Matthew S. Hinton was born in the back seat of his great grandmother’s Posten Taxi in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He is a founding member of Gaslight Theatre Company; has authored several plays, including Quiet Cowboy and Linda Goes to Mars; and created and produced an eight-year series of original one-acts from regional playwrights.
Hinton is also an accomplished scholar of the life and work of Norman Mailer, with work appearing in The Mailer Review, Provincetown Arts (2018), and a chapter in Norman Mailer In Context (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Additionally, he has been an armchair journalist and news anchor at WVIA, an actor, and an audiobook narrator. He teaches writing and literature at Misericordia University (Dallas, PA).
His recent collection of one-acts, entitled Playroom (BLUE MOON, 2022) follows the same family through the unusual settings of their home while tracing dysfunction, pocket dimensions, and callbacks to dad jokes.
He dreams in analog.
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