Training: BA (Hons) Lighting Design, Rose Bruford College.
Recent selected Theatre credits include: Truth & Reconciliation (The Royal Court); The Years Between (Royal & Derngate); Dream Story, Mud (Gate Theatre); The Man with the Luggage, Glass Mountain (Trestle - UK Tours); Peppa Pig's Party,  Peppa Pig's Treasure Hunt (UK Tour & West End);Girls Night Out, Sorcerer's Apprentice (UK Tours); Blowing Whistles, Hit Me! (Leicester Square Theatre); The Pool (Arts Theatre London); Lovely & Misfit (Trafalgar Studios); Six Characters In Search of An Author, Festen (GSMD); Only The Brave (Edinburgh Festival).
Recent selected Opera credits include: Turn of the Screw, Cautionary Tales (Opera North); When A Man Knows (Bridewell Theatre); Into the Little Hill (Hamburg Laeiszhalle); La Cenerentola (Malmö Opera); Pelléas et Mélisande, The Sofa, The Departure (Independent Opera); Don Pasquale, The Marriage of Figaro, A House on the Moon, Orfeo, Tolomeo (ETO); Partenope, Les nuits d'été (Les Azuriales Festival); Tobias & the Angel (Young Vic/ETO); L'assedio di Calais, The Marriage, La Cambiale di Matrimonio, La Colombe, L'occasione fa il ladro (GSMD); La Fedeltà Premiata (RAM); Le nozze di Figaro (RCM).

Site Specific projects include: Thanks A Million, Cabaret Les Embiez, Hotel Deux Deux and other numerous projects (Blonstein & Associates); Dido Queen of Carthage (Kensington Palace); Sea Tongue (The Shout/De La Warr Pavilion); Encounters (Greenwich & Docklands Festival).
Other & Associate credits include: Grace Jones (Royal Albert Hall/ Wireless Festival/ ArtPop Festival); Shun-kin, A Disappearing Number (Complicite); Flamenco Flamenka! (West End).
Future plans: Don Giovanni (Opera North); The Master and Margarita (Complicite - Associate).
In 2008, Matt was nominated for a Knight of Illumination Award for his opera work with ETO & IO.