Matt Dickson is a freelance director based in Brooklyn with a focus on new work, classics and musicals. Recent credits: GARSIDE’S CAREER by Harold Brighouse (Mint Theater, Drama Desk nomination), WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS? by Brian Quijada (Steppenwolf), THE CHARIOTEER (Juilliard), THE LONESOME WEST by Martin McDonagh (Playmakers Repertory Company, Ground Floor), STEP MOM, STEP MOM, STEP MOM by Jahna Ferron-Smith, (InterACT Theatre, Philadelphia), SMART by Mary Elizabeth Hamilton (Ensemble Studio Theatre), THREE SISTERS and THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW (NYU Grad), EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL by Chelsea Marcantel (Juilliard), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Queens College), WE THE PEOPLE: AMERICA ROCKS! (Theatreworks, US Tour), SELKIE by Krista Knight (Dutch Kills), DISCO PIGS by Enda Walsh (Drama League DirectorFest), BLOOD WEDDING and THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (Rutgers Mason Gross), THE ADVENTURES OF MINAMI by Leah Nanako Winkler (The Brick/Dramatists Guild), KID PRINCE & PABLO by Brian Quijada (Ars Nova), and Bizet’s CARMEN (New York Opera Exchange). His productions of WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS? with Satya Chávez have been seen across the country at Denver Center, Cleveland Play House, Colorado Springs, and a digital creation w/Actors Theatre of Louisville – Drama League
nomination.
As an actor he has appeared on Broadway in WAR HORSE, THE COAST OF UTOPIA (Lincoln Center Theater), and most recently Off-Broadway in Nicky Silver’s TOO MUCH SUN (Vineyard Theatre).
He is a 2021-2022 recipient of the Drama League Next Stage Residency, a 2018 Drama League Fellow, a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow (Manhattan Theatre Club) and member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He is currently an adjunct professor at NYU teaching, “Theatremaking in the Digital Age”. B.F.A. from Boston University. mattjdickson.com