Matt Minnicino is a playwright, adapter, teacher, and theatre-make who writes little myths and calls them plays. He is a current member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and Project Y. He is an O’Neill Semi-Finalist, a Helen Hayes Award and Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award Nominee, and winner of the Arts & Letters Prize. He is an alumnus of the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Pipeline’s PlayLab, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Fresh Ground Pepper’s PlayGroup, Joust Writers’ Round Table, Everyday Inferno Writer/Director Lab; and others. He has been playwright-in-residence for multiple theatre companies, and his essays on theatre have been published by HowlRound, Gathering of the Tribes, and The Dramatist. He also co-founded the COVID-19-related theatre initiative Theatre Without Theater; served as Literary Assistant for the Dramatists Guild in New York; and is a perennial teaching artist at the American Shakespeare Center. MFA. Columbia. www.mattminncino.com