Matthew Xia

For the Royal Court: Wild Child
Other theatre includes: Into The Woods, Brink (Royal Exchange); Blue/Orange, The Sound of Yellow, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (Young Vic); Migration Music, Scrappers (Liverpool Everyman); When Chaplin Met Gandhi (Eastlea Theatre Company); The Wiz (WAC Performing Arts/Media College); Soundbites: Ruth The Divorcee and Barry The Love-sick Bee (Lyric Theatre Studio/Bestival); Urban Development, The Blacks (Theatre Royal Stratford East); In His Hands (Urban Theatre).
As Co-Director: Cinderella, I Was Looking At The Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
As Associate Director: Mad Blud, Aladdin (Theatre Royal Stratford East)
As Assistant Director credits include: The Misanthrope (Liverpool Everyman) and Blackta (Young Vic).
Composing/Sound Design includes: Paralympics Opening Ceremony (DJ); That’s The Way To Do It (Time Won’t Wait) and Squid (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
Matthew is Associate Artistic Director at The Royal Exchange Theatre. He was previously Director in Residence at The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Associate Director at Theatre Royal Stratford East.