Matt Fotis

Matt Fotis is an award-winning playwright whose plays have seen stages from coast to coast. His work has been presented or developed at such places as The Lark, The Playwrights' Center, The Kennedy Center, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Emerging Artists Theatre, City Theatre, Ten Grand Productions, MATC Dramatists Play Lab, and many others. He is a former Playwrights' Center Core Apprentice and has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Albright Creative Research...See more

Matt Fotis is an award-winning playwright whose plays have seen stages from coast to coast. His work has been presented or developed at such places as The Lark, The Playwrights' Center, The Kennedy Center, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Emerging Artists Theatre, City Theatre, Ten Grand Productions, MATC Dramatists Play Lab, and many others. He is a former Playwrights' Center Core Apprentice and has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Albright Creative Research Experience. His plays have won The Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting, UCM's Theatre for Young Audiences National Playwriting Award, and The Sonoma County Repertory Theatre's SCRipts Festival. He's been a Finalist for the Heideman Award and a National Finalist for the KC/ACTF National Ten Minute Play Award as well as a National Finalist for the John Cauble Outstanding Short Play Award. His other plays include Marybeth Mary Roth, The Van Gogh Exhibit, A Year in the Life of 25 Strangers Living in a City by the Lake, Burying Mom, and The Adventures of Menorah Man & Dreidel Boy: A Play About Christmas. He is also the author of two solo performance pieces, Potpourri Potluck Kitchen Sink Meatloaf and My Fragile Family Tree. His works have been published by Original Works Publishing, JAC Publishing & Promotions, Smith & Kraus, and Meriwether Press. He teaches writing for performance at Albright College. Visit him online at ... See less