As a playwright, Mattie Brickman’s productions include Modern Love, Playground: The Hallie Flanagan Project (commissioned by Vassar College), Starbox, Meeting: Important, American Catnip, The Imaginary Audience, If Found Please Return to Charles Darwin, The Redundant Colon (also performed), Civil War, Bill Clinton Goes to the Bathroom (or It Might As Well Be Spring) (also directed), and Max Out Loud, a children’s musical adapted from books by Maira Kalman.
Mattie is an associate artist of art.party.theater.company. She has been a playwright-in-residence at New York Stage & Film, and The O’Neill at Yale in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She has also worked with The Lark, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and The 52nd Street Project. Mattie’s six-episode web series, Ro, was produced by Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia for the WIGS channel. As a journalist, Mattie wrote for Money magazine, The Santa Barbara Independent, and The Montecito Journal. Mattie holds an MFA in Playwriting from The Yale School of Drama (Eugene O’Neill Scholarship) and a BA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She trained in ballet and modern dance and was Artistic Director of Expressions Dance Company at Princeton. Mattie is from Santa Barbara, California.