Matthew Jackett
We Can Stay Here
Logline:
When Louis’ childhood best friend George sells out their tour bus company to big tech, he must fight to maintain the authenticity of his tours and the history of his hometown, but as the business evolves, so do his feelings for George.
Short Bio:
Matthew Jackett is a screenwriter and playwright who writes about overlooked histories in order to unearth tools for advocacy in the present. Matthew’s screenplay “White Coffins” was a Quarterfinalist for the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and the recipient of the 2020 Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Student Grandy Jury Prize and the 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant. In 2019, he was selected as a Storytelling Fellow by VICE at The NYU Production Lab and a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Matthew was born and raised in Marin County, CA and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2020, and also graduated with a BA in History and Literary Arts from Brown University in 2018. He stays awake at night hoping to give queer characters the attention they deserve and because he’s sensitive to caffeine.