MATT AUGUST Curriculum Vitae 917-226-6138 www.mattaugust.com
A professional Theatre Director and Mentor with twenty-five years directing experience on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Abroad, for LORT Theatres, National Tours, Regional, Summer Stock and Festivals, working with Equity, Equity- Waiver and Non-Equity agreements, who develops and directs New Plays and Musicals, Classical, Contemporary, Shakespeare and Holiday productions.
Education- Degrees 1997 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Directing Ahmanson Scholarship, Disney Scholarship 1993 BFA University of Colorado, Performance Studies Dean’s List
Additional Education 2014 SDC Foundation Artistic Leadership Conference 2006 Commercial Theatre Institute Intensive 1996 The Wrestling School, UK- Observership of Howard Barker 1990-91 British American Drama Academy, Acting & Theatre Studies
Fellowships, Residencies and Internships 2013 San Francisco Zen Center Artist Residency 2011 Panavision New Filmmakers Grant 2000 Oregon Shakespeare Festival Phil Killian Directing Fellow 1999 Drama League Fellow 1996 Robert Wilson Watermill Center Directing Fellow 1994 Juilliard School- Directing Intern 1993 George Street Playhouse- Directing Intern
Teaching 2014 University of Utah, Master Class Teacher (Acting Class) 2009 NYU, Master Class Teacher (Directing class) 1999 The Acting Company Master Class teacher with as Staff Repertory Director. Created, implemented, taught and oversaw a curriculum of master classes taught by the members of the acting company and myself. Taught at such colleges as Notre Dame, University of Virginia, Cal State- San Luis Obispo, UCSB, etc… 1998 Old Globe Theatre “Play Guides” Instructor, Guest Teacher at many San Diego high schools and colleges, including The Bishop School, Grossmont College, Miramar College, Garfield Senior High School, Museum School, etc.
Mentorship 2015 SDCF Mentor Director 2011 Drama League Mentor Director 2008 SDCF Mentor Director 2007 Drama League Mentor Director 2006 Drama League Mentor Director 2005 Drama League Mentor Director to all Hanger Theatre Summer Fellows 2006 Drama League Directing Fellowship Selection Committee Member 2005 Drama League Directing Fellowship Selection Committee Member 2004 Drama League Directing Fellowship Selection Committee Member 2001 Drama League Directing Fellowship Selection Committee Member 2002 NYU Senior Thesis Advisor 2002 NYU Senior Thesis Advisor
Positions 2019 Offered the Artistic Directorship of Arizona Theatre Company- Declined Offer 2016- Independent Shakespeare Company, Artistic Advisory Board, 2016-2018 2014- SDC Los Angeles Ad Hoc Committee Member, 2014- current 2014 SDC Executive Board Nominating Committee Member 2014 SDC Executive Board Regional Representative Nominating Committee Member 2011 SDC Executive Board Nominating Committee Member 2014 Directors Lab West- SDC Panelist/Lecturer 2008 Directors Lab West- Panelist/Lecturer 2001-2002 Next Stages, Boston- Co-Artistic Director 2000 Resident Director- The Full Monty, Fox Theatricals 2000 Resident Director- Invention of Love, Lincoln Center 1999-2000 The Acting Company, NYC- Staff Repertory Director 1998 The Old Globe Theatre- Resident Assistant Director 1994 Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Director of Outreach 1993 Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Founding Member, Resident Assistant Director
Awards and Honors 2018 Clybourne Park- Casting Society of America Artio Award Nomination- Best Ensemble 2017 The Fourth Messenger- NYMF Awards: Winner: Best Actor; Nominations: Best Director, Best Design 2016 TCG Alan Schneider Director’s Award Finalist: TCG Spotlight On: Matt August 2016 King Charles III- Mac Award Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Drama at Arizona Theatre Company 2016 Gospel…Discord-Mac Award Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Comedy at Arizona Theatre Company 2015 Gospel…Discord- Ovation Recommended, Ovation Nomination 6 Broadway World Award Nominations, including Best Director 3 Extensions at the Geffen Playhouse 2014 Gospel…Discord- LA Times Critics Choice at NoHo Playhouse 2015 The Trouble We Come From- Broadway World Award Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress 2013 The Fourth Messenger: Top Ten Lists: KQED/NPR, Chad Jones’ Theatre Dogs 2012 How to Get to Candybar Winner- Best Comedy: Dragon Con Film Festival Winner- Best Comedy: Cape Fear Film Festival 2012 In the Heights- Audience Choice Winner Theatre Utah 2011 Liberty Smith- Helen Hayes Award Nominations: Best Director, Best Ensemble, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Music Direction, Best Costumes 2007 Two Gentlemen of Verona- LA Times Top Ten List 2006 How the Grinch Stole Christmas- #1 Selling Show on Broadway 2005 Baby Taj- Bay Area Critics Award 2005 Baby Taj- Top Ten Lists- San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News 2003 The Full Monty (Australia)- 6 Helpmann Award Nominations, including Best Director; Winner- Best Actor 2007 Meet John Doe- Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Best Musical 2006 Sisterhood of the Night- KC/ACTF Best Director Honorary Mention
Upcoming Projects:
2020 LP/OP Feature Film- Director and Executive Producer, produced by Freestyle Picture Company (Florida Project, Tangerine).
Directing Credits 2019 Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas United Kingdom Tour; United States National Tour LP/OP developmental Workshop and Reading Garry Marshall Theatre, Los Angeles
2018 Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas Madison Square Garden NYC, Chicago Theatre, Wang Theatre, and National Tour Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris Laguna Playhouse The Envelope, by Alex Lewin, workshop Pioneer Theatre Play by Play Series
2017 Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas-The Musical, National Tour, produced by Big League Productions. The Fourth Messenger, a New Musical by Tanya Shaffer and Vienna Teng, New York Musical Festival, NYC 2016 Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas- Grand Ole Opry, Nashville Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas- National Tour, Big League Productions King Charles III (American Premier) Arizona Theatre Company Gospel According to Jefferson, Dickens & Tolstoy: Discord Arizona Theatre Co. Love’s Bluff Independent Shakespeare Company Two Dollar Bill Pioneer Theatre 2015 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Grand Ole Opry, Nashville TN How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, Big League Productions Dracula (also co-adapter) LA Theatre Works- National Tour The Fourth Messenger- Cast Album (also Music Supervisor) 50 Shades of Green The Trouble We Come From Falcon Theatre, LA, Prod: Garry Marshall LATW 40th Anniversary Gala Beverly Hilton Hotel Ballroom The Trouble We Come From (workshop) Falcon Theare, LA Two Dollar Bill- Workshop Pioneer Theatre Intelligence Slave LA Theatre Works, Broadcast on NPR
2014 Going to a Place You Already Are South Coast Repertory, NewSCRipts How the Grinch Stole Christmas (w. Shuler Hensley) Madison Square Garden/Chicago Theatre How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, Big League Productions Gospel According to Jefferson, Dickens & Tolstoy: Discord Geffen Playhouse Richard III (reading) Independent Shakespeare Company Much Ado About Nothing Pioneer Theatre Company 2013 Gospel According to Jefferson, Dickens & Tolstoy: Discord, NoHo Arts Center How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, Big League Productions The Fourth Messenger 100 Shades of Green, Ashby Stage, Berkeley 2012 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Madison Square Garden/Wang Center How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, Big League Productions In the Heights (Regional Premier) Pioneer Theater Company The Fourth Messenger (workshop) Playwrights Foundation, SF 2011 How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, Big League Productions How to Get to Candybar (Short Film) White Eagle Productions/BitPix Distribution Film Festivals Played: HollyShorts, New Filmmakers NY, Manhattan, LA Children’s, Dragon Con (Winner Best Comedy), California International, Monaco Charity, California Independent, Kid’s First, Cape Fear (Winner Best Comedy) Liberty Smith- A New American Musical Ford’s Theatre 2010 Cuba Libre La Jolla Playhouse- Page to Stage Series How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, Big League Productions Les Girls X: Celebrity NBCC Benefit Avalon Theatre, Hollywood 2009 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (w. John Larroquette) Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles Secondhand Lions- The Musical (reading) Warner Brothers/Unique Features My Man Godfrey- The Musical (reading) East of Doheny
2008 How the Grinch Stole Christmas National Tour, Running Subway Productions Liberty Smith (workshop) Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC Searching for God in Suburbia Huntington Theatre- Breaking Ground Fest Secondhand Lions- The Musical (reading) Warner Brothers/Unique Features My Man Godfrey- The Musical (reading) East of Doheny Masked (reading) Splinter Group, Los Angeles Riot Act (reading) Culture Project/Hendle Productions Speech and Debate LA Theatre Works- The Play’s the Thing, NPR 2007 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Broadway- St. James Theatre Two Gentlemen of Verona The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Drama League’s Annual Black Tie Gala Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Plaza Ethan Frome- A New Musical (workshop) NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Program 2006 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (w. John Cullum) Broadway- Hilton Theatre A Christmas Carol Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC Pig Farm The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego …and Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi Sundance Theatre Lab Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove LA Theatre Works- The Play’s the Thing, NPR 2005 A Christmas Carol Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC Baby Taj TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA Mimesophobia (with Hamish Linklater) Summer Play Festival, NYC All in the Timing Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY 2004 Two Gentlemen of Verona The Acting Company, Acorn Theatre NYC & National Tour A Christmas Carol Fords Theater, Washington DC Meet John Doe (director and co-author) New York Musical Theatre Festival Complete History of America- Abridged Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY The Food Chain The Old Globe Theatre True Romances NYU Cap 21 Hot Ink Festival 2003 The Full Monty State Theatre, Melbourne Australia Time Flies The Old Globe Theatre Sixteen Wounded (with Martin Landau) Long Wharf Theatre 2002 Jumprope Next Stages, Boston Playwrights Theatre Victory (reading) Rude Mechanicals, NYC Kitchen Drama- A Comedy (reading) New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Sixteen Wounded Cherry Lane Theatre Romeo and Juliet National Shakespeare Company Tour 2001 Sir Thomas More (workshop) Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2000 Velvet Ropes NY Fringe Festival; Drama League A Midsummer Night’s Dream Project Lincoln Center Directors Lab The Merry Wives of Windsor The Acting Company- National Tour 1999 Free To Be, You and Me The Hangar Theatre The Tempest The Hangar Theatre Velvet Ropes The Hangar Theatre Judith (by Howard Barker) HERE Performing Arts Café, NY 1998 Judith Old Globe Lab 1997 Lady M CalArts Studio Theatre 1996 Sisterhood of the Night CalArts New Plays Festival The Castle (Thesis Production- by Howard Barker) CalArts Modular Theatre Prickly Pear CalArts New Play Festival Fool and Proper Wages CalArts New Play Festival Leonardo’s Last Supper CalArts Studio Theatre
Associate Director with Jack O’Brien- Broadway 2003-04 Henry IV Lincoln Center Theatre 2003 Imaginary Friends Ethel Barrymore Theatre 2002 Imaginary Friends Old Globe Theatre 2002 The Full Monty 2nd Nat Tour (Producing Office) 2001 Imaginary Friends NYC Workshop 2001 The Full Monty 1st Nat Tour (Fox Theatrical) 2001 The Invention of Love Lincoln Center Theatre
Resident, Associate or Assistant Director: Regional, Off Broadway, LORT 2002 Continental Divide (Workshop) dir. Tony Taccone Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Berkeley Rep 2001 Three Sisters dir. Libby Appel Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2000 Dead End dir. Nicholas Martin Huntington Theatre Company 1999/2000 The Rivals dir. Nicholas Martin The Acting Company 1999/200 Macbeth dir. Anne D’Zmura The Acting Company 1999 Things You Shouldn’t Say… dir. John Rando Promenade Theatre, NYC 1999 Lives of the Saints dir. John Rando Philadelphia Theater Company 1998 Paramour dir. Joseph Hardy Old Globe Theatre 1998 As You Like It dir. Stephen Wadsworth Old Globe Theatre 1998 All in the Timing dir. John Rando Old Globe Theatre 1998 Neville’s Island dir. Andrew Traister Old Globe Theatre 1998 Scotland Road dir. Craig Noel Old Globe Theatre 1997 Chemistry of Change dir. Lisa Peterson Mark Taper Forum New Works Fest 1997 Nine Armenians dir. Gordon Davidson Mark Taper Forum 1997 Nine Armenians dir. Gordon Davidson Denver Center Theatre 1996 Orlando dir. Robert Wilson Edinburgh Theatre Festival/Lyceum 1995 Brave New World dir. Robert Benedetti CalArts Modular Theatre 1995 Company dir. Jules Aaron West Coast Ensemble 1994 Great Pretenders dir. Barry Edelstien Juilliard School 1994 Buried Child dir. Brian Mertes Juilliard School 1994 Midsummer Nights Dream dir. Sean Kelley Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre 1993 Twelfth Night dir. Sean Kelley Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre
Author How to Get to Candybar- Short Film, Story By White Eagle Production Meet John Doe- Co Author Ford’s Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Northlight Theatre, New York Musical Theatre Festival Fool and Proper Wages Lionshead Theatre, LA- Sirius Theatre Lady M CalArts Lab
Special Appearances The White House- Director: A Christmas Carol played a special engagement for President G.W. Bush, the First Lady, Cabinet Members and the Children and Spouses of Military Service Men and Women, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade- Director: How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Today Show- Director: How the Grinch Stole Christmas: National Audition Search to cast a child “Who”. Good Morning America- On- Camera guest as Casting Judge & Director: How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Wendy Williams Show- Director: How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Tony Awards- Associate Director of The Full Monty featured segment NPR- Featured Guest as Director of Dracula for LATW and for Staff Repertory Director for Acting Company Tour
Articles 2016 Theatre Communication Group: Spotlight On Matt August