Matt Porter Biography
Matt Porter is a writer, director, and sometimes actor. He is the co-director/co-writer/co-star of the Webby Award-winning Comedy Central web series NEW TIMERS, and was featured as part of the "New Faces: Creators" category at the Just For Laughs comedy festival. Matt was the Field Director for The Chris Gethard Show on TruTV, and has written and directed content for Funny or Die, TBS, Adult Swim, MTV, Sony, and others.
His web series Good Cop Great Cop, a collaboration with writer/cartoonist Charlie Hankin, has been screened at SXSW and was an official selection at the New York Television Festival. His narrative short films have screened at Tribeca, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Frameline, Hollyshorts, Short of the Week, and others. His short film DAMAGE won Best Narrative Short at the Riverrun International Film Festival in North Carolina, and his first feature film 5 DOCTORS, which he co-directed, co-wrote, and co-stars in, premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2016 and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures.
He is currently writing for Family Guy, as well as for an show for Peacock. He graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010.
