Matt Scholten

Matt Scholten is an Australian theatre director who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. He has worked for companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir Street Theatre, Theatreworks Melbourne, and La Mama Theatre.[1] He has been the Artistic Director of the independent theatre company If Theatre since 2006.

If Theatre's debut production was A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter and was closely followed by Three Short Plays by Jack Hibberd for La Mama's 40th Birthday in 2007.

Beginning in 2008, Scholten collaborated with playwright Daniel Keene on a practice based primarily in Melbourne's western suburbs, launching The Dog Theatre in Footscray with productions of Keene's Half & Half and then The Cove (eight short plays including four world premieres). If Theatre has also toured two new commissions written by Keene: Boxman (commissioned by Big West Festival and then presented by Regional Arts Victoria on a Victorian and NSW tour) and Mother a one-woman play written for Noni Hazlehurst which began a national tour and was published by Currency Press in 2015.[2]

Scholten's production of Daniel Keene's The Nightwatchman was part of Theatreworks' Selected Works programme in 2010 and also that year he was Assistant Director to Peter Evans at the Melbourne Theatre Company on Keene's debut there, Life Without Me.

For the Melbourne Theatre Company, Scholten has directed The Heretic written by Richard Bean featuring Noni Hazlehurst & Andrew McFarlane and directed readings of Rejkavijk by Paul Galloway and Daniel Keene's The Curtain with Helen Morse and Alex Menglet.

Other directorial works include The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, Mr. Kolpert by David Geislemen, and new Australian work including Human Resources by Chris Aronsten, Crossed by Chris Summers, Black Box 149 by Rosemary Johns and Here We All Are. Assembled by Kathryn Ash.

Scholten is also a teacher of acting and directing, working extensively at the Victorian College of the Arts and was Head of Theatre Arts at Goulburn Ovens TAFE from 2010-2014, continuing to teach and direct there into 2015.

For television, in 2013 Matt completed a Directorial Attachment with Channel Seven on the television drama A Place to Call Home and in 2017 was Acting Coach on Magpie Pictures' Grace Beside Me.

Beginning in 2013, Scholten programmed the theatre season for Benalla Performing Arts & Convention Centre (BPACC) and in 2014 he was appointed as resident Artistic Director there, launching Season 2015.

In 2015, Scholten toured with the regional productions of Mother throughout Victoria and Tasmania and then relocated to South East Queensland taking up a position teaching Acting and directing several productions at the University of Southern Queensland until 2017.[3][4]

In 2016, Mother toured New South Wales and Queensland and was nominated for two Helpmann Awards. . Mother was presented at Belvoir Street Theatre in early 2018 and plays at QPAC in August 2018. .

Scholten is currently teaching Acting at Griffith University and QUT in Brisbane and is developing several new theatre, film and television projects.

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References

  1. Galloway, Paul. "Grains of truth". ArtsHub Australia. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  2. "Walking wounded". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  3. "Hazlehurst gives authoritative performance in Mother". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  4. "Noni Hazlehurst Keeps it Real in First Onewoman Show Mother". www.heraldsun.com (behind paywall)
  5. "Home — Victorian College of the Arts". unimelb.edu.au.
  6. "Guest blog: Anna Samson (BDrama 2010)". unimelb.edu.au.
  7. "Melbourne Theatre Company". Melbourne Theatre Company.
  8. "Noni Hazlehurst in Mother by Daniel Keene". tumblr.com.
  9. "Benalla Performing Arts Centre - Theatre & Cinema". bpacc.com.au.
  10. "Matt Scholten". IMDb.
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