Matthew Jellison

Matthew Jellison is a writer, actor, educator, and native New Yorker. His plays tend to live in a space where inner fantasies scrape up against the real world. He is absolutely beaming to be a 2024-25 DGF Playwriting Fellow. Matthew is the author of the play cycle, the giants. the giants, parts one and two premiered at Loft 227 in winter of 2016 and he played the role of Elliot. the giants, part three has been either developed or presented with Barns Arts Collective, Freshground Pepper, The Lark, and Town Stages. Matthew was the 2012-13 Kenan Playwriting Fellow at the Kennedy Center and has developed plays at The Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Signature Theatre DC, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Woodward Residency. Matthew serves as the Associate Director of Education at Writopia Lab, a literacy nonprofit, where gets to work with some extraordinary kids and teens as they develop their own writing. Matthew holds a BFA in Acting from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts. While there, Matthew started writing plays for fun that his friends and him could act in during their spare time. He’s currently developing a play to perform opposite his dad, an actor. He’s happiest making new plays with people he loves.