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

Once upon a time, 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, 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 Midtown International Theatre Festival, the Estrogenius Festival, Ars Nova and many more. Recent grad Cynthia Silver won the FringeNYC Best Solo Show Award and a rave in the NY Times for her show BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK! (Click on “Success Stories” for more about Matt’s amazing students.)

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 a Drama Desk nomination for Best New Musical (THE AUDIENCE), the FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Playwrighting (IN TRANSIT), and he has twice been a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award (THE COLLECTORS, BEDDY-BYE). 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.