Faculty
Acting / Music Theatre
AMDA Faculty since: 2023
Matt Kirkwood has been an actor, director, artistic coordinator and producer in Los Angeles theater for the last 35 years. Matt has been on such television shows as Lincoln Lawyer, Criminal Minds, Castle, Boy Meets World, Strong Medicine and Quantum Leap. Film credits include: King Richard, Runners, Abracadabra and the Amazon Prime web series, Seagulls. Theatre credits as an actor include: Moonlight and Magnolias, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial , Our Class , The Goat or, who is Sylvia? , The Lighthouse, Lady, Unseen, Hitler's Head and White People, Metropolitan Prairie, With a Bullet, The Threepenny Opera and The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie. Directing credits include: Coming Attractions, The White House Murder Case, Mall America, Theresa Rebeck's The Family of Mann, Wake, This is Our Youth and Suicide Incorporated. Matt has also taught Acting, and Collaboration Fundamental classes at Hussian College in Los Angeles.
Degrees
B.F.A., Performing Arts: Acting, Emerson College