Concordia International School Shanghai ACAMIS

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Mar, 6, 2008:
Arrive, dinner, play.

Mar. 7 , 2008:
Morning, afternoon and evening.

Mar. 8, 2008:
Morning, afternoon

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MATTHEW GRAY- THEATRE CLINICIAN

Matthew made his professional directorial debut with a production of Krapp’s Last Tape. It played the Vancouver Fringe Festival ’96 and the Pick of the Fringe ’96. It ended up playing across Canada for over a year, including the Samuel Beckett Festival in Victoria in 1997, which Matthew had attended the year before as an actor.

Matthew attained his post-graduate degree in directing at LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), and was then invited to join the Faculty. He taught and directed at LAMDA for eight years, directing over 30 plays including The Matchmaker (European tour), Hamlet (co-directed with The Globe Theatre’s Glyn MacDonald), A Lie of the Mind (with David Oyelowo) and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (with Alec Newman). Matthew was also selected as LAMDA’s representative to study with co-RSC founder John Barton.

Matthew has taught at the Royal Academy of Dance and the Royal Academy of Music. He has even gone as far a field as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Arts Council of the Isle of Man.

As a director, he produced Fool for Love in Bristol and continued his fondness for Shepard by directing the European Premiere of Shaved Splits at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh in 1998. He has also worked in London’s West End, directing both the European Premiere of C.K Williams’ translation of The Bacchae and the London premiere of Guy Picot’s People Who Don’t Do Dinner Parties. He was also involved in the World premiere of David Florez’s Redemption in London 2005/2006.

Matthew has been an educational consultant in the UK for 9 years, working with students, staff, parents and management teams in over 350 schools across the UK. This culminated in presenting a paper before HRH Princess Anne and working as a consultant to businesses including Inland Revenue, the British Army, the Department for Work & Pensions, The British Metropolitan Police Force, insurance companies, law firms and advertising agencies.

Since being at CMU, Matt has directed four plays for the School of Drama, written a chapter for ‘The Big Book Of Independent Thinking’ (Crown House Publishing, as well as delivering a paper on Acting Training with new technologies at MiT in Boston. He was Berkman Grant recipient in the Spring of 2007. He has been Key Note speaker for the Association of Trial Lawyers for Allegheny County Annual Conference in 2005 and 2006. He also is on the Advisory Board for Murals – a Federal funded after-school program for local Pittsburgh schools that promotes the use of Arts and Drama in the curriculum.