Documentary | Live Theater
Writer | Actor
Year
2024
ROLEPLAY is a feature documentary that follows a group of college students as they confront sexual violence on their campus through a transformative theater process. This urgent coming of age story follows young adults grappling with sex, consent, identity, and power on their paths to adulthood.
“It changed me. Access to these brilliant young minds and what they’ve accomplished got to me on a cellular level. I remembered to be hopeful for a moment.”
- Ashley Smith, Flagpole
More than a documentary about campus sexual violence, Roleplay is a damning window into the ways society reinforces rape culture.”
- Brandon Lewis, Geek Vibes Nation
One of the best docs I’ve seen so far this year is Katie Mathews’ Roleplay, a film that truly inspired me because it does what so few films like this are willing to do: It lets its subjects be messy, unpredictable, and human… Mathews has a deceptively subtle voice as a director, providing a supportive platform more than insisting on cinematic results. It leads to a film that’s all the more powerful by virtue of feeling so very real.
- Brian Tallerico, Managing Director, RogerEbert.com
“Timely and important… It is a film that is going to rattle cages.”
- Steve Kopian, Unseen Films
