Matthew Libby is a writer and actor based in Brooklyn, by way of Los Angeles. His plays include DATA (Arena Stage world premiere, Helen Hayes Recommended; Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award) and SISTERS (West End world premiere in development, Northern Stage first production; Neukom Award). DATA was previously adapted as a digital production by the Tony-winning Alliance Theatre in May 2021, a production featured in a New York Times review of virtual theatre works that “clear a path toward continued innovation and growth of the form.”

As a playwright, Matt is a 2022-2023 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, Theater Masters Visionary Playwright, two-time Princess Grace Award finalist, four-time O’Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist, and Blue Ink Playwriting Award featured finalist, and his work has been produced and developed by theaters across the country, including Roundabout, Alliance Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Northern Stage, Pioneer Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, Theater Masters, The Barrow Group, The Road Theater Company, WNYU’s Theatre-in-the-Sound, and others. With Stanford Repertory Theater, he helped devise and acted in THE MANY FACES OF FARCE, which was nominated for a 2018 Bay Area Critics Award for Best Production. As a TV writer, he is developing a pilot for Hulu with producer Beau Willimon, and his screenwriting work has been recognized by The Black List and Script Pipeline.

Matt studied cognitive science and creative writing at Stanford University, and received his MFA in dramatic writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded the Chair’s Award for Distinguished Achievement.

He is a proud member of the Writers Guild of America and the Dramatists Guild of America.

To download playwriting resumé, click HERE.

To find Matt on New Play Exchange, click HERE.