Matt Foss is an Autistic writer who writes original stories and adapts a wide range of IP for stage and screen.
He grew up on a cotton farm in West Texas, worked as a wildlife biologist in Montana before transitioning to working as a professional actor and playwright in Chicago and trained and performed at Russia’s famous Moscow Art Theatre. He has an MFA and PhD in theatre.
In 2023, the Austin Film Festival and Movie Maker Magazine named him on of the Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch and on Final Draft/Coverfly’s Best Unrepresented Writers List. He’s an AFF finalist, a Nicholls Quarterfinalist and a finalist in both the Final Draft/Big Break and Page Awards Screenplay Contests.
He is a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award and his adaptations and productions have won multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards-Chicago’s top theatre prize.
His comedy feature, LONE WOLVES, directed by Ryan Cunningham (INSIDE AMY SCHUMER, BROAD CITY) will premiere in 2024. (TRAILER)
He is a member of the WGA-East, repped by Tom Carter at Artillery Creative and a proud graduate of SPACE CAMP at the U.S. Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was twelve and it was amazing.