by mattgall | Aug 5, 2021 | ACTOR
Misalliance Repertory Theatre has premiered its debut production, starring Matt as a wealthy Parliamentarian bumbling his way through a scandal and falling in love with a voracious concert pianist along the way in G.B. Shaw’s facetious musical comedy, The Music...
by mattgall | Jul 25, 2021 | ACTOR
Live theatre is back in Chicago after the long pandemic shutdown! And the first professional, Equity production in the Chicago area is The Tempest at Matt’s home company, Oak Park Festival Theatre. This sharp production, set on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,...
by mattgall | Mar 3, 2021 | FILM, PRODUCER
In February of 2021, Matt associate-produced a new feature, The Willowbrook, a thriller by writer/director Zach Koepp. Set in the cold isolation of a rural, Midwestern winter, a renowned health and wellness influencer invites one of her recently overdosed followers,...
by mattgall | Jan 10, 2021 | ACTOR, DIRECTOR, FILM
“In January of 2020, cinematographer Ken Ozuna and I were prepping a low-budget short I had written and was going to direct and that he was going to shoot. We went Downtown in Chicago one afternoon to test his lenses and get a handful of atmospheric...
by mattgall | Apr 19, 2020 | ACTOR, DIRECTOR, FILM
In early April, Matt competed in the Without Precedent Film Festival, a 48-hour Quarantine Film Fest for Talkhouse.com. Equipped only with an iPhone and the parameter that it had to be made entirely with resources available at home, Matt and Erika Sassmann...
