Matt Barbot is a writer from Brooklyn, NY. He's very excited for Two River Theaters’ World Premiere production of El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom, which was a finalist in the 2013 Repertorio Español Nuestras Voces competition, and won the Kennedy Center's Darrel Ayers Award for Outstanding Student-Written Play for Young Audiences, as well as the Kennedy Center's Latinidad Award for Outstanding Play Written by a Student of Latino/Hispanic Heritage. His play Infallibility was produced as part of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Recently, his short play "A List of Some Shit I've Killed” was published as part of The Red Bull Theater's anthology Red Bull Shorts Volume III. He was recently a Playwright Observer at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's 2017 National Playwrights Conference. Matt received his MFA from Columbia University.