Matt Nagin

Matt Nagin is the author of five books. His books have been featured at The Opelika Book Festival, Books By The Bay Festival, and The Impact Book Festival. His humor book, Do Not Feed The Clown, published by Tenth Street Press, obtained terrific reviews and reached #249 in Dark Humor on Amazon. His latest book, the short story collection, The Book of Outcasts, has also obtained superb reviews and reached #200 in Humorous Literary Fiction on Amazon.

Matt also published three poetry books, Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight, Feast of Sapphires and Notes From The Bonfire. Kirkus Reviews described Matt's poetry as “powerful verse from a writer of real talent.” Matt's poem “If We Are Doomed,” won The Spirit First Editor’s Choice Award. A short story, “The Failure,” made The Best of Across The Margin 2021. He has had writing showcased in The Humor Times, The Satirist, Points In Case, The Higgs-Weldon and The New York Post. He's also had fiction and poetry anthologized in he Rabbithole: Vol 5. and New York's Best Emerging Poets.

As an actor, Matt's made many TV and film appearances, including in the film Tango Shalom, on the Discovery crime drama Street Justice: The Bronx, and in the hit Amazon Prime show Hunters. As a standup, Matt performed on The Dr. Steve Show, was an opening act for Robert Klein and Yannis Pappis, among others, and performed a one man show at The Edinburgh Comedy Festival. Matt now headlines venues throughout the Southeast. In addition to the above, Matt wrote and directed the short film Inside Job, which won several awards on the festival circuit, including Best Short at The Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes and Best Supporting Actor at The Nice International Film Festival.

Matt has appeared on numerous podcasts and radio programs, such as The New York City Crime Report, REELTalk With Audrey Russo, The Ed Tyll Show, He Said What, Kill The Cat Radio and The Dean Andrews Podcast. He's also obtained press in numerous outlets, among them NY Press, Real Creative Magazine, Riviera Insider, Times Herald-Record, The Jewish Chronicle, and Stagebuddy. He's further long been involved with charitable organization such as The Gotham Comedy Foundation, which brings comedians into hospitals and senior centers, and The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, which recently granted him The Mission Award.