“Gasda has a deft, humorous touch and a rare talent for steering large numbers of characters.”

Vulture

The plays never feel self-indulgent or claustrophobic. Instead, they are intelligent, light-footed, and witty ... Essential to Gasda’s work is its willingness to skate in the direction of thin ice.

First Things

Gasda has an ear for repartee as sharp as Henri Cartier-Bresson’s eye for immortalizing the 'decisive moment' in a photograph.

The Millions

Matt Gasda is such an incisive playwright, I hesitate to chuck more adjectives in his direction—what if they're the wrong ones? His work is funny and lovely and human in the best way. Perhaps we are, as Nate from Dimes Square says, 'living through the dumbest time in human history,' but here are four retorts.

Sloane Crosley, author of Cult Classic and I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“Life and art tangle stickily together in these plays. Gasda holds a powder-smudged mirror up to our self-obsessed age.”

Matthieu Aikins, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of The Naked Don't Fear the Water

“Attending one of Matt Gasda’s plays in the homemade theaters he finds across town, I feel like I’m part of his dark, funny visions of bohemia; and I feel very inspired to write more and be more ambitious, and I’m reminded of how stories can change your experience of life, how you can live your life as though it were a play, and create your own character, and write your own fortune.

Dean Kissick