Matt Foss received his MFA in acting from Chicago’s Roosevelt University and Ph.D. in theatre studies and directing from Wayne State University in Detroit. Professional credits include Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Oracle Theatre, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, American Blues Theatre, The Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and Tipping Point Theatre. In 2016, his touring production of The Glass Menagerie performed at Russia’s Moscow Art Theatre. He adapted and directed Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for Oracle Productions in Chicago in 2014. The production received Chicago Jeff Award Nominations for Outstanding Production, Director, Ensemble, and won for best new adaptation. In 2012 his production of Six Characters at Iowa State University received the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival’s (KCACTF) National Award for Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Director of a Play. In 2019, his adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front received the Kennedy Center’s National David Mark Cohen playwrighting award. He was a recipient of the National ATHE/KCACTF Prize for Innovative Teaching in 2013 and teaches at the University of Toledo.