Create Your Own Solo Show

“I started class with no experience with solo shows and with no idea what I wanted to write about. I left with a wonderful, unique solo show that I’ve performed all over the city.”

Craig Bridger
Actor/Writer published in the NY Times

Whether you are a Broadway veteran, an accomplished writer or an absolute beginner,
Drama-Desk nominated playwright, professional actor and renowned solo show teacher Matt Hoverman will gently guide you through his unique, powerful, fun, supportive, proven process to create the solo show of your dreams!

You will:
• Learn the fundamentals of exciting storytelling!
• Perform crisp, hilarious character monologues!
• Cut loose in a rant!
• Flesh out and shape an existing project!
• Create a Solo Show that you can do anytime, anywhere!
• TELL YOUR STORY!

SIGN UP FOR THE “CREATE YOUR OWN SOLO SHOW” WORKSHOP NOW!

ABOUT US

In 2001, award-winning playwright and actor Matt Hoverman had an epiphany: to give actors, writers and regular folk a unique forum for telling their own personal and powerful stories.

Ever since, scores of students have flocked to his wildly popular “Create Your Own Solo Show” workshop – and then they go on to win awards, movie deals, fabulous reviews and ovations in theatres all over NYC and the country. Past students have been featured on the cover of Salon.com, on HBO, and in theatres and festivals like the New York International Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, DC’s Capital Fringe Festival, the Midtown International Theatre Festival, the Estrogenius Festival, Ars Nova, LA’s Zephyr Theatre, Boston’s Central Square Theatre and many more. Award winners include: Gioia De Cari (TRUTH VALUES – 2009 FringeNYC Best Solo Show Award), Hogan Gorman (HOT CRIPPLE – 2008 FringeNYC Best Actress Award), Cheryl Harnest (SACRED IS THE NEW PROFANE – 2008 MITF Best Solo Show Award), Cynthia Silver (BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK! - 2005 FringeNYC Best Solo Show Award) and Catherine Rogers (THE SUDDEN DEATH OF EVERYONE) - who won the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to teach solo show writing in Greece! To read more about Matt’s amazing students, click on “Success Stories”.

Matt is also a professional director and a sought-after consultant to solo show performers, actors and writers – honing scripts and elevating performances in his powerful one-on-one coaching sessions.

As a playwright, Matt’s poignant comedies have been honored with the 2006 FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Playwrighting (IN TRANSIT) and a 2005 Drama Desk nomination for Best New Musical (THE AUDIENCE). His play THE STUDENT won the 2009 Samuel French OOB Festival, he has three times been a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, and he was a 2008 Edward Albee Foundation Fellow. As a classically-trained actor, he has performed with prestigious theatres like Yale Rep and the Acting Company, collaborating with visionary directors such as Joseph Chaikin, John Rando, Anne Bogart, Mike Alfreds and Marion McClinton – and he provides the voices for many hit cartoons, including POKEMON, YU-GI-OH! and TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. As an accomplished teaching artist, he has nearly two decades of experience teaching acting, improv, playwriting and storytelling for such institutions as Theater for a New Audience and the University of California, San Diego. He has a BA in playwriting from Brown University (where he was admitted into Paula Vogel’s graduate playwriting workshop as an undergrad), and an MFA in Acting from UCSD.

Also a solo show performer, Matt’s hilarious monologues have been developed or produced by Naked Angels, The Belt Theatre, The Working Theater and published in the New York Times.

He is represented by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.

For more on Matt's playwriting and acting careers, please visit MattHoverman.com