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Matron by Makeda M. Declet and Cry by Rich Wong
Rogue Machine Theatre’s 2025 Playwright’s Roundtable Festival presents
Matron by Makeda M. Declet
and
Cry by Rich Wong
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Saturday August 30th at 1PM
Matron
MatronWritten by Makeda M. Declet
Directed by Carly DW Bones
Sandy is a wealthy patron who’s just beaten cancer. Alice is a rising artist who’s just destroyed her magnum opus. When they meet—on the eve of Alice’s vanished exhibit—they collide: one desperate to worship, the other dodging absolution.
MAKEDA M. DECLET, Playwright
Makeda M. Declet is a Guyanese-American playwright, TV writer, and performer originally from Brooklyn, NY. Her work, shaped by network television, bootleg CDs, and Y2K, explores themes of nostalgia and the American Dream. Makeda holds an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University and a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has developed work at EST/LA, Moving Arts, and Mara Brock Akil’s Story 27 Writer’s Colony. Her play Darlings was an honorable mention for the prestigious Leah Award in 2024. Looking ahead, Makeda is excited to continue queering Black stories for both the stage and screen.
Sunday August 31 at 8PM
Cry
Cry Written by Rich Wong
Directed by Michael Matthews
When the prodigal mother returns home, she attempts to reclaim a life and family that have outgrown her, leaving them all with one wound that all the time in the world cannot seem to heal.
RICH WONG, Playwright
Rich Wong is a graduate of UCLA where he earned a BA in film and television. His theatre credits include Company of Wayward Saints, Reservations For Two, Gruesome Hotel, Measure For Measure, Come Get Maggie, Blue, The Shadow, Lines in the Dust, Sukkot, H*tler’s Tasters, Psycho Beach Party, and A Good Guy. When he’s not stage managing, you may find him forcing blood from a stone (or what he likes to call writing).
Rogue Machine Theatre’s 2025 Playwright’s Roundtable Festival
August 27–31 | Seven Plays in Five Days!
At the historic Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood
Roundtable Director: Lina Patel
Festival Producers: Emily Jerez, Lina Patel and Justin Okin
The Playwright’s Roundtable is Rogue Machine Theatre’s incubator for bold, boundary-pushing new work. Over the course of a seven-month residency, participating playwrights meet biweekly in a peer-led environment to develop original plays from the ground up.
Rooted in Rogue Machine’s belief that storytelling builds community and sparks change, the Roundtable empowers a diverse group of emerging and mid-career writers to create theatrical works that speak to the present moment—while standing the test of time.