Matthew Heiti is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright. As cowriter with
Ryan Ward of the film ''
Son of the Sunshine'', he was a
Genie Award nominee for
Best Original Screenplay
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at the
32nd Genie Awards
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Born and raised in
Sudbury,
Ontario
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, Heiti was educated at
Ryerson University
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and the
University of New Brunswick
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. He subsequently returned to Sudbury, where he has been a playwright-in-residence with the
Sudbury Theatre Centre
The Sudbury Theatre Centre is a professional theatre company, located in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Following an Ontario government report in 1967 which recommended the creation of a theatre company in Sudbury, local arts patrons Sonja D ...
since 2011. His plays include ''Black Dog: 4 vs the World'', ''Mucking in the Drift'', ''Aviatrix: An Unreal Story of Amelia Earhart'', ''Affidavit'',
[Matthew Heiti]
at doollee.com. ''Scar'',
[ ''Place to Be: The Nick Drake Project'',][ ''Just Beyond the Trees''][ and ''Plague''.
Heiti served as the playwright-in-residence for the Sudbury Theatre Centre for the 2011/2012 season. As playwright-in-residence at STC, Heiti ran the Playwrights’ Junction, a workshop for developing writers.
He published his ]debut novel
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, ''The City Still Breathing'', with Coach House Press
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in 2013.[ Shawn Syms]
"Book Review: The City Still Breathing, by Matthew Heiti"
''National Post
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'', October 25, 2013.
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Canadian male novelists
Canadian male stage actors
Canadian male film actors
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian novelists
Male actors from Greater Sudbury
Writers from Greater Sudbury
Living people
Toronto Metropolitan University alumni
University of New Brunswick alumni
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
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