Previously for the Chocolate Factory: They’re Playing Our Song. Matthew trained at the Glasgow School of Art in Textile Design. On graduating he won the Royal Society of Arts Young Designer and two awards from the Japanese Fashion Foundation for design.
He was nominated for the TMA Best Design Award for his work on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Speaking Like Magpies (West End and Stratford-upon-Avon) and has designed the current national tour of Evita. Other recent designs include: Blackbird at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, Shadowlands, starring Charles Dance and Janie Dee (West End); and The Glass Menagerie starring Jessica Lange (West End).
Other theatre designs include: Nigel Planer’s On the Ceiling (West End and Birmingham Rep); In Praise of Love (Chichester Festival Theatre); Alphabetical Order, What the Butler Saw, A Month in the Country (Salisbury Playhouse); Bezti, Katharine de Souza, Getting to the Foot of the Mountain, Swamp City (Birmingham Rep); One Under (Tricycle); Clouds (UK tour); The Dead Eye Boy, Us and Them (Hampstead); Bells, Chaos, Paper Thin (Kali Theatre); Deadeye (Soho Theatre); The Green Man (Plymouth/Bush Theatre); Presence, Royal Supreme, Blood Red Saffron Yellow, Musik, The Imposter (Plymouth); Arcadia (Northampton); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Dancing at Lughnasa, Four Nights in Knaresborough, All That Trouble We Had (New Vic Stoke); Private Lives (Exeter); Romeo and Juliet (UK tour); Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Oxford Stage Company). His other work in opera includes: Il pomo d’oro (Batignano Opera Festival) and Don Pasquale (Scottish Opera Go Round); and he also designed costumes for Seriously Funny (Channel 4).