Matt Manfredi is an American
screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
.
Early life and education
Manfredi is from
Palos Verdes, California,
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retrieved September 9, 2012 the son of Nancy and George Manfredi.
November 21, 2004 His mother is a human resource manager for the
Torrance, California
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city government and his father was a private lawyer in Los Angeles. He graduated from
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
and also has a master's degree in screenwriting from the
American Film Institute
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in Los Angeles.
While in college he joined an
improv comedy
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group where he met his future writing partner
Phil Hay. He is of
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
descent.
Filmography
All of his film screenwriting work has been with writing partner
Phil Hay. Their technique for joint screenwriting is to each write separate scenes and then trade them to each other for further rewrites.
Personal life
As a widower in 2004, he married his second wife Casey Greenfield, daughter of news correspondent and author
Jeff Greenfield.
They divorced less than a year later.
[New York Daily News: "CNN legal eagle Jeffrey Toobin in baby mama drama - with daughter of CBS News' Jeff Greenfield" BY GEORGE RUSH]
February 18, 2010 He has since remarried and has one daughter and one son.
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20th-century births
21st-century American screenwriters
American male screenwriters
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Palos Verdes, California
Year of birth missing (living people)
Screenwriters from California
Brown University alumni
AFI Conservatory alumni
American writers of Italian descent
21st-century American male writers