Matthew A. Everett is the recipient of a Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Writing for the Theater (“Heaven and Home”), and a three-time recipient of support from the Minnesota State Arts Board - a 2007 Artist Initiative Grant (for “Love’s Prick”), a 2002 Career Opportunity Grant (for “The Hopes and Fears of All The Years”), and a 1999 Theater Arts Fellowship (for “Leave [or, The Surface of the World]”). Excerpts of his work are published in “We Just Clicked,” “105 Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance,” “The Playwrights’ Center’s Monologues for Men," and in three volumes of the “Audition Arsenal” series. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a compulsive blogger about the Minnesota Fringe Festival in particular, and theater in the Twin Cities in general (swfringegeek.blogspot.com). He holds an MFA in stage management from the Yale School of Drama. Sample scenes, monologues, and further information on Matthew and his work can be found online at matthewaeverett.com