After serving as president of the University of Nottingham New Theatre, Matt trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating top of his class. Matt recently returned to RADA to take up post as Assistant Head of Lighting.

Recent Theatre/Opera includes:

Barbarians (Young Vic), Hamlet is Dead: No Gravity (Arcola); Lady Anna All At Sea (Park Theatre); Islands (New Diorama); Ant Street (ArcolaThis Much (or an Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marriage (Oval House); Scarlet (Southwark Playhouse); Islands (New Diorama and Underbelly); Divas (Rose Theatre and Pleasance); Light (Battersea Arts Centre); After Penelope (John Gielgud Theatre); Mrs Warren’s Profession (John Gielgud Theatre); Bear (Old Red Lion); A Christmas Carol (Old Red Lion) Sikes and Nancy, (UK Tour and Trafalgar Studios); Light (Barbican and European Tour, for LIMF and Theatre Ad Infinitum);Suffolk Stories (Theatre Royal, Bury St Emunds for Lubkinfinds); God’s Own Country (UK Tour for Fine Mess Theatre); Bear (Old Red Lion); Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Secret Cinema, The Troxy); Random (John Gielgud Theatre); Fishskin Trousers (Finborough Theatre) ** Offie Finalist – Best Lighting Designer; Hamlet (St Mary’s Theatre, Nottingham); Bedbound (Trinity Theatre, Kent); The Infant (Vivien Cox Theatre, Guildford); Bed (Nottingham Lakeside); Madame Butterfly (Leatherhead Theatre). Conferences/Concerts: TEDx London (The Roundhouse); The Songs of My Life (Garrick Theatre), Plug in The Lead (Leicester Square Theatre), Collaborations (St James Theatre). Whilst at RADA: Cole Porter’s High Society; Love for Love; In the Summerhouse; Yerma. For the National Student Drama Festival; Orphans; Bluebird; This Wide Night; After The End; Proof **Stage Electrics Design Award Winner; Talking to Terrorists; Cast Aside.

Matt is also a regular visiting artist at LAMDA, designs include: Have a Nice Life; Women of Troy; But Not As We Know It; The Walworth Farce; Joseph K; The Cagebirds; Land Without Words.