Matthew K. Begbie is a writer and
playwright from New York. He currently writes on ELSBETH on CBS.
He began his television career in the NBCUniversal Page Program where he worked for NBC’s Diversity & Inclusion Team and Saturday Night Live.
He later became a writer for Condé Nast, writing for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, Teen Vogue, and Glamour.
In 2019, he became a member of BuzzFeed’s inaugural fellowship class.
His debut play, Maid to Order, was awarded the 2012 Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Award. Maid to Order, as well as his plays Tuckered and The Capper Trap are available through Pioneer Drama Inc. In 2015, he wrote and staged a mixed-media theatrical adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close for Emerson College’s RareWorks Theatre Company.
He can most likely be found with a slice of pie.
