Matteson Perry & Stacy Traub

Teaches at Writing Pad

Matteson Perry is a performer, two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam storytelling championship and a host of the Moth StorySlam in Los Angeles, and a screenwriter. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Modern Love, Playboy, McSweeney’s, and College Humor. Matteson’s memoir, “Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch,” based on his storytelling essays and his Modern Love piece was published by Scribner in May 2016 and has been picked by ABC News and People a best new book of 2016. His work has been featured on NPR and several podcasts, including Unfictional, Risk!, and Storyworthy. He has sold two scripts “Guidance”, about a high school counselor who starts lying to help a wayward teen, will star Seann William Scott and “Cops and Robots” to BCDF Pictures in New York. Matteson's one hour pilot script he recently sold to Warner Brothers is now in development.

Stacy Traub just finished a season showrunning BLACKISH for ABC and was a showrunner on THE REAL O'NEALS for two seasons. While writing and producing on GLEE (FOX) and TROPHY WIFE (ABC) and KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL (FOX), Stacy developed numerous pilots including, WASHINGTONIENNE (HBO), MIDDLE AGE RAGE (ABC), OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS (ABC), DIRTY BLONDES (FOX) and THE MASON TWINS (NBC). She also wrote on SPIN CITY (ABC), SUDDENLY SUSAN (NBC), and WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU (WB). Stacy also created and executive produced NOTES FROM THE UNDERBELLY, with Warner Brothers Studios, which ran for two seasons on ABC. Stacy began her career as a writer's assistant on MAD ABOUT YOU.