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Matt Schatz

MATT SCHATZ

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Paradigm  represented by Jonathan Mills

Matt Schatz won the 2012 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Musical Theatre Librettist for Love Trapezoid (workshop production with the Astoria Performing Arts Center, 2012). Also a playwright, lyricist, composer and screenwriter, Schatz's other works include the musical Georama with West Hyler and Jack Herrick (workshop with the Great River Shakespeare Festival, 2012), and the play the Tallest Building in the World (Luna Stage, 2011). Short musicals include Richie Farmer Will Have His Revenge on Durham with Diana Grisanti ("Best of Fest" at Austin's FronteraFest, 2011), and Roanoke with Michael Lew (Humana Festival 2009, Heideman Award Finalist). Schatz has received three commissions from the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project, has been a finalist and twice a semi-finalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, and was a finalist for the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for excEllence in musical Theatre songwriting (with composer Dina Pruzhansky). Member: ASCAP, the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, the Dramatists Guild and EST. Alumnus: Youngblood and Interstate 73 writers groups (2009, 2012). M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University. Schatz is currently working on a number of musical and non-musical projects for the stage and screen, including an original hip hop musical about a 1988 slam dunk contest.

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         Baby is Blue, The         Co-Op the Musical         I Battled Lenny Ross         Love Trapezoid         Minor Inconvenience, A         Oh My!         Oh, Gastronomy!         Pinning Hope         Tallest Building in the World, The

Baby is Blue, The

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1st Produced:
Midtown International Theatre Festival, At The Workshop Theatre, NY    2005

Organisations:
Incumbo Theater Company

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Co-Op the Musical

Synopsis:
Unexpectedly, in an Oregon produce market, love blooms.
- nytheatre.com

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by Courtney Lauria And Matt Schatz, with music & lyrics by Matt Schatz. part of the ninth Annual edition of Thicker Than Water, A festival of new work by the members of the Artists collective Youngblood

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Genre:
Musical

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I Battled Lenny Ross

Synopsis:
A new musical about the toughest interview of Mike Wallace's career.

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by Anna Ziegler & Matt Schatz

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The 35th Marathon Of One-Act Plays

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Genre:
one act musical

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Love Trapezoid

Synopsis:
A musical comedy that examines art, technology, and everything we use to grieve the loss of someone that we love.
- nytheatre.com

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Book, Music & Lyrics By: Matt Schatz

1st Produced:
The Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St, Astoria (Queens), NY    10 Feb 2012

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Genre:
musical comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Minor Inconvenience, A

Synopsis:
Utilizing the same inventive format with new writers and new stories, this year's production boasts stories that feature: a personified Slurpee machine and a small-town girl dreaming of moving to the big city of Cincinnati, a convenience store owner and two of NYPD's finest who give advice to a love-struck loser, a sister and her run-away brother dealing with their parents' disappointment, a back room confessional Guru who yearns for his ex, a duo who host the hit reality show 'Convenience Store Makeover', a tribute to the working men, and an underage college student on a quest for his elixir of love-alcohol
- press release

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part of sixth Annual edition of Seven.11 Convenience theatre from Desipina & Co.; book by Rehana Mirza, lyrics by Matt Schatz, music by Naomi Lee

1st Produced:
Richmond Shepard Theatre, NY    2008

Organisations:
Desipina & Co

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Genre:
11 min play

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Oh My!

Synopsis:
musical comedy with projections and puppets about women and doctors in America in the late 1800s. This was a time when women wore corsets but were publishing books and riding bicycles with bloomers. And they and were being treated for the medical diagnosis of "hysteria" with the latest medical device-the vibrator.
- nytheatre.com

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book by Maggie Surovell; lyrics by Matt Schatz; music by Lily Maase

1st Produced:
Irt Theater, NY (Workshop Production)    16 Oct 2009

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Genre:
Musical comedy

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Oh, Gastronomy!

Oh, Gastronomy!
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written by by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho, et al.

1st Produced:
Humana Festival Of New American Plays At Actors Theatre Of Louisville    2012

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1st Published:
in Humana Festival 2012: the Complete Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville   978-1623840006

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Genre:
short play

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Pinning Hope

Synopsis:
Pinning Hope is a domestic, indie-folk musical about Barack, Michelle, and their search for that elusive American flag pin
- press release

Notes:
part of Obama Drama - Creative Destruction commissioned seven playwrights to respond to Barack Obama directly-to Dramatize what most inspired them About the man And his historic Presidential nomination. the resulting plays Are both diverse And electrifying.

1st Produced:
45th Street Theatre, NY    2009

Organisations:
Creative Destruction

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Genre:
short piece

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Tallest Building in the World, The

Synopsis:
What drives the quest to create the world's tallest building? In the 1960s everything seemed possible to the engineers and architect who conceived and built the World Trade Center complex. Based on actual events, the TALLEST BUILDING IN the WORLD examines what is gained and what is lost when we try to reach the sky.

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Workshop presented As part of EST's FIRST LIGHT FESTIVAL 2007.

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the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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