Mathew Klickstein

Mathew Klickstein was born in 1981 and grew up in Lake Forest, California.

While still in college, Mathew established the first official Slam Poetry competition to be held on an American college campus, and his self-published novel, This Book is Called Counter, quickly became an underground phenomenon across the country.

Immediately after receiving his BFA from the University of Southern California's undergraduate screenwriting program in 2003, he co-created and produced a weekly television show for National Lampoon Networks called Collegetown, USA. He was also head writer of Collegetown during its first season.

Thereafter, Mathew knocked around in the world of feature film production, and all the while saw his articles printed in such publications as: OC Weekly, Fade-In Magazine (hailed as "the Best Movie Magazine of the Year" by the Washington Post during his tenure), Alternative Press Magazine, and France's Le Magazine Double.

In 2006, Mathew became the Editor-In-Chief of Entertainment Today, Southern California's oldest free weekly paper (est. 1967). He retired from that post in early 2007, after which he sold his first screenplay to a small Warner Bros.-based production company. Concurrent to this, Mathew also optioned a screenplay to a young independent producer. During the same period of Mathew's script sales, he was invited to assist a prominent Newport Beach couple pen their harrowing WWII memoirs.

In early 2008, Mathew conceptualized and co-founded clothing line Better Bacon Apparel, a hybrid experiment in fashion that melds the worlds of "high fashion" and "outsider art." The line is on sale in boutiques around the globe, has been involved in various high-profile events such as: the 2008 Oscars, the LA Lakers End-of-the-Season Party, and the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, and was featured in Men's Vogue and Elle Magazine.

Meanwhile, his feature-length documentary Act Your Age, chronicling the world-famous Kids of Widney High - a group of young developmentally disabled adults in a rock band - over the last ten years, is in the final stages of post-production and will be released in 2009.

Having spent the last five months in Portland, Oregon - where, amongst other creative endeavors, he contributed pieces to the town's revered alternative weekly, Willamette Week - he has been tapped by author Laurie Graff (You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs) to join her in New York and work on adapting to screenplay her latest novel, light-hearted romantic comedy The Shiksa Syndrome, published through Doubleday.

Oh, he is also the writer of Against the Dark, which has the dubious distinction of being Steven Seagal's first horror film, released through Sony Pictures.