Matt Slaybaugh: Finally, This Is For You

Offering an inspiring opening to the evening, Matt Slaybaugh holds forth on the charms and trials of the imagination, the difficulties of creativity, and the absurdity of writing poetry.

Slaybaugh is the Artistic Director of Available Light Theatre. His writing and directing of new plays and original works for Available Light and the BlueForms Theatre Group has been lauded by American Theatre magazine, New York Press, NYtheatre dot com, the Central Ohio Theatre Critics Circle, the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards, and the Victoria BC Times Colonist. He serves on the Greater Columbus Creative Cultural Commission, teaches at Columbus College of Art & Design and the Columbus State Community College Life Long Learning Institute, and writes for the Agit Reader, and Indie Columbus dot com.

TEDxColumbus: Live Blog: Matt Slaybaugh:  October 20, 2009

Matt Slaybaugh opened the evening with spoken word poetry.

He gave us a spark of creativity and lit up the stage with his passion.

He made the audience laugh and sigh with perfect sentences like this:

Pick something that you love, and do it like a bad habit for ten years.