Matt has written plays, operas and musical adaptations which have been performed in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. His play To Sleep was staged in the West End in September 2013 and toured the United Kingdom and Australia in 2014–2015. His plays Family Play and The Life We Lived toured the United Kingdom simultaneously in 2016 and Family Play was staged at the Shelton Theater, San Francisco in April 2017. His most recent piece Fred Ted Jack & Harold toured the United Kingdom in 2018–2019 before transferring to the United States in Autumn 2019. Matt’s work is published by Roister Doister Publishing Ltd and Off the Wall Plays in the United Kingdom, and JD Drama Publishing in the United States.
Matt started writing for the theater as a teenager when he joined a writer’s group at Plymouth Theatre Royal. He runs the Swindon Fringe Festival, the production company Madam Renards Ltd and is trustee for the JTPTrust, a Southwest music education charity. He regularly lectures on playwriting and theatre production at a number of United Kingdom universities.