"One of the best songs I've heard in a long while" --Nytheatre.com
Matt Schatz is a playwright, bookwriter, lyricist and
composer who was a finalist for the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in
musical theatre songwriting. Matt’s plays and musicals include The Tallest
Building in the World (Luna Stage, spring 2011), Love Trapezoid
(Developed with EST/Sloan and p73, Finalist for O’Neill and Yale Musical
Theater Conferences), Pinning Hope (Creative Destruction’s “Obama
Drama” Festival) The Baby is Blue (Incumbo Theater Company/Midtown
International Theatre Festival) and Hearing Things. He has
written music and lyrics for Roanoke (Actors Theater of Louisville,
Heideman Finalist, published as part of Humana Festival 2009: The Complete
Plays), Co-op (EST), Before the Moment (EST/Sloan,
2008 AFI Sloan Summit in Los Angeles), book and lyrics for Exchanges (music by
Michael Kooman, commissioned for the American Cancer Society's "Evening of Elegance" in Altoona, PA) and lyrics for Oh My! (IRT Theater’s Artist in
Residence Program) and music for Me First! The Pioneer Plays (The 52nd
Street Project).Matt is a
three-time recipient of an EST/Sloan Commission, a two-time Shubert Fellow, and
has been a finalist/semi finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, the
Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship and the Magic Theatre’s Sloan Initiative.
Member: the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatist Guild.
Alumnus: P73’s “Interstate 73,” Youngblood Playwrights Residency at EST. MFA:
Carnegie Mellon University.
