Matt McKenzie

Matt McKenzie came to the UK from New Zealand in 1978. He toured with Paines Plough before joining the staff at The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 1979 where he designed the sound for several productions. Since joining Autograph in 1984, Matt has been responsible for the sound design for the opening of Soho Theatre along with its productions of Leaves of Glass, Blue Eyes and Heels, Badnuff; Vertigo (Guildford); Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Easy Virtue (Chichester); Frame 312 (Donmar Warehouse); Iron (The Traverse and Royal Court). In the West End, theatre credits include: Made in Bangkok, The House of Bernarda Alba, A Piece of My Mind, Journey’s End, A Madhouse in Goa, Barnaby and the Old Boys, Irma Vep, Gasping, Map of the Heart, Tango Argentino, When She Danced, Misery, Murder is Easy, The Odd Couple, Pygmailion, Things we do for Love, Long Day’s Journey into Night and Macbeth. For Sir Peter Hall credits include: Lysistrata, The Master Builder, School for Wives, Mind Millie for Me, A Streetcar Named Desire, Three of a Kind and Amedeus (West End and Broadway). Matt was Sound Supervisor for the Peter Hall Season (Old Vic and The Piccadilly) and designed the sound for Waste, Cloud 9, The Seagull, The Provok’d Wife, King Lear, The Misanthrope, Major Barbara, Filumena and Kafka’s Dick. Work for the RSC includes: Family Reunion, Henry V, The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Julius Caesar and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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