AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

For La Cage Aux Folles – West End

PRODUCTION

DIRECTOR

VENUE / COMPANY

CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (costumes)

Terry Johnson

West End / Menier Chocolate Factory

EVITA

Bill Kenwright and Bob Thompson

Kenwright Ltd UK and International tour

MOST RECENT THEATRE

A SONG AT TWILIGHT

Nikolai Foster

Colchester Mercury Theatre / Ian Fricker Ltd UK Tour

THEATRE

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY

Philip Wilson

Salisbury Playhouse

THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG

Fiona Laird

Menier Chocolate Factory

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW

Philip Wilson

Salisbury Playhouse

SHADOWLANDS

Michael Barker Cavan

West End

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Rupert Goold

West End

ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Philip Wilson

Salisbury Playhouse

BLACKBIRD

Jeremy Herrin

Market Theatre of Johannesburg

SPEAKING LIKE MAGPIES (nominated for the TMA Best Design Award)

Rupert Goold

Royal Shakespeare Company & West End

IN PRAISE OF LOVE

Philip Wilson

Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre

CLOUDS

Jennie Darnell

No. 1 Tour

LARKIN WITH WOMEN

Brian Brady

West Yorkshire Playhouse

PRESENCE

Simon Stokes

Plymouth Theatre Royal

ONE UNDER

Jennie Darnell

Tricycle Theatre

ON THE CEILING

Jennie Darnell

West End & Birmingham Rep

THE GREEN MAN

Simon Stokes

Bush Theatre & Theatre Royal Plymouth

U.S AND THEM

THE DEAD EYE BOY

Both Jennie Darnell

Both Hampstead Theatre

DEADEYE

Janet Steel

Soho Theatre & Birmingham Rep, Kali Theatre Company

BELLS & CHAOS

Janet Steel and Poonam Brah

Southwark Playhouse and Birmingham Rep (Door), Kali Theatre Company

PAPER THIN

Janet Steel

Kali Theatre Company

SUMMER LIGHTNING

ARCADIA

Both Rupert Goold

Both Theatre Royal Northampton

Other work at Birmingham Rep

BEHZTI

Janet Steel

GETTING TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN

Laurie Samson

SWAMP CITY

Ed Robson

KATHARINE de SOUZA

Gwenda Hughes

Other work at the New Vic Theatre, Stoke

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

DANCING AT LUGHNASA

BROKEN GLASS

OFFICE SUITE

FOUR NIGHT IN KNARESBOROUGH

All Gwenda Hughes

ALL THAT TROUBLE WE HAD

Laurie Samson

Other work at Watford Palace Theatre

NEVILLE’S ISLAND

A TASTE OF HONEY

Both Richard Beecham

THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Laurence Till

ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR

Laurie Samson

CHARLEY’S AUNT

Tim Luscombe

Also Nuffield Theatre, Southampton

Other work at Salisbury Playhouse

AMY’S VIEW

Natalie Wilson

And Theatre Royal, Northampton

CONFUSIONS

Danny Slater

And Theatre Royal Bath

SUMMER LIGHTNING

THE END OF THE AFFAIR

And Bridewell

HABEUS CORPUS

All Rupert Goold

Other work Plymouth Theatre Royal

ROYAL SUPREME

BLOOD RED SAFFRON YELLOW

MUSIK

THE IMPOSTER

All Jennie Darnell

Other Theatre includes:

CHARLEY’S AUNT

PRIVATE LIVES

Both Richard Beecham

Both Northcott Theatre Exeter

MARNIE

Sean O’Connor

Haymarket Basingstoke & Chester Gateway

OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD

Caroline Hall

Edinburgh Lyceum

HAMLET

Stephen Powell

National Theatre Education staged in Brixton Prison

WOMAN IN MIND

Penny Ciniewicz

Theatre Royal York

DRACULA

Penny Ciniewicz

Cheltenham Everyman

TWELFTH NIGHT

John Retallack

Oxford Stage Company

HAMLET

John Retallack

Oxford Stage Company

ROMEO AND JULIET

Rupert Goold

Greenwich Theatre & tour

POW!

Penny Ciniewicz

Paines Plough

OPERA INCLUDES

II POMO D’ORO

Rupert Goold

Batignano Opera Festival

DON PASQUALE

Cynthia Buchan

Scottish Opera Go Round

TELEVISION INCLUDES

SERIOUSLY FUNNY (Costumes)

Channel 4 Television

OTHER

Matthew trained at the Glasgow School of Art in textile design and won various awards including ‘The Royal Society of Arts Young Designer’, two awards for excellence in design from the Japanese Fashion Foundation and a traveling bursary to Milan as one of the best graduates of the year.  After several years working as a textile designer, both freelance and as senior designer with Stoddard Sekers Ltd, he changed career to Theatre Design with the help of an Arts Council Trainee bursary at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich where productions included FOREIGN LANDS, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, UNDER MILK WOOD, SONG OF THE SEA, THE UNEXPECTED GUEST and SEASCAPE, a cycle of four plays for special needs schools.