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contact name: Matthew Everett
phone: 612-872-4538
fax: 612-871-4165
email: mail@matthewaeverett.com

mailing address:
P.O. Box 3614
Minneapolis MN 55403-3614

Related Organizations:
2003 - present - Host of SPNN's "Cue to Cue - A Conversation About Theater in the Twin Cities" which spotlights small and mid-size theater companies and solo theater artists in Minneapolis and St. Paul - each year we also tape several episodes spotlighting the variety of artists participating in the Minnesota Fringe Festival

Ivey Awards
Dramatists Guild
American Civil Liberties Union
Actors Equity Association
Quatrefoil Library

M.F.A., Yale School of Drama - New Haven, CT - 1991

B.S., Indiana State University - Terre Haute, IN - 1987 - Double Major - Theater and Radio/TV/Film

2007 - Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant ($6,000 to workshop the script "Love's Prick")

2002 - Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant ($1,500 to help defray costs related to development of new musical "The Hopes and Fears of All the Years" at Cal State Fullerton)

1999 - Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship ($8,000 to develop the play "The Surface of the World")

1997 - Drama-Logue Award - Outstanding Achievement in Writing for the Theater ("Heaven and Home")

OTHER HONORS

2003 finalist - Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
2002 finalist - Jerome Fellowship - The Playwrights' Center

2001 finalist - Minnesota Independent Film Fund (screenplay, "Make Me")

2000 finalist - Heideman Award - Actors Theater of Louisville ("Dandelion Snow")

2000 finalist - National Playwrights Conference - Eugene O'Neill Theater Center ("The Surface of the World")

2000 finalist - Jerome Fellowship - The Playwrights' Center

2000 finalist - McKnight/IFP-North Screenwriting Fellowship (screenplay adaptation, "Heaven and Home")
1999 finalist - Outfest Screenwriting Competition ("Heaven and Home")
1999 finalist - Morrow Screenwriting Competition ("Heaven and Home")

1998 nominee - Best Los Angeles Theater Production - GLAAD Awards (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) ("Heaven and Home")
1998 - Top Ten Theater Productions (L.A.) - Frontiers Magazine ("Heaven and Home")
1997 - Critic's Choice - Drama-Logue (L.A.)("Heaven and Home")

1996 - Stagetime Developmental Reading Series ("Heaven and Home") - The Playwrights' Center - Minneapolis, MN

1987 - First Place, Drama - Mary Reid McBeth Writing Competition - ("Faded Sofas")
1987 - 2nd Place, Drama - Sigma Tau Delta Writing Competition ("Snapshot," "In The Forests of the Night," and "Sanctuary," all under the collective title "Vanishing Points")
1986 - First Place, Drama - Mary Reid McBeth Writing Competition ("Incorrect Change")
1985 - First Place, Drama - Mary Reid McBeth Writing Competition ("Refuse")
1985 - First Place, Drama - Sigma Tau Delta Writing Competition ("Once In A Lullaby")
1984 - Winner, Full Production - Indiana State University Theater Department Playwriting Competition - musical adaptation of Grimms Brothers' fairy tale "King Thrushbeard" with composer/lyricist Stephen Gawronski

THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS

COMMISSIONS

2006 - "But Not For Love" - Allegheny Playshop Theater - Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

2006 - "How The Coyote Stole Fire" - Starting Gate Productions - St. Paul, MN

2002 - "The Hopes and Fears of All the Years" (musical with composer/lyricist Robert Hartmann) - California State University, Fullerton, CA, Department of Theater and Dance

2001 - "Studpuppy" - Allegheny Playshop Theater - Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

OTHER PRODUCTIONS

2007 - "Love's Prick" - workshop production funded by Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, produced in partnership with Outward Spiral Theater Company, performed at Center for Independent Artists, Minneapolis, MN

2005 - "Head Above Water" - part of the site-specific short play showcase Thirst, at Joe's Garage, Minneapolis, MN
2005 - "Invisible" - part of the site-specific short play showcase Thirst, at Joe's Garage, Minneapolis, MN

2005 - "Touched By A Handbag (verse version)" written with Anne Bertram, produced as part of the Poetry Puppetry Cabaret of the Powderhorn Writers' Festival - Center for Independent Artists, Minneapolis, MN

2004 - "Dandelion Snow" - Out On Stage Productions as part of the The Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2004 - "Leave" - as part of Bedlam Theatre's Community Ten Minute Play Festival
2004 - "Studpuppy" - Edinboro State University, Edinboro, PA

2004 - "Champion of Breakfast," part of The Chicago Avenue Project - Breakfast of Champions - Pillsbury House Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2003 - "Dr. Worm," part of The Chicago Avenue Project - Buzzword - Pillsbury House Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2001 - "Snowball's Chance," part of The Chicago Avenue Project - The Snowball Effect - Pillsbury House Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2000 - "Bethesda," part of The Chicago Avenue Project - Blast from the Past - Pillsbury House Theater, Minneapolis, MN

2000 - "Dandelion Snow," part of Ten By Ten (a ten minute play showcase, extended run) - The Original Theater Company, at the Theater Garage, Minneapolis, MN

1999 - "The Surface of the World" - workshop production funded by Fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board - The Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, MN

1998 - "Mountains of Instead," part of Foreplay (an evening of four one-acts) - The Ebullient Theater Company, at the Loring Playhouse, Minneapolis, MN

1997-1998 - "Heaven and Home" (extended run) - The Subterranean Theater Company, Los Angeles, CA
1996 - "Heaven and Home" - The Early Stage theater company, at the Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN

READINGS/STAGED READINGS

2007 - "Strike, Split, Spare" written with Holly Davis as part of Theater Unbound's 24 Hour Play Project - Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2006 - "Cassandra 2006" written with Cherie Anderson as part of Theater Unbound's 24 Hour Play Project - In The Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2005 - Emigrant Theater's first annual Play Date fundraiser - submitted three scenes for their Build Your Own Play pyramid of scenes to be auctioned off
2005 - "Touched By A Handbag" - written with Anne Bertram as part of Theater Unbound's 24 Hour Play Project - Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2003 - "I Humbly Apologize for My Leader. Everything He Says and Does Is An Embarrassment To Us All" - written with Carol Critchley as part of Theater Unbound's 24 Hour Play Project - Four Seasons Dance Studio, Minneapolis, MN

2002 - "The Hopes and Fears of All the Years" (musical with composer/lyricist Robert Hartmann) - public workshop reading at the Loring Playhouse, Minneapolis, MN

2002 - "Feather Duster" (with Anne Bertram) and "Carnival of the Damned" (with Christopher Kidder) - both part of the 24-Hour Play Projects at Center for Performing Arts - Minneapolis, MN
2001 - "Hunt for the Bus Monkey" - part of Theater Unbound's 24-Hour Play Project at Cedar Riverside Peoples Center and Creating A Scene, a fundraiser for The Playwrights' Center - both Minneapolis, MN

2000 - "Heaven and Home" - McKnight/IFP-North Screenplay Reading Series at the Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, MN

2001 - "Hunt for the Bus Monkey" (written with Anne Bertram) - Creating A Scene, a fundraiser for The Playwrights' Center - also part of the 1999 Roundtable Ten Minute Play Festival at The Playwrights' Center - Minneapolis, MN
2000 - "Extra Cheese" - Creating A Scene, a fundraiser for The Playwrights' Center - also part of the 1999 Roundtable Ten Minute Play Festival at The Playwrights' Center - Minneapolis, MN
1999 - "Dandelion Snow" - Creating A Scene, a fundraiser for The Playwrights' Center - also part of the 1997 Roundtable Ten Minute Play Series - Minneapolis, MN

1998 - "Finite Hearts That Yearn"
1997 - "The Surface of the World"
1996 - "Rubicon Waltz"
1995 - "Heaven and Home"
1994 - "Hard News"
all full length plays read as part of the Roundtable reading series at The Playwrights' Center - Minneapolis, MN

2001 - "Studpuppy" (excerpt)
2000 - "Tools"
1998 - "Across Their River"
1997 - "Dandelion Snow"
1996 - "The Bronze Bitch Flies At Noon"
1995 - "Styx"
1994 - "For Jeffrey"
all part of the Roundtable's annual Ten Minute Play Festival at The Playwrights' Center - Minneapolis, MN

1998 - "Dandelion Snow"
1997 - "The Surface of the World"
1996 - "Heaven and Home"
all readings done as part of the events for Gay Pride or National Coming Out Day at Minneapolis area Barnes & Noble bookstores

1997 - "Heaven and Home" - New Play Series, Hedgerow Theater - Rose Valley, PA

1995 - "Heaven and Home" - a public reading sponsored by the Minnesota AIDS Project at the Sabathani Center - Minneapolis, MN

1995 - "Hard News" (screenplay adaptation) - part of the Screenwriters' Workshop reading series - Minneapolis, MN

"Slow Dance for Three"
"Rubicon Waltz"
"Hard News"
public readings performed by members of the company for the 1990 Colorado Shakespeare Festival - Boulder, CO

ACADEMIC PRODUCTIONS
all took place at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

1987 - "Somebody Else's Movie"
1986 - "Sanctuary" (part of New Play Festival)
1986 - "Incorrect Change"
1985 - "Mysphitz" (part of New Play Festival)
1985 - "Faded Sofas"
1985 - "In The Forests of the Night"
1984 - "Refuse" (part of New Play Festival)
1984 - "King Thrushbeard" (musical adaptation of the Grimms Brothers' fairy tale with composer/lyricist Stephen Gawronski)

2005 - Audition Arsenal - 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes and Under - Smith and Kraus Publishing, Inc. - monologues from "Heaven and Home" and "Leave (The Surface of the World" were included in the volumes - Women in their 20s, Women in their 30s, and Men in their 20s

2005 - The Playwrights' Center Monologues for Men - included the opening monologue from "Studpuppy"

2003 - present - blogger for Minnesota Fringe Festival website - www.fringefestival.org

2001-2002 - regular "Straight Talk" columnist for www.garyjr.com

2001 - Subtext - a magazine of The Playwrights' Center - included an excerpt from "Extra Cheese" part of the larger "Dandelion Snow" cycle of short plays

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Birth Place:
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth Date:
August 26, 1964

Gender:
Male

Active Place:
Minneapolis

Minnesota County:
Hennepin

Playwright, Literary

http://www.matthewaeverett.com 

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