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

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at the

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in 2012. Born and raised in Sudbury,

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, Heiti was educated at

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and the

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. He subsequently returned to Sudbury, where he has been a playwright-in-residence with the

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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

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, ''The City Still Breathing'', with

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in 2013. Shawn Syms
"Book Review: The City Still Breathing, by Matthew Heiti"
''

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'', October 25, 2013.

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