DGI INSTRUCTOR & PLAYS IN PROGRESS MENTOR
MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS
Their DGI Teaching History includes Writing Workshop: The Challenges of Dialogue and Writing Workshop I.
Matthew Paul Olmos is also a Plays in Progress Mentor. Interests: social or political issues, non-realism, drama. Request Matthew as a PIP Mentor.
MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient (2014 Lab, 2013 UCROSS, 2009 Time Warner Storytelling Fellow), New Dramatists Resident Playwright, Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist in Residence, Princess Grace Awardee in Playwriting, National Latino Playwright Awardee, and La MaMa e.t.c.'s Ellen Stewart Emerging Playwright Awardee as selected by Sam Shepard.
He spent two years as a Mabou Mines/SUITE Resident Artist being mentored by the late Ruth Maleczech and is a former New York Theatre Workshop's Emerging Artist Fellow, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Primary Stages' Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Resident Artist, INTAR H.P.R.L Playwright, Rising Circle Collective Playwright, terraNOVA Collective's Groundbreakers Playwright; he is also an Ensemble Studio Theater lifetime member. His work has been presented both nationally and internationally, as well taught in university and is published by Samuel French and NoPassport Press.
He holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the New School for Drama, a B.A. in Playwriting from UC Santa Barbara. He is a regular essayist for The Brooklyn Rail, a previous National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development reader, a New York Innovative Awards judge, selection committee member for The Lark’s Playwrights’ Week and Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellowship; as well a Kilroys nominator.