Matt Minnicino is a queer, jewish playwright + adaptor + teacher + theatre-builder who lives in manhattan and was born in virginia. he likes to write plays about Now and Then and when they get together and make out. his most recent work was developed at the Gate Theatre in Ireland. he is a Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award and Helen Hayes Award nominee, Arts & Letters Prize winner, semifinalist for a couple of fun things too. he's also enjoyed being a participant in the Great Plains Theatre Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, playwriting groups like Project Y, Fresh Ground Pepper, Pipeline, Primary Stages, Joust, and more. he's professionally adapted Chekhov, Gorky, Ibsen, Moliere, Rostand, Tolstoy, Strindberg, Dickens, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, poems by Rilke, paintings by Klimt, Frankenthaler, and Magritte. his essays on theatre or adjacent have been published by The Dramatist, HowlRound, and others. he teaches in his spare time. MFA: Columbia. he has less hair than his picture implies.