Matthew Whittet

Matthew Whittet is an actor and writer who has worked extensively in theatre, film and television over the past 19 years. As a writer Matt’s first produced play was Silver for Belvoir Downstairs in Sydney, Australia. In 2010 two further plays premiered in Adelaide; Fugitive (Windmill) and Harbinger (Brink Productions). In the same year, Matt was the Philip Parsons Young Playwright Award recipient sparking the development of the play Old Man which premiered at Belvoir’s 2012 season. His collaboration with Windmill has resulted in four plays with Girl Asleep being the most recent. Its predecessors are the Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Awards winning School Dance and Big Bad Wolf. His other plays include Cinderella, Fight With All Your Might The Zombies of Tonight and Twelve. He was among the seven Sidney Myer Creative Fellows chosen in 2012. He also wrote the screenplay for the award-winning feature film Girl Asleep, which was released internationally at the end of 2016.