- 🏆 As a director, I won the Audience Award for Best Short at the Tribeca Film Festival. My work has also been honored by Cannes Lions and the Telly Awards.
- 🏆 As a writer, my scripts have won the Final Draft Big Break TV Award, the Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest, and were selected for the Black List, 1IN4 Coalition, and the WGAW Disabled Writers Committee’s Disability List. One of my TV pilots was also named The Black List’s script of the month.
- I was the showrunner and director of Hacking High School, a half-hour comedy series starring some of YouTube’s biggest influencers. Seen by millions around the world, it was hailed as “groundbreaking” by Paste Magazine.
- I’ve developed TV and Film projects with Shondaland, Bat Hat Harry, Flavor Unit Entertainment, and Vice, among many others.
- I was an in-house director and comedy executive at AwesomenessTV, where I oversaw dozens of projects from concept to production.
- My feature script Wannabe received a production grant from Chris Columbus, and its short adaptation premiered at Tribeca. IndieWire said, “it will make you swoon.”
- Outside of narrative work, I’ve written, directed and produced thousands of pieces of branded content and commercials. I’ve worked with companies such as Butterfinger, Nestle, IHOP, Dell, Intel, and Zappos. Two of my campaigns topped the Ad Age viral charts – the box office for advertising.
- I write articles about film, television, and screenwriting, including interviews with working writers and filmmakers.
- I was born and raised in NYC, and now live in Sherman Oaks with my wife, two feisty boys, and an extremely feisty puppy 🐶. I can be reached at info@matthewmanson.com.