matt grue
Director (Proof, The Drowning Girls)
Celebrating his fifteenth year as the Artistic Director of Ignition Theatre, Matt has directed and/or produced more than forty critically acclaimed and award winning productions. Select theatre credits include: Proof, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Tuesdays with Morrie, tick, tick…BOOM!, Deathtrap, My Name is Rachel Corrie,
The Drawer Boy, The Shape of Things, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, [title of show], Bug, Corpus Christi, The Glass Menagerie, The Year of Magical
Thinking, and Gruesome Playground Injuries. Also a film producer and screenwriter, credits include the feature film adaptation of his hit original stage musical Year After Year (AMPIA Nomination; Best Feature Film) and Break on Through (AMPIA Nomination: Best Screenplay). In addition to his theatre training, Matt
also holds a degree in Motion Picture Arts from
Red Deer College.