Michael
Matthews
MICHAEL MATTHEWS is an award-winning director residing in Los Angeles, CA.
Some of his Los Angeles credits include:
Failure: A Love Story (Coeurage Theatre, 2015 Ovation Win for Best Director), Justin Love (LADCC Award, Best Musical; World Premiere), Very Still and Hard To See (LA Weekly Nominations Best Director and Best Production, Play; World Premiere), The Color Purple, The Musical (Ovation and LA Weekly Awards Best Director and Best Production, Musical), What’s Wrong With Angry? (Ovation Nominations Best Director and Best Production,Play), Take Me Out! (Ovation Nomination Best Director, NAACP Award Best Director) The Women of Brewster Place, the Musical (Ovation Nomination Best Director, NAACP Award Best Director, Ovation Award Best Production, Musical; West Coast Premiere), Haram! Iran! (West Coast Premiere, GLAAD Nomination), Beautiful Thing (Ovation Nominations, Best Director and Best Production,Play), The Bacchae (Ovation Nominations, Best Director and Best Production, Play).
CURRENT PROJECTS: Blue
Awards & Nominations
2019 - Desert League Nomination: GOOD PEOPLE
2019 - Ovation Nomination: “Caberet”
2019 - Stage Raw Award: “Cabaret”
2015 - Ovation Award: “Failure; A Love Story”
2015 - Milton Katselas Award: Career Achievement in Direction from the LA Drama Critics Circle
2014 - LA Weekly Nominations: “Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers”
2013 - Ovation Nominations: “Funny Girl”
2012 - Ovation Award: “The Color Purple”
2012 - LA Weekly Award: “The Color Purple”
2011 - NAACP Award: “Take Me Out”
2011 - Ovation Nomination: “Take Me Out”
2011 - NAACP Award: “The Women of Brewster Palace”
2010 - Ovation Nominations: “The Women of Brewster Palace”
2007 - Ovation Nomination: “The Bacchae”
2007 - Ovation Nomination: “Beautiful Thing”
2006 - Joseph Jefferson Nomination: “What’s Wrong With Angry?”
2004 - Joseph Jefferson Nomination: “In The Blood”
2001 - Joseph Jefferson Nomination: “Porcelain”