RESUME
about
Height: 6'1" | 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. In 2016, Matt was recognized 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
Halfway House (2017) | Principal | Norbridge Productions
A Grand Forest (2016) | Principal | Norbridge Productions
The Bottle (2015) | Principal | B2 Films
Commercial
T-Mobile | Featured | Vossler Media Group
Silverwood Scarywood | Principal | NxNW
Voiceover
Theatre
Teagan 2.0 (forthcoming) | Male Narrator | Audible
AT&T Wireless | Supporting | Pure Audio
Regional Cancer Center | Lead | NxNW
Regional Cancer Center | Lead | NxNW
Regional Cancer Center | Lead | NxNW
My Fair Lady | Col. Pickering | Steven Fogell | Seattle Musical Theatre
A Christmas Story, The Musical | The Old Man | Joanna Hardie | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Glengarry Glen Ross | Roma | Tom Challinor | Swinging Hammer Productions
Mary Poppins | George Banks | Ken Michels | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Twelfe Night | Malvolio | Tom Challinor | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Peter and the Starcatcher | Grempkin | Ken Michels | Bainbridge Performing Arts
The Merry Wives of Windsor | Master Page | Kristi Jacobson | Bainbridge Performing Arts
The Little Mermaid | Grimsby | Joanna Hardie | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage | Rev. Roger Penworthy-Pilks | Kristi Jacobson | Swinging Hammer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Peter Quince | Tom Challinor | Bainbridge Performing Arts
The Tempest | Antonio | Tom Challinor | Bainbridge Performing Arts
Snow Falling on Cedars | Coroner / Carl Heine, Sr. | Kate Carruthers | 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
Vocal Range: Baritone