Matt Bowdren
Artistic Associate
Matt Bowdren is an Artistic Associate for The Rogue Theatre. Previous directing credits at the Rogue include Angels in America Part 1 (2016 Mac Award for Best Director), Macbeth, Death of a Salesman and The Left Hand of Darkness. Matt has performed in many plays at the Rogue including Mrs Dalloway, The Crucible, The Grapes of Wrath, Penelope, Uncle Vanya, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Miss Julie, By the Bog of Cats, Hamlet (2015 Mac Award for Best Actor), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Merchant of Venice, Waiting for Godot, Awake and Sing, Betrayal, Arcadia, Measure for Measure, Mistake of the Goddess, after the quake (2013 Mac Award for Best Actor), Richard III, Metamorphosis, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Night Heron, Journey to the West, As I Lay Dying, Major Barbara, The Real Inspector Hound, New-Found-Land, The Four of Us, Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Goat. Other Arizona credits include Romeo and Juliet with Southwest Shakespeare, and Frankenstein and Othello as a faculty fellow and teaching artist with The Arizona Repertory Theatre. Matt is based in Chicago and has performed with a number of theaters there including The Goodman Theatre, Raven Theatre, TimeLine, Windy City Theatre, The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, and The Story Theatre. Matt is a co-founder and collaborator with The Small Giants Band, a multi-disciplinary arts collective. Small Giants recently premiered their original work, Notes on Nothing at IndyFringe. Matt holds an M.F.A. in Performance from the University of Georgia and is represented by DDO Artists Agency.