Matt Hawkins biography

Matt Hawkins

At Writers Theatre: Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, Witch, Buried Child, East Texas Hot Links, Julius Caesar, A Streetcar Named Desire, Do the Hustle, The Caretaker

Matt is a Chicago based director, actor, fight choreographer, movement director and intimacy choreographer. He has been nominated for fourteen Jeff Awards and has received five. He holds a BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University and an MFA in directing from The University of Iowa. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, where he serves as head of the musical theatre for the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre. This upcoming year he will direct and choreograph a new hip-hop musical Stupid Humans (University of Notre Dame) and choreograph violence for Act(s) Of God (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Hamlet and Short Shakes! Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Matt is married to actor/director/documentarian/playwright Stacy Stoltz.

[Bio as of August 2018]