Matthew Lopez is the author of The Whipping Man, one of the most celebrated and widely-produced new American plays of the last decade. The Legend of Georgia McBride premiered in New York last fall at MCC Theater following a world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where Matthew is serving as the theatre’s inaugural Playwriting Fellow. Other works include Somewhere, Reverberation, The Sentinels and Zoey’s Perfect Wedding. He holds new play commissions from Hartford Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Geffen Playhouse and South Coast Rep. Matthew was a writer on the HBO series The Newsroom and is currently writing the film Dr. Q for Disney and Plan B, for whom he also wrote the screen adaptation of Spanish novelist Javier Marias’ Your Face Tomorrow trilogy.