Matthew McDuffie

Matthew McDuffie has been a professional screenwriter for thirty years and has written for HBO, Showtime, ABC, CBS, Fox, Lifetime, USA and Warner Bros., and has worked with the producers of Six Feet Under, Rome, ER, Ocean’s Eleven, Shameless, and Saving Private Ryan. His movie, Burning Bodhi, which he wrote and directed, was the centerpiece film of the Austin Film Festival in 2015. He wrote the screenplay for The Face of Love, starring Annette Bening and Ed Harris, with the film’s director, Arie Posin, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. 

He was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for his teleplay of Anne Rule’s account of Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me. He also created the story for Lifetime’s Odd Girl Out, adapted Meg Wolitzer’s, Surrender, Dorothy for Diane Keaton, and turned the novel, A Cool, Dry Place, into a film starring Vince Vaughn. Now a Professor of Practice at the University of New Mexico, he has taught introductory, advanced and graduate levels of screenwriting for more than twenty years.