matthew paul olmos

artistic director & resident playwright

Received his B.A. in Playwriting from UC Santa Barbara, where he received a Corwin Award for Best Full-Length Play, The Tragedy of Catalina’s Lover. While there he acted in The Shadowbox, Romeo and Juliet, The Birthday Party, a guerilla production of Gallow’s Humor and the film Clarimonde from the 1999 Reel Loud Festival. His directing credits include the original scripts Confessions and Walk of Pride. He then attended UCLA’s School of Film, Theatre and Radio where he was given the GOP Award for Graduate Playwriting. Finally, he earned his MFA in Playwriting from The Actor’s Studio Drama School. As a playwright, he has been produced several times in Santa Barbara and was part of the THAW festival at HERE in NYC. He was part of the 2003 and 2004 Latino Festivals and the 2002 Black History Festival at The Actor’s Studio Drama School and his children’s play, Cingo Amigos, was produced at Colegio de St. Augustinos in Spain. His plays The Vampire Lesson and the beautifulest room were produced through The Actor’s Studio Repertory at Westbeth Theatre in New York. He was the 2004 Alternate Recipient of New Dramatists Van Lier Award. His plays seal sings its song, Wonders of the Human Body, and locomotive were produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City. His adaptation of Hideo Tsuchida’s It Is Said The Men Are Over In The Steel Tower was produced at TBG Theatre, and he was one of the ensemble writers for Myth America, produced by Personal Space Theatrics in 2007. He is a member of the Playwright/Director Workshop at The Actor’s Studio and a finalist in the 2007 Ensemble Studio Theatre One-Act Marathon. He is co-founder and Artistic Director of woken’glacier theatre company.