Biography
Will Matthews is an American writer, producer and occasional actor. He is best known for his long collaboration with Jeffrey Addiss, with whom he created and served as showrunner on the Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) and The Boroughs (2026).
Matthews and Addiss also wrote the screenplay and story for the animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) and the feature Life in a Year (2020). Matthews won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2020 for his work on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. An Amherst native, he has additional writing credits on short films and earlier television work.
