Matt Dickson

 

Matt Dickson is a freelance director based in Brooklyn with a focus on new work, classics and musicals. He is currently pioneering the medium of digital theatre-making. Upcoming projects include: Dan Giles’ MIKE PENCE SEX DREAM (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and a virtual collaboration with playwright Nadja Leonard-Hooper (NYU). Recent credits include: BRONTË (A digital stream, NYU Stella Adler), Dolores Díaz’s Metamorphic (A digital workshop w/ WildWind Performance Lab), We the People: America Rocks! (Theatreworks, US Tour), Machinal (Strasberg Institute), Krista Knight's Selkie (Dutch Kills), Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (NYU Grad), Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs (Drama League DirectorFest), Blood Wedding and The Cider House Rules (Rutgers Mason Gross), Leah Nanako Winkler’s The Adventures of Minami (The Brick/Dramatists Guild), Brian Quijada's Kid Prince & Pablo (Ars Nova), Amy Fox’s Silver Men (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Charles Mee's A Perfect Wedding (Atlantic Conservatory), Bizet’s Carmen (New York Opera Exchange), and Jahna Ferron-Smith’s Sir (Winner, Samuel French Festival). Regional credits include: Oscar Hammerstein Festival with Adam Gwon (Bucks County Playhouse), Lanford Wilson's Home Free! and Michael John Garcés Audiovideo (Williamstown Theatre Festival). As an actor he has appeared on Broadway in War Horse and The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater), and most recently Off-Broadway in Nicky Silver's Too Much Sun (Vineyard Theatre). He is a 2017 Drama League Fellow, a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow (Manhattan Theatre Club) and member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He is currently an adjunct professor at NYU teaching, “Theatre-making in the Digital Age". B.F.A. from Boston University. For more information, please visit mattjdickson.com.