Matt Pelfrey

• Visiting Assistant Professor
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Biography

Matt Pelfrey MFA ’05 was a member of the first class to graduate from UCLA’s three-year MFA playwriting program, His work has been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and South Africa, and he was a recent winner of the Back Stage Garland Award for playwriting. He adapted John Ball’s “In the Heat of the Night” for Godlight Theatre Company in New York, where he serves as a resident playwright. He is also writer-in-residence at Furious Theatre Company.

Pelfrey’s plays include “Cockroach Nation,” “Terminus Americana,” “Honkies with Attitude,” “Gore Hounds,” “Drive Angry,” “FrEAk StORm,” “Jerry Springer is God,” “Monkey” and “A Feast of Famine.”