[ matthew marshall ]

With a strong grounding in the performing arts in high school and the West Australian Youth Theatre Company, Matt went on to top the state in all his performing arts subjects, winning a highly commended medal in the 1997 Quest for Excellence and 1998 Performing Arts Perspectives.

After completing high school, Matt then went on to study at the West Australian Academy of Performing Artsunder the tuition of acclaimed lighting designer Mark Howett. Matt graduated from WAAPA in 2000 with an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts Production & Design. In January 2001 Matt worked alongside Mark Howett at Opera Australia for the production of Il Trovatore at the Sydney Opera House.

Since completion of his training in 2000, Matt has gained experience in many different aspects of lighting and video within the performing arts industry. Matt works in a variety of different areas including lighting design, video design, technical direction and as tour manager. He has toured with shows around Australia and overseas including NGURRUMILMARRMIRIYU (Wrong Skin) for Performing Lines/Darwin Festival/Sydney Opera House, The Sleeping Beauty on Ice (International Concert Attractions), Why Kids? (Henri Szeps), Quartet (Agelink), Bombshells, Shadow of the Eagle (Perth Theatre Company), The Simple Truth, X Stacy, Educating Rita, The Drawer Boy, The Career Highlights of the Mamu  (Black Swan Theatre Company) & Leaves Falling @ Midnight (The Glynn Nicholas Comapny).

His main passion as a lighting designer hasbeen showcased most recently in lighting design's for Smoke & Mirrors for Sydney Festival and Spiegeltent International, recently scooping 3 Helpmann Awards and earning Matt critical accliam from UK press for its season @ the Edinburgh Fringe. Other recent designs include Shaun Tan's The Red Tree for Barking Gecko Theatre Company, La Traviata for Oz Opera, Eddie Perfect's Misanthropology and the critically acclaimed Australian Premiere of Tender Napalm for Perth Theatre Company.

Other lighting designs includes David Hobson & Teddy Tahu Rhodes in Concert for Andrew McKinnon Presentations, The Wharf Revue - Debt Dyfying Acts (2011), Not Quite Out Of The Woods (2010), Pennies from Kevin (2009) for Sydney Theatre Company, Let The Sunshine , Abigails Party, McReele, The Retreat From Moscow, The Violet Hour for Ensemble Theatre, The Distance from Here, A Woman With Dogs Eyes, The Marvellous Boy and The Emperor of Sydney for Griffin Theatre, Matt Luttons The Red Shoes. Lying Cheating Bastard for Soft Tread Enterprises,  Far Away, Life x3, A Man With Five Children, Merry Go Round in the Sea with Black Swan Theatre Company, Tender Napalm, The Ugly One, Glorious, St Nicholas, The Goat and Bombshells for Perth Theatre Company, Cinderella Dressed in Yella for Buzz Dance Theatre, the 2004, 2005, 2006 Perth Festival Village and opening events, A Floweing Tree, Candide and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) for Perth International Arts Festival, Behind The Red Curtain with Baz Luhrmann @ Fox Studios, Dealers Choice national tour for Critical Stages, Australia Day Oz Concert 2004 & 2006 at Government House Gardens Perth (broadcast on SBS television), Rainbows End, R&J, 25th Anniversary Gala and Slamming for Riverside Parramatta, Alcina for the Australian Opera Studio directed by Gregory Yurivich @ His Majesty's Perth .

Video work has included graphics for St Matthew Passion directed by Lindy Hume for PIAF 05, the 2003 PIAF opening performance Karl Karniny under the direction of David Milroy with Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre and his most memorable production so far as video designer for Black Swan Theatre’s epic ‘The Career Highlights of the Mamu’ at the 2002 Adelaide Festival and its subsequent tours including the Laokoon Festival in Hamburg, Germany.

Matt's work as a theatre lighting designer has formed relationships with directors Lindy Hume, Nigel Jamieson, Craig Illot, Andrew Ross, David Berthold, Alan Becher, Melissa Cantwell, John Sheedy, Neill Gladwin, Patrick Nolan, Sandra Bates, Kate Gaul and Mark Kilmuray.

Matt's work also crosses to the corporate world where he has worked on many different product launches, conferences and gala nights. Most recentl work includes Cusine Now for the 'Godfather of Australian cusine' Tony Bilson the 2010 Radio Awards lighting up Kiss Chasey, Jessica Mauboy and Guy Sebastian. The most unusual subjects include lighting a $900 000 number plate and a 1 milliion dollar valued stamp!

Matt's most challenging moment has been the tour of The Sleeping Beauty on Ice with The Imperial Icestars - a group of Russian and German Ice Skaters performing in Hong Kong  and Singapore,  and the ongoing negotiations in Russian, German, English, Cantonese and Mandarin!

Upcoming projects for Matt include  the Festival First Night, Anatomy of An Afternoon, and iOTA's new show - Young, Hard & Solo for Sydney Festival, Driving Into Walls for Perth Festival / Barking Gecko Theatre, the confronting Blackbird for Melissa Cantwell @ Perth Theatre Company, Diamond's Are Forever Trevor, a Shirley Bassey tribute for Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras @ The State Theatre Sydney and Sex With Strangers, with acclaimed film director/producer Jocelyn Moorhouse for Sydney Theatre Company.