Matt Schatz won the 2012 Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre for Love Trapezoid (Astoria Performing Arts Center Workshop). His musicals and plays include The Tallest Building in the World (Luna Stage), Oh, Gastronomy! (Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival), Georama (Great River Shakespeare Festival Workshop) and Dunkfest ‘88 (Page 73 Reading). Matt has received three commissions from EST/Sloan, and has been a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Songwriting (with collaborator Dina Pruzhansky) and the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Matt is developing his TV pilot about a rabbi (recently purchased by Fox Television Studios) as well as a number of other projects for the stage and the screen.