This past Summer Matt has been invited back by The Oregon Festival of American Music (OFAM) to be Slick Fothergill in Girl Crazy. His past performances with the
company include starring roles as Tommy Albright in Brigadoon, and Will Parker in
Oklahoma!
Last Spring Matt performed in a national tour as Benjamin Franklin in the Lucille
Lortel 2011 Off-Broadway Nominee We The People, a rock musical about the
founding fathers.
He was recently featured in the New York Times as a part of the Family Opera
Initiative’s original libretto CAT the Opera. Soon after he was a soloist in the original
cast recording of Ian Strasfogel’s opera Il Musico. He also worked with Peter Flynn
the Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre on Kenny Finkle’s new play Penelope of
Ithaca.
At Ithaca, Matt worked with founder of Playwright’s Horizon’s Robert Moss, in the
title role of Cashel in the original production Cashel Byron’s Profession. He also
performed numerous roles including King Midas/Vertumnus in “Metamorphoses,”
Faria in The Count of Monte Cristo, and First Reporter as well as Floyd Collin’s US
in Floyd Collins. He has performed at Busch Gardens Europe and Grant’s Farm as
MC of the leading park show “This Is Oktoberfest!” In addition, he has performed
at numerous theatres and venues around Oregon playing such roles as Cinderella’s
Prince in “Into the Woods,” Leon Czolgosz in “Assassins,” and Richard Henry Lee
in “1776.”
Matt is an Equity Member and holds a BFA in Musical Theater from Ithaca College.

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