His most recent play, an adaptation of Christy Lefteri’s novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo, co- written with Nesrin Alrefaai and directed by Miranda Cromwell, opened at the Nottingham Playhouse in February 2023 followed by a five month tour of the UK and Ireland.
His other plays include Operation Ajax, about the CIA led coup against then Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953; Albatross, based on the poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and recipient of two Elliot Norton Awards from Boston's theatre critics; Tortilla Curtain based on the book by T.C.
in Theatre from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[2] Matthew Spangler's writing has been published in Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly, The James Joyce Quarterly, The New Hibernia Review, Theatre Survey, Nineteenth-Century Literature, SIAR: The Journal of the Western Institute of Irish Studies, The South Atlantic Review, The Biographical Dictionary of Southern Writers, The Art of Elizabeth Bishop, and Performing the Crossroads: Critical Essays in Performance Studies and Irish Culture.
Matthew Spangler is Professor of Performance Studies at San Jose State University in California.