Matthew Allen

Portrait of Matthew Allen

Personal Details

Height
5'4
Eyes
Blue
Hair
Blonde-Medium
Voice
High Baritone (D2-A4)
Spotlight ID
Contact
c/o Industry Liaison Officer: Industry.Liaison@cssd.ac.uk

Profile

Training

2018 - 2021The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BA (Hons) Acting (Collaborative and Devised Theatre)
2016 - 2018Pendleton School of Theatre, BTEC Extended Diploma in Musical Theatre (Level 3)
2016 - 2018The Royal Exchange Theatre, The Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company
2017 - 2017National Youth Theatre, National Youth Theatre
2014 - 2017The Television Workshop, Salford

Productions at Central

2020 Fred - Sticks and Stones (Cressida Brown & Lucy Hayes)

2020 Sound Designer & Composer/ Editor/ Cuddy Banks The Witch of Edmonton (Robbie Bowman)

2020 Marya Antonovna The Government Inspector (Sinead Rushe)

2019 John Oleanna (Hannah Banister)

2019 Saxophonist/ Stand up comic/ Deviser Another Country (Topher Campbell)

2019 Benedick Much Ado about Nothing (Sinead Rushe)

2019 Jorgan Tesman Hedda Gabler (Yael Shavit)

2018 John Wisehammer Our Country’s Good (Sinead Rushe)

Experience

Stage

2019 Robboe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - The Television Workshop Salford - Edinburgh Fringe (Rachel Brogan)

2018 Dick Barton - Dick Barton and the Tango of Terror - The Television Workshop Salford - Edinburgh Fringe (Rachel Brogan)

2017 Wally Web - Our Town - The Royal Exchange Theatre (Sarah Frankcom)

2017 Company - The Space Between us - The Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company - The Royal Exchange Theatre (Andy Barry and Christopher Owen)

2015 Dancer - Transient - Commotions Dance Company - The Lowry (Beth Bracegirdle, Sam Broadbent)

2015 Lost Boy - Peter Pan Goes Wrong! - Mischief Theatre - The Lowry (Adam Meggido)

2014 Arthur - Lord of the Flies - Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - The Lowry (Matthew Bourne)

2013 Ivar Helmer - A Dolls House - The Royal Exchange Theatre (Greg Hersov)

2013 Curly - Peter Pan - First Family Entertainment - The Liverpool Empire (Jane Joseph)

2012 The Changling - Rat’s Tales - The Royal Exchange Theatre (Melly Still)

Television

2017 Fin Shawcross - Doctors - BBC Television (Bob Tomson)

2012 Son of Mr and Mrs Walderhurst - The Making of a Lady - The Making of a Lady Ltd (Richard Curson Smith)

2012 Comic Boy Kid - Utopia - Kudos/ Channel 4 (Marc Munden)

Film

2017 Raif - Castlebrook - The Television Workshop Salford (Rachel Brogan)

2016 Brady - How to be bad and other stories - The Television Workshop Salford (Tim Royle)

Radio

2012 Peter (Ivar Helmer) - A Doll’s House - BBC (Nadia Molinari)

Site Specific

2017 Andrew Barker - Table for Six - Royal Exchange Theatre (Yandass Ndlovu)

2014 Company - After The Silence: Music in the Shadow of War - Royal Northern College of Music - The Imperial War Museum (Caroline Clegg)

Memberships

Equity

Accents

Manchester*, Northern*, American-Southern States, American-Standard, RP, Heightened RP, Scottish-Standard, Irish-Southern, Kent, London.

Skills

Ballet, Tap and Jazz Dancing (Intermediate). Contemporary Dance, Capoeira. Alto Saxophone (Advanced), Banjolele (Advanced), Ukulele, Violin, Drums-Djembe, Cajon, Piano, High Baritone, Sight-Reading, Conducting (Sing for Pleasure technique), Composer. Writer, Musical Theatre, Physical Theatre, Children’s Theatre, Clown, Mask, Michael Chekov Technique, Feldenkrais Method, Biomechanics, Poetry Reading, Radio Drama, Stand-up Comic, Story Telling, Puppetry. Stage Combat, Car Driving Licence, Carer (trained), DBS (CRB) clearance, Film/Video Editor.

Languages

English*, German (Basic)