared Lopez’s writing style to Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.

Matthew Lopez Net Worth

Matthew Lopez is one of the richest Mixed Martial Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matthew Lopez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lopez’s family history is the source of Somewhere’s story. His father, who was an extra in West Side Story’s 1961 film adaptation, appeared in the playground just after the prologue.

American screenwriter and playwright Matthew Lopez. His 2006 play, The Whipping Man (which won the Obie and Lucille Lortel awards as well as the John Gassner Newplay Award by the Outer Critics Circle) is his most famous work. His 2018 play, The Inheritance, opened at the Young Vic Theatre on March 2018, before moving to the West End in Oct 2018. Lopez’s plays often examine American class structures and race as well as their relationships to American society.

Between 2012 and 2016, The Whipping Man was one of most widely produced plays in America.

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Set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation’s responsibilities may be to the next. The play is a loose adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End. The premiere featured a cast that included Vanessa Redgrave, John Benjamin Hickey, and Paul Hilton as Forster himself.

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Is Howards LGBT ending?

Gay author E.M. Forster in 2020 seems timelier than ever despite being dead for 50 years. His novel “Howards End,” published in 1910, is the source material for the current Broadway hit play “The Inheritance,” re-envisioning the characters and plot in gay 21st-century New York.

Is Matthew Lopez Mexican?

A self-described “ gay Puerto Rican from the Florida panhandle,” he is the nephew of Broadway actor Priscilla Lopez, a member of the original cast of “A Chorus Line.” López saw his play take home four wins out of 11 nominations.

How old is Matthew Lopez playwright?

45 years (March 24, 1977)

Where does Matthew Lopez live?

Lopez, who lives in New York , spoke by phone for this edited conversation about his “Georgia” journey. “Georgia McBride” is set in your hometown of Panama City, Fla.

Is red white and royal blue going to be a movie?

Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine will lead the movie adaptation of the beloved book Red, White & Royal Blue for Amazon and Berlanti/Schechter Films.