Matthew is a native of the Dallas Area. He became hooked on Theatre at an early age when cast as Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs while in grade school. He received his undergraduate education from Columbia College in Chicago. After college while producing several shows as a founding company member and Technical Director of Studio 108 Theatre Company he also trained at Second City. After Chicago he came back to Dallas. While deciding his next move he performed in shows at The Pocket Sandwich Theatre and Pegasus Theatre. He then attended Drama Studio London, where he met his wife Emily, graduated with honors and was named Best Actor of the 96-97 year. At the end of the year he took a show devised by him, another actress and the director to a fringe venue in London (The Rheingold Club Theatre), then to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He then went straight to New York where he immediately started working. Within three months he was in a production of Twelfth Night at the Samuel Becket Theatre. Soon after, the Off-Broadway Pearl Theatre Company cast him in a production of The Miser and he stayed on for the next five productions. He then worked for them among others in New York regularly for the next four years. In the three months leading up to his arrival in Dallas, Matthew wrote his first play, which was work-shopped and received a staged reading by fifthstreet Theatre Company. He was last in Signals of Distress, a new show with The Flying Machine Theatre Company. That show received the Tennessee Williams Fellowship, and had an Off-Broadway run. It and Matthew received rave reviews from Time Out New York and The New York Times. The play was recently named one of the top ten Off-Broadway plays of 2002 by the New York Times. He has taught locally at The Dallas Theatre Center, ACTF at Collin County Community College, and will be teaching an Improv class this fall at Richland College.

He has played Benedick in C.A.C.'s production of Much Ado About Nothing, Chris in All My Sons and Victor/ Potts in A Flea in Her Ear.