Meet Matthew St. Amand: The Playwright Behind Shelter in Place!

Matthew St. Amand is a life-long resident of Windsor.  Over the past thirty years, his short fiction has appeared in The Toronto Reivew of International Writing, Opium Magazine, FRiGG Magazine, as well as numerous online publications. 

His prose poetry has appeared in The North American Review, Agni and Phoebe.  His books include a collection of short fiction titled, As My Sparks Fly Upward (2004), a volume of poetry, Forever & a Day (2004), a suspense novel, Randham Acts (2006), and a comic novel, Loitering With Intent to Mope (2009).  His blog, Inside the Hotdog Factory, spans 740 posts of corporate and political satire, dating back to 2005.

Shelter In Place is Matthew's fifth theatrical production, preceded by Dorian (2008), Shine On You Crazy Diamond (2013), The Uncanny Valley (2015), Moon Over Endor (2017), directed by Mark Lefebvre and Rob Tymec, respectively.  Shelter is Matthew's first production with Post Productions.  His next play, Negatunity, is tentatively scheduled as part of an upcoming Post Productions season. 

When not obsessing over the words and actions of people who never existed, Matthew lives in LaSalle with his wife and two young sons and earns his living as a technical writer in an automotive engineering firm.

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