Mr Matt Kirton

Job: Lecturer in Creative Writing

School/department: School of Humanities and Performing Arts

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: matt.kirton@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Matt is a Screenwriter and Lecturer in Creative Writing.

An ITV/Red Planet Prize finalist and Liverpool Everyman Young Writers’ Programme graduate, he has had plays produced in London, Liverpool and at the Edinburgh Fringe.

To date, Matt has developed original TV shows with Green Door Pictures, Lionsgate UK, Expectation Entertainment, Two Cities Television, Leopard Pictures and Red Planet Pictures. In 2020, Matt received a script and series bible commission with FilmNation TV UK for DESCENT.

Research group affiliations

Institute of English

Research interests/expertise

Screenwriting

Areas of teaching

Creative Writing

Qualifications

MA Screenwriting (Liverpool John Moores University)

Honours and awards

Winner: Write To Greenlight competition 2016 for pilot script Sin Of God (Green Door Pictures, Lionsgate UK)

Projects

HAPPINESS (Leopard Pictures) - Dec '22

THE MOTHER OF ALL MURDERS (Two Cities Television) - Nov '22

DESCENT (Film Nation TV UK) - Aug '20 to Sept '23

SIN OF GOD (Expectation Entertainment) - July '18 to Apr '20

THEATRE

THE VIOLINIST (Kinky Fish at London Theatre, New Cross; Jurys Inn, Edinburgh) - 2013

THE DAILY TIMES (Unity Theatre, Liverpool) - 2011

SHORT FILM

MICHAEL (2015)

HAPPY RETURNS (2013)

CLING FILM (2008)