Matt is a multi award winning Australian director, actor, writer and dramaturg with a diverse body of work. Productions include contemporary and classical shows across a range of forms, styles and scales, cross-cultural collaborations, work for audiences of all ages and theatre projects promoting social development. 

Matt's career has included positions as Head of New Work at Melbourne Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Barking Gecko Theatre Company, Resident Artist at Bell Shakespeare, Founding Associate Member of Moogahlin Performing Arts, Core Company Member at Sport For Jove and Senior Lecturer for the BA (Acting) at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

 
Matt trained as an actor at WAAPA. He has subsequently trained with Anne Bogart at SITI company in New York, has been a member of the Melbourne Festival Directors Lab and has been in constant professional development through ongoing training in various theatre modalities.

 

As a director Matt has made formally eclectic work for some of Australia’s great companies including Barking Gecko, Bell Shakespeare, Black Swan, BREC, The Last Great Hunt, Melbourne Theatre Company, Monkey Baa, Performing Lines, Poetry In Action, Shaman productions, Sport For Jove, and the WA Academy of Performing Arts. Work has toured Australia, the USA, Europe and Africa. Awards won as director and dramaturg include PAWA, Glug, Helpmann, AWGIE and Green Room Awards. Click on shows for specific productions, with details of awards, nominations and select reviews.

As an actor Matt has worked for major and indy companies around the country including Bell Shakespeare, Black Swan, Browns Mart Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Mooghalin Performing Arts, New Theatre, Red Dust, Siren Theatre, Suck it and See, Tamarama Rock Surfers, Theatre of Image, Sport For Jove, and Prompt Theatre. Screen credits include feature film and TV appearances. For ABC radio Matt has voiced numerous short stories, novels and radio series.

As a writer Matt has a number professional credits. His theatre in education scripts for Bell Shakespeare and Poetry In Action have been viewed by many hundreds of thousands of young people over two decades.

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Matt is a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow for which he travelled to Vanuatu and London to study Theatre for Development. He has used these skills a resident director in numerous marginalised communities. This has included extensive work in juvenile justice centres nationally, exploring theatre with the homeless in Sydney and developing theatre programs through residencies in remote communities Australia-wide. 
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