Whether is was Oannes or Dionysus, St. Genesius or St. Vitus, somebody’s been looking out for Matt.

They say that it’s no good to keep banging your head against a brick wall. It’s certainly a bloody metaphor isn’t it? I mean that would hurt. While, I’ve not been beating my head against anything, I’ve reached a point in my career where I need to accomplish some new things to move forward. So does that mean I’m punching the wall? I better get something to wrap my hand with.

Though it’s hard to believe, we’re almost halfway through 2009. Fortunately, I’ve been in some production or another since the beginning of the year. My acting has also been improving significantly since about November. I walk out of auditions and hear people say “wow, he was good” from outside the door. These things say to me, “Matthew (I don’t always go by Matt), you’re ready to crank things up a notch. You need an agent.”

Without delay, I bought some envelopes, wrote some letters to 30 different agencies that sounded promising and enclosed my resume and… oh no! Read the rest of this entry »

Matt gets sappy about his first year in NYC and network television… box wine was not involved.

Wow! What a fantastic day. What a fantastic first year in New York for that matter. April 30th marked one year in this crazy city. It was a year of cold showers, cockroaches, hunger, profiteering sublessors, poverty, rejection, rodents, nights without heat, homesickness, superficial socialite hypocrites, and destroyed credit. Despite it all, the year was so amazing that none of the nonsense could keep me down.

Right now I’m reading Dracula, something I thought I’d never do as vampires are one of the few things that terrify me. In it, Bram Stoker writes, “we learn from failure, not from success!” I can’t count count the amount of times I failed in this past year. But I can tell you that each time, and I’m so thankful that this is the case, something inside me said, “get back up, brush yourself off, and do it again.”

There were lots of risks involved with coming to New York. First off, I didn’t have anywhere to live. My family all thought I did but they would’ve been worried sick if they knew I didn’t. I started in a hostel which wasn’t bad, the main problem was Read the rest of this entry »

BoCoCa stands for Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens — yes, that means it’s in Brooklyn. Well worth the trip for any Manhattanite though to see the reprise of “The Divine Will of Ryan Morgan.” Just don’t drink the water. I just got done playing the role in my first Off-Broadway experience and let me just say, it was one of the best times I’ve had on stage. It’s got rock music, priests, porn, and me as a total smartass. More details to come soon, for now, just know that it’s going to be amazing and it runs July 17-26th.

Info on the Festival
The BoCoCa Arts Festival will take place throughout the BoCoCa community and encompass all aspects of music, theater, visual and performing arts. HDP plans to utilize unconventional venues, including bars, restaurants, theaters, empty store fronts and galleries, to perform and display various works. With this festival, we hope to foster and challenge creative expression as well as unite and support both the artists, residents and businesses of the community.