Matthew Wrather is an actor, singer, dancer, musician, composer, writer, director, and producer. His career, begun as a child in his native Los Angeles, has spanned two decades and three continents.
Recently, Matt appeared alongside Sam Waterson in Long Wharf Theatre’s production of Travesties and in the short film The Raft, starring Ed Asner. New York appearences include the FringeNYC production of KNB: The Romantical Comical Nautical Musical (review) and Fall Out in the underground Binge Festival.
He is currently producer-at-large with New Haven Theater Company, a revolutionary collective dedicated to redefining live theater for the audiences of the next generation. With NHTC, Matt has performed in storefronts, parking spaces, and city busses.
Matt was a Resident Artist in Long Wharf Theatre’s Next Stage program from 2006–2007.
For ten years, Matt was a member of Actors’ Repertory Theatre at Santa Monica Playhouse in his native Los Angeles, appearing in nearly one thousand performances of some four dozen productions and touring with the company internationally.
In LA, Matt collaborated with award-winning playwright Evelyn Rudie on book, music, and lyrics for two full-length works, the experimental musical dreamward and the LA hit Backstreet, an adaptation of Sholom Asch’s God of Vengeance, which played nine months on the Los Angeles stage.
Matt graduated from Yale in 2002, and after valiantly trying to hold down a civilian job, rededicated himself to performing full-time.