Category Archives: Matt on Stage

I’m very excited to announce my last show at UCLA. Antwone Fisher, the sub­ject (and writer) of Denzel Washington’s 2002 movie of that same name, is retelling the story of his life in the­atri­cal form, using actors from UCLA’s grad pro­gram to por­tray the cast of hus­tlers, sail­ers, neigh­bor­hood kids, and fam­ily mem­bers that populate […]

I’m very happy to announce my second-to-last show at UCLA—not because it’s the second-to-last, but because it’s a fas­ci­nat­ing play and should be an inter­est­ing pro­duc­tion, directed by a mem­ber of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, J. Ed Araiza. We’re doing it with min­i­mal production—just light and sound, really—and it will be very view­pointsy and artsy. For […]

What’s funny about the great reces­sion? It’s 2008, and the res­i­dents of “The Versailles,” a huge lux­ury condo com­plex plopped down in the mid­dle of inner-city Philly, band together when their land­lord goes AWOL, their neigh­bors start defect­ing, and the power goes off. Both a hilar­i­ous satire and a fas­ci­nat­ing study of what hap­pens to […]

I’m glad to announce that we’re doing The Cherry Orchard at UCLA, directed by Mel Shapiro, the head of grad­u­ate act­ing at the school of Theater, Film and Television. It’s a fan­tas­tic show and I hope you can see it! UCLA School of Theater Film and Television presents Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD directed by Mel Shapiro […]

Everybody has been telling me to let them know when I’m in a show at UCLA. Well, here it is! And what’s more, it’s a musi­cal (the first one the grad­u­ate actors at UCLA have ever done. I’m glad to announce that next month, you can come see me sing, tap-dance, play piano, and—oh yes—act a little […]

I’m very excited to be work­ing on my first full-length project with my class­mates at UCLA. If you live out here, I hope you will con­sider com­ing out to see some very tal­ented actors. And also me. DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE by Sarah Ruhl directed by Alex Levy fea­tur­ing Lauren Dunagan, Josephine Keefe, Nina Law, Catherine Leong, Colin […]

I’m pleased to announce that I’m appear­ing (and play­ing a lit­tle piano!) in a read­ing of It Matters Where You’re Buried, a new cabaret pray about chanteuse and night­club hostess-to-the-stars Brick Top, at La MaMa ETC in the east vil­lage, as a part of their read­ing series Shadow. Here are the details: IT MATTERS WHERE […]

Apparently, when it rains it pours. In addi­tion to rock­ing Christopher Carter Sanderson’s KNB: The Musical (four more per­for­mances as of this writ­ing!), I’m going to be appear­ing in Fall Out in the Binge Festival, a Working Man’s Clothes joint. Our play, Fall Out is a 10 minute comic bro­mance about the apoc­a­lypse. I’ve been […]

I’m so excited to announce my first NYC show, an new work called KNB: The Musical, writ­ten, com­posed, and directed fel­low Yalie Christopher Carter Sanderson. I’m in the cho­rus (another first!), and it’s been a great way to start off work­ing in a new city and meet incred­i­ble, tal­ented new peo­ple. If you’re in the […]