WEST END:

Matthew is the writer and director of Mr Bugg Presents, a theatre company specialising in creating totally original musicals. Their production of Miss Nightingale toured the UK five times, playing to over 50,000 people in 30 venues. It then transferred to the Vaults in London and from there transferred to the West End. It has been nominated for two Offie awards and voted into BritishTheatre.com's top 100 musicals of all time.

 

OTHER WEST END WORK:

Zorro;Gatsby: The Next Chapter; Dear Lupin; The Secret of Sherlock Holmes; Volcano; Cirque Berserk and Our Man in Havana.

 

TOURING WORK INCLUDES:

King Lear (ATG with Michael Pennington) Angelina Ballerina (UK and international Tour) The Handyman (with Timothy West);  Star Quality; Lark Rise to Candleford; Quartet; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Northanger Abbey; Jamaica Inn, Three Men In A Boat, numerous shows for the Agatha Christie Company as well as The Canterbury Tales and The Government Inspector for Northern Broadsides.

 

OTHER THEATRE WORK INCLUDES:

The Lord Of The Rings, The Tempest, All My Sons, The League of Youth, All Quiet on the Western Front, To Reach The Clouds, Angels Among The Trees, The Boy Who Fell Into A Book, The Day Kevin Came, The Mill On The Floss, Wonderful Tennessee, Polygraph (Nottingham Playhouse); Some like it Hotter (Watermill, Newbury) The Father (The Belgrade, Coventy);  The Invention of Love, Barbarians, Pat And Margaret, Secret Rapture (Salisbury Playhouse);  Vanity Fair (Northcott, Exeter); Amadeus, Northanger Abbey (Theatre Royal York); Double Indemnity, The Glass Menagerie (New Wolsey, Ipswich);  Rumpelstiltskin, Great Expectations, Duck (Unicorn Theatre);  Richard III, Uncle Vanya, the Duchess of Malfi, The Provoked Wife, Up On The Roof, Look At Me (Mercury Theatre, Colchester);  The True Life Fiction of Mata Hard, A Perfect Ganesh, Talent (Watford Palace Theatre) The Imposter (Plymouth Theatre Royal) The Firebird (Bolton, Octagon); Little Wolf’s Book of Badness (Hampstead)

 

OTHER WORK INCLUDES:

Matthew has volunteered for LGBTQI organisation Stonewall since the 1990s. In that time he has played an active and prominent role in campaigns for an equal age of consent and for equal marriage rights. He has also work as a diversity role model in UK schools.

 

Matthew is a keen supporter of new musical theatre and is the Northern Rep for Mercury Musicals Development and Musical Theatre Network. He is a judge for the Stiles and Drew Song Competition and also independently supports emerging Musical Theatre artists.

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