Not that there was every any doubt Woodrow Wilson graduate Matthew George was destined for big things after his performances on Woodrow’s stage in “Fiddler on the Roof” and other plays and musicals, but now we have written confirmation from Yale.
Thanks to alert blog reader Louisa Meyer, we know that a play written by George, a Yale senior, has been selected for a regional arts festival in Massachusetts as part of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival. George told the Yale Daily News that he wrote “Cow Play” after working on a dairy farm this past summer. The newspaper’s review of the play pretty much says it all: It takes quite a writer to come up with a compelling play that takes place on a dairy farm amid cardboard and Claymation cows and a character obsessed with a Medieval tapestry.
The play was one of five selected for the festival from about 180 submissions. George also is one of five nominees for a National Student Playwrighting Award; that winner receives $2,500 and an all-expenses-paid performance of the winning production at the Kennedy Center.
A quick glance through the Yale newspaper reveals that George also has been a prolific writer for the school daily, and you can check out some of his stories, most of which appear to involve what it’s like to be a Yale student from what I can tell. And it looks like he has risen to the top of his Yale class, according to this story about his Yale involvement.
