Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic, screenwriter and playwright currently based in Sydney, Australia.

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><p>Matthew Clayfield is a 25-year-old journalist, critic, screenwriter and playwright.</p><p>Born and raised in Mount Gambier, South Australia, Matthew has since lived all over the country, attending university on Queensland's Gold Coast, working as a freelancer in Melbourne, Victoria, and moving to New South Wales in 2008, where he worked on&nbsp;<em>The Australian</em>&nbsp;newspaper until June 2010. He spent the latter part of that year travelling through the US, Mexico and Cuba, working as a freelance foreign correspondent. He is currently based in Sydney and co-edits the website<a href="http://www.disposablewords.net/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>Disposable Words</em></a>. You can follow him on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/mclayfield" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; ">Twitter</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.facebook.com/matthewclayfield" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; ">Facebook</a>.</p><p>His criticism covers topics including cinema, theatre, dance, opera, visual art, comedy, books and restaurants, and has appeared in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sensesofcinema.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>Senses of Cinema</em></a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.metromagazine.com.au/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>Metro Magazine</em></a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.realtimearts.net/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>RealTime</em></a>, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>Australian Book Review</em></a>,&nbsp;<em>The Australian</em>, and on his personal blog, Esoteric Rabbit, which ran from 2002 to 2009. He was editor of&nbsp;<em>The Australian</em>'s Out &amp; About arts listings between December 2009 and June 2010.</p><p>In 2007, he covered the Australian election for&nbsp;<a href="http://vibewire.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; ">Vibewire Youth Inc.</a>'s ElectionTracker project, following former Prime Minister John Howard on the campaign trail for a week and live-blogging election night from the National Tally Room in Canberra.</p><p>As a filmmaker, Matthew's&nbsp;<a href="http://matthewclayfield.com/content/stage-and-screen/firelight/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>Firelight</em></a>, a short essay film, screened at the Brisbane International Film Festival in 2006, and the Melbourne Underground Film Festival screened a retrospective of his work that same year as a part of their avant-garde sidebar. As a screenwriter, Matthew's&nbsp;<a href="http://matthewclayfield.com/content/stage-and-screen/life-on-mars/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>How My Next Door Neighbour Discovered Life on Mars</em></a>&nbsp;was produced in 2005 and has since screened on every continent in the world including Antarctica. His screenplay&nbsp;<a href="http://matthewclayfield.com/content/stage-and-screen/frog/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>Frog</em></a>&nbsp;was produced in 2009 and premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2010. As a playwright, Matthew's one-act play&nbsp;<a href="http://matthewclayfield.com/content/stage-and-screen/the-ides/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><em>The Ides</em></a>&nbsp;won the State Theatre Company of South Australia's Young Playwright of the Year Award in 2003. His most recent stage play,&nbsp;<em>Lord Jones Is Dead</em>, was completed in 2010 and will be produced as a film in 2011.</p><p>Matthew was a national finalist in the Rostrum Voice of Youth public speaking competition from 2001 to 2003 and was runner-up twice. He was awarded a $20,000 Nescafé Big Break in 2003. He was a shortlisted finalist for Young Journalist of the Year in the 2009 News Limited News Awards.</p><p>He holds a Bachelor of Film and Television from Bond University and a Masters of Journalism from the University of Queensland.</p><p>He would like to be a freelance citizen of the world when he grows up and dislikes writing about himself in the third person.</p></span></p>

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