matt devitt
associate director

At the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch:
Matt is Associate Director at the Queen’s and has recently directed Relatively Speaking, Dick Barton – Special Agent, Corpse!, From a Jack to a King, A Slice of Saturday Night, Neville’s Island, Jack and the Beanstalk, Bouncers, Room at the Top, Two, Curses!, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Aladdin, A View From the Bridge, Private Lives, Educating Rita, Sleuth and The Lost World.

As a member of cut to the chase…
Matt has appeared at the Queen’s as Lionel Bart in It’s a Fine Life!, the Landlord in Two,
Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Al in April in Paris, Daffyd ap Llewellyn in A Chorus of Disapproval and Widow Twankey in Aladdin.

Theatre:
After taking a degree in performing arts at Middlesex Polytechnic and a brief career at the MOD (don’t ask), Matt was given his first job by Bob Carlton at the Bubble Theatre. During two seasons and many shows he created the role of Cookie in the original production of Return to the Forbidden Planet and Eric Glamis in the original From a Jack to a King and recently played Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors for Ludlow Festival.

West End:
Cookie in Return to the Forbidden Planet for which he received an Olivier Award nomination for Most Outstanding Performance in a musical. Matt directed and starred in the West End run of From a Jack to a King and was Production Director for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Playhouse).

Matt has supported West Ham since 1966 and always will!