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about
Height: 6'0" | Eye Color: Blue | Hair Color: Salt & Pepper
Matt's background includes theatre, voiceovers, commercials, improv, film/TV and modeling. He's been featured in spots for T-Mobile and AT&T, and has performed in over a dozen stage productions in the Seattle area. Most recently, Matt appears in the series pilot Uprising (2021) and series Hetero (2021), and in the forthcoming feature film, Ingress (2022). He has earned recognition as Best Actor in a Non-musical (Hon. Mention) and Best Actor in a Musical (Hon. Mention) by the west Puget Sound newspaper, the Kitsap Sun, for his performances in Glengarry Glen Ross (Roma) and A Christmas Story, the Musical (The Old Man). He studied drama at Stanford, and co-founded both the Stanford Improvisors and Seattle's Improsia.
Selected EXPERIENCE
Film & TV
Ingress (2022) | Supporting | Rachel Noll James, dir. | Cosmic Egg Productions
Uprising (2021) | Supporting | Courtney G. Jones, dir. | Rogue Seahorse Media
Hetero (2021) | Supporting | Bentley Eldridge & Kendall Kieras, dirs. | Third Charm Films
Chicken Choice 2020 (2020) | Lead | Will Wright, dir. | Will Wright Productions
Halfway House (2017) | Featured | Bentley Eldridge, dir. | Norbridge Productions
A Grand Forest (2016) | Supporting | Bentley Eldridge, dir. | Norbridge Productions
The Bottle (2015) | Supporting | Brendan Bennett, dir. | B2 Films
Commercial
T-Mobile | Featured | Vossler Media Group
Silverwood Scarywood | Principal | Tomas Guzman, dir. | NxNW
Voiceover
Heist at the Bank of the Black Ox (2021) | Lead | Nels Challinor
The Bright Days of Our Youth (audio play) | Supporting | B. Danzig, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
The Wind in the Willows (audio play) | Badger (Lead) | J. Green, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Teagan 2.0 (forthcoming) | Male Narrator | Audible
In the Drawing Room | Lead | Miranda Ray, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
AT&T Wireless | Principal | Pure Audio
Regional Cancer Center | Principal | NxNW
Regional Cancer Center | Principal | NxNW
Regional Cancer Center | Principal | NxNW
Theatre
Mamma Mia | Harry | Troy Wageman, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
My Fair Lady | Col. Pickering | Steven Fogell, dir. | Seattle Musical Theatre
A Christmas Story, The Musical | The Old Man | Joanna Hardie, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Glengarry Glen Ross | Roma | Tom Challinor, dir. | Swinging Hammer Productions
Mary Poppins | George Banks | Ken Michels, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Twelfe Night | Malvolio | Tom Challinor, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Peter and the Starcatcher | Grempkin | Ken Michels, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
The Merry Wives of Windsor | Master Page | Kristi Jacobson, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
The Little Mermaid | Grimsby | Joanna Hardie, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage | Rev. Roger Penworthy-Pilks | Kristi Jacobson, dir. | Swinging Hammer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Peter Quince | Tom Challinor, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
The Tempest | Antonio | Tom Challinor, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Snow Falling on Cedars | Coroner / Carl Heine, Sr. | Kate Carruthers, dir. | Bainbridge Performing Arts
improv
Improsia | Troupe Member | Seattle
Stanford Improvisors | Founding Member | Stanford
Training
Auditioning for the Camera Workshop | Jodi Rothfield, CSA
Scene Study | Wilson Milam
Shakespeare Intensive | Wilson Milam
Vocal Training | Chris DiStefano
Vocal Training | Lisa Mandelkorn
Advanced Improvisation | Patricia Ryan | Stanford Dept. of Drama
Improvisation | Patricia Ryan | Stanford Dept. of Drama
Musical Theatre Workshop | Dept. Staff | Stanford Dance Dept.
Fundamentals of Acting III | Patricia Ryan | Stanford Dept. of Drama
Fundamentals of Acting II | Patricia Ryan | Stanford Dept. of Drama
Fundamentals of Acting I | Patricia Ryan | Stanford Dept. of Drama
Special Skills
Accents: British (RP), Cockney, Southern, East European, Texas, New York
Languages: Dutch (cocktail chatter), German (rusty)
Instruments: Piano, guitar
Vocal Range: Baritone