The Awkward Years

Matthew trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and works as an actor, playwright and director. Credits as playwright include: Last Christmas (Dirty Protest/Theatre Clwyd, Edinburgh Fringe/Soho Theatre), Constellation Street (The Other Room), #YOLO (National Theatre Connections), The Knowledge (Royal Court/Dirty Protest), My Father’s Hands(Paines Plough, Come to Where I’m From), Lacuna (Three Streets Productions, New Wimbledon Studio), Real Human Being (Taking Flight). He was the recipient of the Best Playwright award at the Wales Theatre Awards 2015. Matthew has directed and curated a large number of writing events for Dirty Protest and number of short plays for various events for Sherman Cymru. He is a member of the artistic directorate of the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, directing many of their recent productions and he has taught acting, theatre studies and directed a broad range of theatre projects at a number of educational institutions across South Wales. Matthew is a core member of Welsh new writing collective Dirty Protest and is co-artistic director of True/Fiction Theatre.