Matt will be appearing in Episode 1 of Joss Whedon’s new Victorian England sci-fi series ‘The Nevers’.
Joss is directing for HBO and the show stars Laura Donnelly, James Norton, Nick Frost and Eleanor Tomlinson.
Matt plays a very interesting character but all will be revealed in 2021. Watch this space!
Matt recently worked on Episode 1 of the new TV series adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, BRAVE NEW WORLD.
He plays a ‘dirtbag customer’ visiting a junk shop in the wilderness and appears in a scene with Alden Ehrenreich (Star Wars’ Han Solo) and Richard Brake.
The season is due to air in the UK on July 15th 2020. 
Matt just appeared in Episode 10 of Season 5 of hit TV series OUTLANDER.
The episode was directed by Annie Griffin and was filmed just outside of Glasgow, near Dunblane.
Matt was the Captain Of The Guard sentencing Stephen Bonnet to death by drowning.
Matt appeared in the new ITV mini-series of James Graham’s play QUIZ.
He was the contestant sitting next to Tecwen Whittock who told him the million pound answer. Tecwen then coughed the answer to Major Charles Ingram (played by Matthew Macfadyen). Chris Tarrant is played by the fantastic Michael Sheen.
The series was directed by the exceptional Stephen Frears.
Matt has been employed by the Donmar Warehouse as Script Assistant to Lia Williams on THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE.
Lia is playing Jean Brodie.
The show starts previews on June 4th and runs until July 28th.
Here are some production shots from the opening of the show (the coin toss) where it is decided who will play Queen Elizabeth and who will play Mary Queen Of Scots. In this example Juliet Stevenson won the toss!
Matt has just been cast as the older male understudy in Robert Icke’s MARY STUART in the West End.
The play has transferred from the Almeida Theatre in Islington and stars Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams.
Matt will be U/S for Lords Paulet, Burleigh and Talbot.
Press night at the Duke Of York’s Theatre is January 26th 2018 and the show tours to Bath Theatre Royal, Salford Lowry and Cambridge Arts Theatre in April 2018.
Matt was recently cast as Mario the photographer in episode 4 of The Royals airing in February 2018.
The show is about a fictional British Royal family and stars Elizabeth Hurley and Joan Collins amongst others.
CTRL has been going really well making the official selection for the ‘Raindance Film Festival’ and being nominated in the ‘Best Mobile Experience’ category at the Proto Awards in L.A. It has also been praised for ‘Innovation In Experience Design’ at the WIRED/Audi Innovation Awards. Here is the new trailer:
This weekend Matt played the part of autistic murderer/office worker, Stanley, in a very dark comedic short film called ‘Death & Taxes’. The short was written, produced and directed by three young film makers – Andrew Kirwan, Horatio Gould and Alfie Green.
Today Matt appeared in Miike Snow’s new music video ‘Trigger’. He was playing a KGB operative in the Kremlin during the height of the Cold War betwen America and Russia. The video will be a fantasy accompaniment to a very catch tune directed by the amazing Ninian Doff. Due to be released in summer 2016. Keep an eye out!
The first reviews for virtual reality drama ‘Ctrl’ from Breaking Fourth are in and the audience are definitely talking about it! Matt plays Mark (the abusive partner).
Matt’s voice features in a trailer for a new virtual reality play/theatre experience from Breaking Fourth.
He is participating in a rehearsed reading of the entire play for them this weekend. The VR experience will be directed by Nigel Townsend.
The trailer can be viewed here:
Matt will be appearing in a touring production of an exciting new play by acclaimed playwrite Judith Johnson.
The play is called ‘People Are Messy’ and Matt will be playing a research doctor called Adam who specialises in blood conditions including aplastic anaemia.
The play starts rehearsals in late December and tours the UK until the end of March 2016.
Matt is currently in Penang, Malaysia, where he is part of the crew on Channel 4’s ‘Indian Summers’. Not acting on this occasion but a great experience to be on set with such an amazing cast and crew for, what is turning out to be, a brilliant British drama.
Julie Walters stars as Cynthia Coffin and Paul Wilmshurt is directing.
Matt had some photos taken recently by fashion photographer James Rees (make up by Kirsty Gaston).
Today Matt was on-set for the live action shoot for an interactive gambling app. The shoot was directed by James Nunn and the app will be going live sometime in early 2015.
The reviews are flooding in and the reviewers seem to like us!
“Matt Butcher shows great range and his Pandarus is always fresh and impulsive, not afraid of playing many different notes in text and tone.”
“Overshone slightly by the involvement of Cressida’s uncle Pandarus (Matt Butcher). Ramping up the camp allows Butcher to bring plenty of comedy in all his scenes – an unexpected show-stealer.”
Views From The God – Troilus & Cressida (5-stars)
“Pandarus is Cressida’s camp, matchmaking uncle, well played by Matt Butcher. His performance is the best of the production. Director Ricky Dukes certainly knows how to choose performers with an innate sense for Shakespeare’s linguistic nuances.”
Everything Theatre – Troilus & Cressida (4-stars)
“Matt Butcher’s Pandarus is a bright light guiding us through”
Female Arts London (4-stars)
“A standout performance is Matt Butcher as Pandarus, whose camp exuberance at playing Cupid to the young couple is very funny.”
Entertainment Focus London (3-stars)
“Matt Butcher is excellent as both Pandarus and Cominius.”
Time Out London (3-stars)
“Pandarus (Matt Butcher), who behaves like the worst of matchmakers, is the comical highlight of the evening”
“As Pandarus Matt Butcher creates a really creepy creature with just the faintest hint of camp to explain why he is what he is.”
“a great example of how accessible and engaging Shakespeare can be”
Everything Theatre – Coriolanus (3-stars)
“cast with great tautness and precision”
“compare Coriolanus to any classical works by any other theatre company and it wouldn’t have to fight hard to come out on top.”
Views From The Gods – Coriolanus
Matt has just been cast in a feature film called ‘Digs’ that is shooting in Cardiff in early 2015.
He will be playing film lecturer, Daniel Pellin.
The production is through Smurfox Entertainment and is directed/produced by Mike Murphy.
Matt will be appearing in two Shakespeare plays this summer as part of the Lazarus Theatre Company ensemble.
The plays are ‘Troilus & Cressida’ where he will be playing Pandarus, and ‘Coriolanus’ where he is playing Cominius.
The plays will be on at the Tristan Bates Theatre in the West End of London (Tube: Covent Garden/Leicester Square).
Director is Ricky Dukes. The plays are opening as part of the Camden Fringe Festival and then having an addition couple of weeks after that.
Bookings can be made at the Tristan Bates Theatre: Coriolanus tickets / Troilus & Cressida tickets
A short film that Matt appears in will be shown at the 5th Annual New York City International Film Festival this summer (May/June 2014).
Matt plays a sleazy American porn film producer.
The film (shot in part in Australia) stars Chloe Traicos, features Darren Hawkins and was directed by J.D.Cohen.
This week Matt will be on-set for the new Channel 7 TV series ‘Australia: The Story Of Us’.
He will be playing a German scout that gets caught by ANZAC soldiers.
The episode/series is being directed by Hugh Ballantyne and Matt’s scenes are being shot out in Camden Valley, Sydney.
This week Matt will be appearing in his latest theatrical production. The show is being produced by theatre company ‘subtlenuance’. It is called ‘High Windows, Low Doorways’ and will be on at the downstairs TAP Gallery in Sydney.
‘High Windows, Low Doorways’ is a devised piece featuring seven actors who all worked individually with seven writers to create a piece based on the themes of life, death, religion and spirituality.
Also appearing are Kit Bennett, Alice Keohavong, Naomi Livingstone, Peter McAllum, Helen Tonkin and Gavin Roach.
It is being directed by Paul Gilchrist and produced by Daniela Giorgi.
Reviews are in for ‘Privates On Parade’.
“Matt Butcher plays Drummond, ‘the bad apple in the barrel’. He sneeringly derides the homosexuals, treats Sylvia and the locals appallingly, is suspicious of Flowers because he’s come from an intelligence unit and may be trying to catch him out on all his black market activities. This is real ‘hiss-the-villain’ stuff and Butcher does it remarkably well.”
“Matt Butcher’s villain is wonderfully (and consciously) pantomime, and achieves both humour and real menace.”
But alongside the frivolity there are darker elements including the arrogant ordering around of the Asian servants….(and) the behaviour of the abusive, corrupt, homophobic Sergeant Major Reg Dummond (Matt Butcher). All in all, an enjoyable evening.
– Kevin Jackson’s Theatre Diary
– The Buzz
– The Brag
This afternoon Matt is attending the 3rd AACTA Awards ceremony at Star City, Sydney. The AACTAs is the black-tie event that replaced the AFI Awards three years ago.
Also attending the awards and after-party will be Matt’s agent, Michelle Horner, from Ignite Elite Artists Management.
The awards ceremony will be shown on Channel Ten in Australia at 8.30pm tonight.
Matt has been cast in the upcoming New Theatre production of ‘Privates On Parade’ as part of the Mardi Gras Festival 2014.
He will be playing military man, Reg. The season runs from Feb 11th to March 8th at the New Theatre in Newtown, Sydney and will be directed by Alice Livingstone.
Also appearing are Jamie Collette, Peter Eyers, David Hooley, Morgan Junor-Larwood, James Lee, Henry Moss, David Ouch, Diana Perini, Martin Searles and Gerwin Widjaja.
Tickets can be purchased at the door or online in advance at the New Theatre website.
Matt is starting 2014 by participating in a four-day Masterclass with legendary, L.A. based, acting coach, Ivana Chubbuck.
Matt will be working with Madeleine Kennedy running a scene from ‘Twilight Of The Golds’.
The Masterclass is taking place at the Fig Tree Theatre at UNSW from January 7th to 10th 2014 and Ivana has been brought to Sydney by 16th Street Studios. The basis of the class with be Ivana’s book ‘The Power Of The Actor’. Matt has worked on the Chubbuck technique previously with Anthony Brandon Wong.
This week Matt was on-set for U.S. TV series ‘Deadly Women’ again. He played Boston Prosecutor, Hosea M.Knowlton, the man responsible for the prosecution of Lizzie Borden, the woman acquitted of murdering her parents in the late 1800s.
The episode will air on the Crime & Investigation channel as part of series 8.
The director was John Mavety.
The reviews are coming in…..here are a selection :
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