Matt is London-based and works internationally. He designed the lighting for the Royal Opera House’s world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Coraline; worked as associate lighting designer for The Master and Margarita (Complicité) and concert lighting designer for the iconic Grace Jones (Royal Albert Hall).
Opera work includes, Rossini’s La Cenerentola and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Irish National Opera); Puccini’s La Bohème (Opéra Orchestre National Montpelier), Verdi’s La traviata (Israeli Opera) and Macbeth (Grange Festival); Michael Zev Gordon’s Raising Icarus (Barber Opera); Verdi’s La traviata and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, (Opera North); Søren Nils Eichberg’s Glare and Matt Rogers’s The Virtues of Things (Royal Opera House); Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (Opera Zuid); Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights (Opéra national de Lorraine) and Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya (Royal Festival Hall), Britten’s Albert Herring (Royal Academy of Music).
His theatre work includes Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Broadway/West End/Canada/Australasia tours); A Tupperware of Ashes (National Theatre); Wish You Were Here (Gate Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar, Miss Saigon (Folketeateret, Oslo); Frankenstein (UK Tour); The Empress (Royal Shakespeare Company); Wedding Band, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); The Double Act (Arcola Theatre); The City and The Town (HullTruck/Riksteatern, Sweden); King James, Out of Season, Biscuits for Breakfast, The Art of Illusion, Mary, Ravenscourt, Lotus Beauty, The Fever Syndrome, Folk, Malindadzimu, I & You (Hampstead Theatre); The Clinic (Almeida); Hakawatis (Shakesperare’s Globe); Private Peaceful (Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour); Fair Play (Bush); The Girls of Slender Means (Royal Lyceum); The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep/UK tour); Nina (Young Vic/Unity Theatre); Truth and Reconciliation (Royal Court) and Hobson’s Choice (Royal Exchange).