MATTHEW GRAY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR

Since 2003, Matthew Gray has assisted in the development of new opera at American Opera Projects through everything from production managing to dramaturgy to marketing to graphic and web design and everything else in between, all under the rubric of Producing Director. At AOP he has directed workshops of AbSynth and Semmelweis (for which he is also co-librettist) and the Philadelphia premiere of Darkling at Center City Opera Theater.

His multi-faceted nature also extends outside of AOP to writing, directing, acting and theatrical and film producing. He is the co-creator of the 12-part serialized play Penny Dreadful produced by the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 2007-2009. Recent NY performances include Mad Forest (nominated for Best Ensemble, NY Innovative Theatre Awards), Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, The Sinister Urge, Nevada Territory, Antony and Cleopatra, The Fugitive Girls, Bitch Macbeth (DM Theatrics); World Gone Wrong (Gemini CollisionWorks); ; Dangerous Liaisons (Wilde Mule Prod.). A BFA graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts in directing, Matthew also directed and co-wrote the play Stand Clear for the downtown arts festival The Fall Collection, and the third installment of James Comtois's serialized play Entrenched at The Battle Ranch in Brooklyn.