Dakin Matthews
Dakin Matthews (Adapter) Besides acting on stage in over 250 productions, including nine on Broadway (Camelot, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Iceman Cometh, Waitress the Musical, The Audience, Rocky, The Best Man, A Man for All Seasons, Shakespeare’s Henry IV) and on screen (250 TV appearances, including “Gilmore Girls,” “King of Queens,” and “The Gilded Age”), and 30 films (including True Grit, Bridge of Spies, Lincoln, and Zero Charisma), Mr. Matthews is an award-winning playwright (L. A. Critics Circle 2005 Award for The Prince of L.A.; Red Bull 2016 Short Play winner for ”Her Father’s Daughter”), Shakespearean dramaturge (Drama Desk Award for Henry IV), and script translator (including 5 Walker Reid Awards for translating Spanish Golden Age plays). He is also a Shakespeare scholar, the creator/host of the YouTube video series “Sheltering with Shakespeare,” a teacher of Shakespeare Masterclasses around the world, a former Artistic Director of three theatres, and an Emeritus Professor of English from Cal State East Bay.