Welcome to the official website of Matthew Kreiner: a multi-talented, well faceted director who has worked throughout the Northeast and makes New York City homebase for his work. Matthew's experience ranges as a producer, director, writer, actor, choreographer and designer. His passion for theatre and movies has lead to his intimate knowledge of the smallest to the most massive components of both industries. Matthew’s productions are varied in material, issues, and budget. However, one thing remains consistent in all of Matthew Kreiner's works: the power, impact, enthusiasm, and zeal that every audience member feels after walking out of one of his productions. In this site, you will see the works that Matthew Kreiner has worked on in both the theatre and in film including Matthew’s latest short, “Four Boys and a Game of Risk”, which was shot in various locations outside of New York City and is currently in consideration at the industry's most respected festivals. Enjoy your stay!

Do you have a play about the macabre, the menacing, or the just plain
funny?

EndTimes Productions is looking for submissions for our fourth annual
Vignettes of the Apocalypse festival. Plays should be one act, no longer
than 30 minutes. Submissions can be sent to
submissions@endtimesproductions.org. The competition ends Feb. 7th.

“Pushing Theatre to the edge fearlessly and perhaps even wantonly … unlike
anything else that’s playing on stage in New York at the moment.”- Martin
Denton, NYTheatre.com, on 2009’s Vignettes Festival

The Godling, winner for Best Drama in last year’s Vignettes of the
Apocalypse festival, went on to the San Francisco Fringe 2009 to win the
Sold Out award, Best Ensemble, and Best Director. This year, we're going to
do even better.
 

We here at Old Guinea Productions, and that namely means, myself, would like to wish you all a very happy New Year. 

2009 has brought us a lot of good times, great plays, awards, naked women, naked men, and the introduction of The Freedom Instinct Theatre!  All in all, it's been a great year and I hope it's been just as great (if not greater) for all of you as well.

The next year is upon us and there is much to look forward too.  On my end, we have the revamp of Manson: The Musical, the escalation of Freedom Instinct Theatre into more regular performances, and upcoming Vignettes for the Apocalypse! 

WEll enough babbling.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!  SEE YOU IN THE NEW DECADE!!

The sexy Naked Holidays has started up and now we're going going into our second week.  We've gotten some positive responses and even attracted the eyes of the New York Times.  Look for Naked Holidays in this Friday's edition of the New York Times. 

Catch this show before the cast changes their minds and puts on their clothes again!

Tickets can be purchased right here!

It's here!  It's finally here!  The show that EVERYONE wants to come see is hitting the stage floor this Wednesdays for us ALL to see!  And let me tell you there is a LOT for you to see.  NAKED HOLIDAYS NYC 2009 has come back to town.  It's made its list, checked it twice, and deemed all of your naughty over nice.  But never fear because EndTimes Productions would rather reward the naughty then treat the nice. 

Tickets are on sale now.  Come see a show that you'll be talking to your friends about for weeks if not your whole life.  I promise you, if you come see this show, not only will you love it, you'll want to bring your friends just so you can see it again! 

Naked Holidays NYC 2009
Ace of Clubs under Acme Bar and Grill
9 Great Jones Street in NYC
December 2, 3, 10, 12, 17, 19 @ 7pm.
December 6, 13, 20 @ 3pm. 

I'll see you there!  Here's a taste!

Naked Holidays, the annual off-color holiday festival returns for its third serving.  Matthew Kreiner joins a cadre of talented directors and actors to put together a thoroughly entertaining evening of variety.  So if you're interesting in seeing some of the best oddball, sexy, naked holiday entertainment this December, come by the Ace of Clubs, have a beer (or whatever is your alcoholic preference) and enjoy the show.  

If you find yourself laughing, don't say I didn't tell you so.

You can get your tickets by visiting the EndTimes website or the Naked Holidays NYC 2009 web page.  But just as a sneak peak, the show runs December 2nd, 3rd, 10th, 12th, 17th, and 19th at 7pm.  December 6th, 13th, and 20th at 3pm.  

Fresh off the heals of their first musical, Manson the Musical, EndTimes Productions is going into full swing for their third annual production of "Naked Holidays NYC".  The standout variety show that was featured by TimeOut NY last year as the "new way to spend the holidays" (the old way being the Rockettes at RadioCity Music Hall), is returning with a brand new slate of off-color holiday themed plays that infamous Millenium Dancers. 

Hello all you out there in the world.  It's been a while and a very busy period.  I apologize for not updating the site but access to computer when you're bouncing around the City is difficult.  Oh for the days where you can update your website with your thoughts, wirelessly, anywhere.  

Come up soon is the very first SIP performance workshop!  We've been working for 8 months and tossing some ideas back and forth and it's time we show you a couple of ideas we have towards scripted improvisation.  But what's more important is that we need your help!  We need an audience to watch what we're doing and let us know what's working and what's not working.  We'll be showing off our Nuovo Commedia and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure.

So come help us out.  We'll be performing THIS Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at 8pm at the Red Room located on East 4th street between 2nd and 3rd avenues.  We're only charging $8 because we want you to come and help us out!

Hope to see you all there!!
Matthew

In this past Vignettes for the Apocalypse festival, Spoken For, the comedy about a world where the affluent no longer bother themselves with the arduous art of articulation and hire "speakers" to translate their grunts and actions, has won four Serling Awards!  Spoken For won Best Actress (Heather Lee Harper), Best Script (S.L. Daniels), Best Director (Yours Truly), and Best Production in a Long Comedy. 

A brief background, the Serling Awards For Apocalyptic Theatre are the awards handed out by the producing festival for excellence within four categories: Long Drama, Long Comedy, Short Drama, and Short Comedy.  This year, Spoken For came up on top in the Long Comedy category, and with great reason, as everyone involved put in a significant amount of work towards the production.

On a personal note, I would like to publically thank everyone involved with Spoken For and also the other show in the festival, Homage to Catatonia, for all their hard work in making this festival truly successful and hope to see you all soon!

If you haven't already heard then now you will know, the major project that I have am spearheading is a little workshop called SIP or Script-Improv Project.  What the workshop basically entails is sort of Research and Development of theatre, where we investigate the concepts and theories of theatre to try and seamlessly integrate improvisation and scripts into a new form of presentation! 

It's an exciting development and you can find all the information at our new SIP page located on the navigation bar or by clicking here.  In fact, this whole posting is littered with clickable links to our new page!  And check it out now because we're going to be showcasing our month long progress this weekend at the Last Stand at the Endtimes Underground.  Our last show in the space!  So check it out!