Matthew Libby

Logine:

In 1955, Raymond and Evelyn meet at a party. He’s an unhappily married war veteran and math professor; she’s a lonely secretary with aspirations of being a novelist. Their chance encounter leads to a complicated romance, the consequences of which unfold across the next 65 years and two generations

Matthew Libby is a writer and actor currently living in Brooklyn, by way of Los Angeles. His play Data won the Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award, and will be adapted as an interactive digital production presented by the Tony-winning Alliance Theatre in May 2021. Matt is a Princess Grace Award finalist and two-time O’Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist, and his work has been produced and developed by Theater Masters, The Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, The Barrow Group, The Road Theater Company, WNYU’s Theatre-in-the-Sound, and more. 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. In addition, his screenwriting work has been developed by eOne/Brillstein and 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 and was nominated for the Goldberg Playwriting Prize. https://www.matthew-libby.com/

CONTACT: matthew.l.libby@gmail.com