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Matthew Cassar

MA Performance Design Student


Biography

Matthew is training to be a Performance Designer at BOVTS. He recently graduated from the University of Malta with a BA (Hons) in Performing Arts. He also spent a year studying Theatre and Drama at the University of Lincoln. Matthew’s artistic repertoire in production design is an array of different works with various established local Maltese companies in a variety of different sectors. His skills range from designing and making sets, costumes, and props to coordinating productions from the artistic side of things.

Previous credits include: Patience (Salesian Theatre); My Fair Lady (MCC); After Medea (Mosta Amphitheatre); Us/Them (Splendid); Hush (Manoel Theatre); Baxx Baxx (Manoel Theatre); Sleeping Beauty the Panto (Manoel Theatre). BOVTS credits include: The Red Shoes, The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories (Theatre in Education Tour); Picnic at Hanging Rock (Wardrobe Theatre); Newfrock (Bristol Old Vic Theatre).

It was always stressed that the contacts you make during your training are incredibly important, and your classmates are likely to end up being on set alongside you in the future. After working with a director of photography on one of the School’s short films, I was invited to work on a project with him outside of Bristol - proving that the professionals we meet via the School, may one day give us a call to action! Muir McFadden, Technical Graduate