Matt Powell

Video Designer & Director

Award Nominations

2024 Offie Finalist for Video Design for ANIMAL at Park Theatre

2023 I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life - The Stage Awards Innovation Award Shortlisted


Matt (they/she/he) is a non-binary, award nominated, video designer, musical theatre creative and queer practitioner based in the East Midlands. They are a PhD candidate exploring LGBTQ+ representation in musical theatre at the University of Wolverhampton.


EXHibitionists - Kings Head Theatre
Matt Powell’s video projections convincingly represent the pretentious art installation that the men attend with a montage of aquatic symbolism, foaming surf dissolving into gushing waterfalls and rivulets of water trickling down cave walls
— ★★★ - The Stage
Rebecca - Charring Cross Theatre
Shadow play and watery surges around De Winter’s Cornish estate, Manderley, are captured beautifully through Matt Powell’s projections. Together with Nicky Shaw’s quickly re-forming set design, bedrooms morph into moonlit trees or cauldron-like ocean waves.
— ★★★ - The Guardian
ANIMAL - Park Theatre
Matt Powell’s potent video design, images of torsos and faces spin round and round like symbols in some manic fruit machine.
— ★★★★ - The Times

Gallery


2024

Production

Company

Laughing Boy Jermyn Street Theatre, Dir. Stephen Unwin
RIDE The Old Globe, San Diego, Dir. Sarah Meadows
Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood Watermill Theatre, Dir. P Burton Morgan
EXHibitionists Kings Head Theatre, Dir. Bronagh Lagan
Mother of the Revolution Leeds Industrial Museum, Dir. Beth Knight
Gypsy in Concert Manchester Opera House for Hope Mill Theatre, Dir. Joseph Houston

2023

Production

Company

I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life Mercury Theatre Colchester, Dir. Hetty Hodgson
Rebecca Charring Cross Theatre, Dir. Alejandro Bonnato
RIDE Curve Theatre/Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Sarah Meadows
Accidental Death of an Anarchist Theatre Royal Haymarket, Dir. Daniel Raggett
Animal Hope Mill Theatre/Park Theatre, Dir. Bronagh Lagan
RUMI The Musical D'asha Performance Arts Festival, Dir. Bronagh Lagan
Santa Must Die! North Tour & Leeds Playhouse 2023, Dir & Video Des. Matt Powell, Original Dirs. Beth Knight & Laurence Young
Nativity: The Musical Youth Theatre - Derby Youth Musical Theatre at Derby Theatre, Dir, Set & Video Des. Matt Powell
tick...tick...BOOM! Duchess Theatre for Encore Performing Arts, Dir & Des. Matt Powell
The Unconventionals Vault Festival, Dir Matt Powell

2022

Production

Company

A-Typical Rainbow Turbine Theatre, Dir. Bronagh Lagan
Flight Royal College of Music, Dir. Jeremy Sams
Bloody Difficult Women Riverside Studios, Dir. Stephen Unwin
34: The Musical The Lowry, Dir. Bronagh Lagan
Public Domain Vaudeville Theatre, Southwark Playhouse (Live Stream), Dir. Adam Lenson
Crazy For You Youth Theatre - Derby Youth Musical Theatre at Derby Theatre, Dir. Matt Powell