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Birmingham Rep in Centenary Square, Birmingham

Matt Devitt

Extensive theatre includes: Shylock in Merchant Of Venice, Touchstone in As You Like It; Al in April In Paris; Sidney Bruhl in Death Trap; Daffyd in A Chorus Of Disapproval; Landlord in Two; Lionel Bart in It’s A Fine Life (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream; Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy Of Errors (Ludlow Festival); Stephano in The Tempest (Nottingham Playhouse); Eric Glamis in (and as director) From A Jack To A King (Ambassadors Theatre, London); Olivier nomination for creating the role of ‘Cookie’ in Return To The Forbidden Planet (Cambridge Theatre, London).

TV includes: Red Dwarf, Keen Eddie, The Life & Crimes Of William Palmer, Down To Earth, Playaway, Jackanory, Melvin & Maureen’s Music A Gram and Campus.

Film includes: Waking Ned Devine and Funny Man.

Matt directed over 70 productions as Associate Artistic Director of the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch over 18 years.