Matt Wilde

Background

About Matt Wilde

I am the Deputy Director of Actor Training & Drama School and Course Leader of the prestigious and renowned MFA Professional Acting Programme. I am also an award winning Theatre and Film Director. As an actor trainer my teaching expertise lies in process and practical based methods such as Stanislavsky, Uta Hagen and Actioning. In my current position, I direct and teach across a range of LAMDA’s acting programmes including class work, scene study, productions, workshops, masterclasses, professional preparation and showcases. Public productions directed at LAMDA include Bad Roads, Woyzeck, King Charles and our Graduating Actors Showcase. Education and actor training is at the core of my endeavours and I have worked extensively in the UK’s leading Drama Schools, Conservatoires and institutions including LAMDA, LIPA, RADA, Rose Bruford and Goldsmiths University. I formerly co-created and was the Course Leader for the MA Acting (Company) Course at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). I have worked professionally as an Actor and Director nationally and internationally. I have directed at some of the UK’s leading theatres including the Royal Court London, National Theatre London, Almeida, Old Vic, Soho, Unicorn Theatre, Liverpool Everyman, Edinburgh Traverse and for leading companies including National Theatre, KSF, Out of Joint, Actors Touring Company, Old Vic New Voices, Middle Eastern Theatre Academy and Splendid Productions. My work has taken me to NYC: Broadway, UAE, Europe, Brazil and Mexico. I am also a former Associate Director of the National Theatre Studio and Out of Joint Theatre Company. I studied and trained as an actor and director at Bretton Hall: University of Leeds, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and on programmes with the Arts Council of England. I continue to be involved in developing and producing new work with writers from a variety of venues, programmes and communities. My new work collaborations have been with writers including Roy Williams, Sabrina Mahfouz, Greg Burke, Hassan Abdulrazzak, David Hare and Adam Rapp. My debut feature film Kicking Off won BEST UK FEATURE FILM at London’s Raindance Film Festival in 2015 and BEST PRODUCTION & BEST UK FEATURE FILM at Oxford International Film Festival 2016 and toured international film festivals.