Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the rigorous story-telling session THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW.  In its twenty years of existence, THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW has been performed internationally at the Romanian Theatre Festival of Sibiu, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Minnesota Fringe Festival, IGNITE Festival, Women Center Stage Festival and Impact Theatre Festival.  His story-monologues BIRDFEEDER, UNDERTWO AND THE WET ECHO where selected for the Best American Short Plays: 2007-2008, 2009-2010, and 2013-2014 anthologies.

Chapman’s story LATE BLOOMER was adapted into a short film, directed by Craig MacNeill.  An official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the short won the audience award for Best Short at the Lake Placid Film Festival and the Brown Jenkins Award at the 12th Annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.  Their second short HENLEY, based on the chapter THE HENLEY ROAD MOTEL from Chapman’s novel MISS CORPUS, was an official selection at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.  It was awarded Best Short Film at the 2011 Gen Art Film Festival and the 2011 Carmel Arts and Film Festival.  THE BOY, a feature-length adaptation of HENLEY co-written with director MacNeill, was produced by SpectreVision (Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Walter), in 2015.  Other film credits include co-scripting the segment THE TROUBLE WITH DAD for the horror anthology feature CHILLING VISIONS: 5 STATES OF FEAR, with director Glenn McQuaid.

Chapman currently teaches writing at the Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University.