MJT
HARRY POTTER AND THE CUrsed CHILD
Play (Current)
Broadway
Matthew is currently playing the title role of Harry Potter in the Tony Award-Winning Broadway blockbuster Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre, the former home of the show that brought Matthew to the States in 2010--Spiderman: Turn off the Dark. The show opened in 2018 to rave reviews and is still playing to sold out houses. Matthew was a part of the play's remounting into a single 3hr show, which opened for performances on November the 12th 2024.
Director: John Tiffany
Writer: Jack Thorne. John Tiffany, J.K Rowling
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ:
DEFYING GRAVITY
CONCERT
AD EVENTS / MJT ENT MALTA PHIL
In September 2024, Matthew produced, directed and performed in a concert celebrating the timeless works of beloved 3-time academy award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz at the MCC in Malta. The show featured Stephen Schwartz himself with tales of his compositions and his artistic journey, with scores expanded from Stephen's world famous stage and film scores, all played by Malta’s internationally recognized National Orchestra - the 80+ piece Malta Philharmonic. Matthew brought together an all star cast including UK theatre legend John Owen Jones, Broadway's Michael McCorry Rose, Maltese Pop artists Destiny and Ira Losco, internationally renowned tenor Joseph Calleja, and his producing partner and partner in life: Keri René Fuller. The concert was conducted by Maestro Ian MacGregor.
ACCUSEd
season 2
TELEVISION
FOX / SONY / HULU
Matthew returns for Season 2 of the popular anthology series “Accused” from Executive Producers Howard Gordon and Daniel Pearle alongside Academy Award nominee Debra Winger, Mercedes Ruhl and Christine Ebersole in “Margot’s Story". This hour long episode follows Margot, a widow, who finds herself in court after getting involved with her dance instructor's shady dealings.
Director: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Daniel Pearle
Producer: Howard Gordon, Daniel Pearle
ACCUSEd
TELEVISION
FOX / SONY / HULU
ACCUSED is based on the BBC’s BAFTA-winning crime anthology, in which each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial, the drama is told from the defendant’s point of view. In ACCUSED, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back.
Director: Sameh Zaobi
Writer: Arlo Gordon, Daniel Pearle
Summer of rockets
TELEVISION
BBC / Little Island
15 years after playing Prince Johnnie in Stephen Polikoff's Emmy Award Winning 'The Lost Prince' Matthew joins Timothy Spall, Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, Linus Roach and Lily Sakofsky in Stephen Poliakoffs latest period drama; a semi-autobiographical mini series about a family caught up in the tensions of the Cold War during the summer of 1958 in England. Matthew plays 'Nicolas Halliday' a novelist and an etiquette teacher, whose chance meeting and intriguing relationship with Hannah (Sakofsky) will prove surprisingly vital to the plot.
Director/Writer: Stephen Poliakoff
NCIS: NEW ORLEANS
TELEVISION
CBS
In the final Season of CBS'S action/drama television show: NCIS; New Orleans, Matthew plays troubled police detective Ted Bradley, whose mistakes have fatal consequences.
Director: Levar Burton
Writer: Talicia Raggs
Cast: Keith David, Scott Bakula, CCH Pounder...
SHELTER
TELEVISION
SONY UNIVERSAL
A new television Series Pilot based on the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina and inspired by Sheri Finks 'Five Days at Memorial' - In the aftermath of a catastrophic hurricane that has wreaked havoc on a city, Matthew plays Dr. Sam Carnahan, one of the new doctors at an understaffed hospital that becomes the borough's last viable trauma center.
By Warren Leight
Director: Charles McDougall
Cast: JJ Field, Lauren Patten, Nikki M James, Paola Lázaro...
TIME AND THE CONWAYS
PLAY
BROADWAY
Starring Downton Abbey favorite Elizabeth McGovern, Matthew joins a stellar cast including Stephen Boyer, Gabriel Ebert, Anna Camp and Anna Barishnakov in one of J.B Priestleys earlier plays. Illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, we journey with the Conway family over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937.
Director: Rebecca Taichman
Theatre: American Airlines Broadway
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
TELEVISION
HBO
Directed by Gus Van Sant, Matthew plays opium-addicted, trouble making newcomer Henry Paine, the latest addition to a Puritan colonist village in 1692 Massachusetts. The series, created by the inimitable 'Orange is the new black' and "Weeds" creator Jenji Kohan, set out with an inventive new take on the early theocratic settlers; their dealings with judgement and the consequences of personal actions in a dogmatic society, and the consequences of having stolen the land from its Natives.
Starring: Eddie Izzard, Reed Birney, Karen GIllan, James Marsters, Ewan Bremer, Nadia Alexander.
Director: Gus Van Sant
DINER
MUSICAL
SIGNATURE
Matthew received a Helen Hayes Nomination for his portrayal of Fenwick Jnr in Barry Levinson's “Diner,” based on the beloved 1982 film about six Baltimore chums savoring their last gasps of 1950s adolescence with a score from Sheryl Crow. Diner had two runs, one at the Signature Theatre in D.C and the following year at the DTC, Delaware. Cast Included: Derek Klena, Erika Henningsen, Ethan Slater, Ari Brand...
Produced by Barry Levinson
Director: Kathleen Marshall
Music By; Sheryl Crow
BELIEVE
TELEVISION
NBC / UNIVERSAL
Produced by Alfonso Cuarón and JJ Abrams, 'Believe' centers around 'Bo', a young girl born with special supernatural abilities that she can not control. Matthew plays Morgan Black, a young man also developing his powers, who is caught having to choose between using them for good, or evil.
Cast Includes: Kyle Maclachlan, Delroy Lindo, Kerry Condon, Jamie Chung
PIPPIN
MUSICAL
BROADWAY
Matthew is well known for having originated the title character of the Tony award winning 2013 revival of Pippin The Musical. He developed the role with Director, Diane Paulus, at the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge. The show received generous critical acclaim for its daring new vision, which included death-defying acrobatics, lead by Gypsy Snyder and members of her circus troupe, Les doigt de la main. Bob Fosse's Iconic choreography was respectfully and effectively reworked by choreographer, Chet Walker, and Stephen Schwartz' timeless score was brought to life once again by a brilliant broadway ensemble of performers including: Andrea Martin, Terrance Mann, Rachel Bay Jones, Charlotte d'Amboise, Patina Miller and later in the run Annie Potts. Matthew completed over a year with the original cast at the Music Box Theatre before opening the first U.S national tour. The revival's hugely successful cast recording can be found on all major streaming platforms.
Director: Diane Paulus
Music: Stephen Schwartz
Choreography: Gypsy Snyder & Chet Walker
SPIDERMAN:
TURN OFF THE DARK
MUSICAL
Broadway
Matthew starred as Peter Parker/Spiderman in the original company of Spiderman: Off the Dark, Directed by Julie Taymor with music from U2’s Bono and Edge, this infamously enormous production cost between 65-85 million dollars. Matthew was with the production from early developmental stages, including flying workshops held in Las Vegas, various recording studio workshops with Bono and Edge over the rehearsal and preview period (9 months). He opened the show as alternate at the Lyric (then Foxwoods) theatre and subsequently re-opened its newer version, aptly named Spiderman: 2.0. To this day it remains one of the most exciting, terrifying and transformative experiences of his career.
Directed by Julie Taymor
Written By Glen Berger
Music By: U2 - Bono and Edge
Midsomer Murders
TELEVISION
BBC
Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series. In the episode "Masterclass", Matthew Plays the young virtuoso pianist "Orlando Guest" who seems to be more interested in Zoe (Lydia Wilson), another talented pianist auditioning for the academy, than he is the music. All is well until people start getting killed, and Zoe isn't the only woman Orlando has been pursuing.
Starring: James Fox, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Frances Barber & Michael Maloney, Richard Fleeshman
Directed by: Renny Rye
CONCERT
WEST SIDE STORY
HOLLYWOOD BOWL / LA PHILHARMONIC
Matthew had the great honor of working with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic in a concert version of West Side Story set at the Hollywood Bowl for a sold out audience of 17,500. The cast included Jeremy Jordan, Karen Olivo and
Solea Pfeiffer.
Directed by: David Saint
Music: Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
Conducted by: Maestro Gustavo Dudamel
Britannia HIGH
TELEVISION
ITV
Matthew became well known in the UK for his role of Jez Tyler in the hit tv show Britannia High - A musical drama television for the ITV network. The series, Led by Arlene Phillips and producer David Ian, focused on the lives of a group of teenagers and their mentors at a fictional London theatre school. The show had an accompanying pop album with music videos that were integrated into narrative. Matthew worked with Take That’s Gary Barlow, Eliot Kennedy, Guy Chambers, Steve Lipson and Chris Braide and many of the world’s top record producers on the initial concept album and his character’s songs. The album was released by Polydor when the show aired in 2008. The casting process for Britannia high was released as a two-part documentary series which showed other participants in the audition process which included Ed Sheeran, Pixie lott and Danielle Peazer.
The shows finale featured a live broadcast concert.
The majority of the Album was recorded in Bath at Peter Gabriel's Studio: Real World.
Songwriters Inc: Eliot Kennedy, Gary Barlow, Steve Mack, Wayne Hector, Bryn Christopher, Guy Chambers, Chris Braide, Steve Lipson.
Directed by: Minkie Spiro, Declan O'dwyre, Brian Grant
THE LOST PRINCE
FILM
BBC FILM
“There is nothing more exciting than being part of uncovering a complex and true story", in this case, one that has been well hidden in the backbone of British royalty for years. The Lost Prince is a British television drama about the life of Prince John – the youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died in 1919. Directed by the inimitable Stephen Polikoff, Matthew had the honor of playing the title character and working alongside some of the world’s finest actors: Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Michael Gambon, Gina mckee, Miranda Richardson. The Lost Prince was a pivotal role for Matthew as a young actor, setting the bar higher that he could have ever expected. Originally Broadcast in 2003, it later won 3 EMMY awards in 2005.
Casualty
TELEVISION
BBC
Casualty is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One. Matthew played Gary Yates, a young man who has rushed his roommate Zoe into the ER. After further diagnosis, he finds out that the real cause of Zoe's Sepsis is a tattoo of his name she had drunkenly inked on her arm. While dealing with his girlfriend at home, Gary eventually returns to the hospital to profess his love to Zoe.
Directed by Simon Meyers
Trevors
World Of
Sport
TELEVISION
BBC
Trevor's World of Sport is a BBC television sitcom written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. Matthew plays series regular "Toby" Trevor's son - a trouble making adolescent, who in reaction to his parents' divorce, impeccably times his destructive behavior, causing his dad to have multiple meltdowns. Starring Claire Skinner, Paul Reynolds, Abdul Salis & David Troughton.
DORIAN GRAY
PLAY
WEST END
In this closely adapted play of the classic Philosophical Novel by Oscar Wilde ‘The Portrait of Dorian Gray’, Matthew plays Dorian. Illan Goodman co-stars as Dorian’s close friend, the artist infatuated with his youth and responsible for his portrait. He later meets Lord Henry Wotton (Vince Manna) and is soon enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life.
Directed by: Linnie Reedman
BILLY ELLIOT
FILM
WORKING TITLE
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall. Matthew originally auditioned for the role of Billy, but director Stephen Daldry later cast him as Simon. Set in County Durham in North East England during the 1984–1985 miners' strike, the film is about a working-class boy who discovers a passion for ballet. The Bafta Award winning film quickly became a classic hit, winning multiple awards with global success.
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood and Gary Lewis
ABOUT A BOY
FILM
UNIVERSAL
About a Boy is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Hedges. Starring (then) schoolmate, Nicholas Hault. Matthew plays a tormenting Bully who repeatedly targets Marcus and pesters Will (Hugh Grant) The film also stars Toni Collette and Rachel Weisz.
Directed by: Chris and Paul Weitz
OTHER CREDITS
US/UK/Europe
Originally from the UK, Matthew grew up playing roles on many television, film and theatre productions in the UK. These credits Include: Fame at the Shaftesbury theatre London directed by Karen Bruce, Desperados as Gary Black (BBC), Bad Girls as Tom Fenner (BBC), Blind Date Murders (ITV) as Matthew Davey, The Bill as Karl Drake (ITV) Hero to Zero (BBC), Bare (Film) Ben Whitehouse, Doctors (BBC), Genie in the House (Nick), Whistle down the Wind at the Aldwych Theatre West End, Oliver at the Palladium directed by Sam Mendes, Dick Whittington at Sadlers Wells and Possession by Karen Wilson.
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