Matt Young is an American born, Australian actor living in Brisbane.
SAG/AFTRA, AEA, MEAA
MATT YOUNG is a former Broadway dancer who is best known for playing James Cook in CAPTAIN COOK: OBSESSION AND DISCOVERY on television for Australia's ABC and Canada's History Channel. The show was also adapted for BBC's TIMEWATCH.
He has appeared on screen in Hallmark's A SUMMER TO REMEMBER and PEARL IN PARADISE, TBS's WRECKED, Netflix's GAYBY BABY, independent faith-based film THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN 2, and short films LIFE COACH, UGH! and DANNY (2020 Gold Coast Film Festival Emerge programme).
Stage credits include Broadway and International tours of ANNIE, THE PRODUCERS (original Australian cast), and A CHORUS LINE, as well as lead roles in ENRON, GOODBYE MISS MONROE and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, YANK!, and SMILEY. Matt revisited THE PRODUCERS in the role of Max Bialystock to critical acclaim for Brisbane's Altitude Theatre in 2021.
He is an acting and speaking coach (TEDx SUVA, PACIFIC VOICES IN UNISON), and is the head tutor and founder of TUKUNA ACTING CLUB(Fiji). He acted as the Fiji Casting Director for #BLACK AF on Netflix. In Brisbane, he has coached actors for The Creative's Hub and The Factory Acting Studio.
He is the host of the storytelling event (and podcast), THE STORY CHUNDER which is recorded live at BackDock Arts in Brisbane, Australia.
Australian Agency:
https://fortitudetalent.com.au/
jaiden@fortitudetalent.com
He has appeared on screen in Hallmark's A SUMMER TO REMEMBER and PEARL IN PARADISE, TBS's WRECKED, Netflix's GAYBY BABY, independent faith-based film THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN 2, and short films LIFE COACH, UGH! and DANNY (2020 Gold Coast Film Festival Emerge programme).
Stage credits include Broadway and International tours of ANNIE, THE PRODUCERS (original Australian cast), and A CHORUS LINE, as well as lead roles in ENRON, GOODBYE MISS MONROE and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, YANK!, and SMILEY. Matt revisited THE PRODUCERS in the role of Max Bialystock to critical acclaim for Brisbane's Altitude Theatre in 2021.
He is an acting and speaking coach (TEDx SUVA, PACIFIC VOICES IN UNISON), and is the head tutor and founder of TUKUNA ACTING CLUB(Fiji). He acted as the Fiji Casting Director for #BLACK AF on Netflix. In Brisbane, he has coached actors for The Creative's Hub and The Factory Acting Studio.
He is the host of the storytelling event (and podcast), THE STORY CHUNDER which is recorded live at BackDock Arts in Brisbane, Australia.
Australian Agency:
https://fortitudetalent.com.au/
jaiden@fortitudetalent.com
LATEST NEWS:
Classic Australian Play for Online Reading Sat August 21
Australia’s busiest production house since Covid-19 first hit last year presents a special lockdown on-line charity reading of Nick Enright’s St James Infirmary… in aid of the Actors’ Benevolent Fund.
Lambert House Enterprises who gave Sydney so many acclaimed productions in the last two years (Jasper Jones, The Credeaux Canvas, Shape of Things, Fag/Stag, The One Day of the Year and Three Winters Green etc etc) are delighted to announce - during the current Sydney lock down - a special Zoom reading of Nick Enright’s classic play: ST JAMES INFIRMARY.
The one-off performance performed on Zoom, Saturday 21 August at 7.30pm, stars many of the last two years’ brightest young talents including Rachel Marley, Samson Alston, Tom Kelly and Callum Slater, joined by veterans Norah George and Matt Young and narrated by Samuel Welsh
Says producer-director Les Solomon: “The Actors Benevolent Fund is doing amazing work right now through this long and difficult period for actors, helping those out of work or those stood down by the lockdown. So an evening to benefit this wonderful organisation seems very appropriate.”
The evening is sponsored by that equally great supporter of the arts and actors - the Seaborn, Broughton, Walford (SBW) Foundation.
Nick Enright’s play – which exploded into prominence in the mid-1990s when it was performed by NIDA, the Q theatre, then both the Sydney and Melbourne Theatre companies - is a story of a young teenage firebrand obsessed with Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Trapped in the confines of a Catholic school hospital infirmary, his friendship with the new matron and a dedicated priest draw out a deeply affecting story.
Nick Enright’s St James Infirmary: Streamed Live Saturday August 21ST at 7.30PM
All tickets $15 Bookings through www.trybooking.com/BTIZQ
Australia’s busiest production house since Covid-19 first hit last year presents a special lockdown on-line charity reading of Nick Enright’s St James Infirmary… in aid of the Actors’ Benevolent Fund.
Lambert House Enterprises who gave Sydney so many acclaimed productions in the last two years (Jasper Jones, The Credeaux Canvas, Shape of Things, Fag/Stag, The One Day of the Year and Three Winters Green etc etc) are delighted to announce - during the current Sydney lock down - a special Zoom reading of Nick Enright’s classic play: ST JAMES INFIRMARY.
The one-off performance performed on Zoom, Saturday 21 August at 7.30pm, stars many of the last two years’ brightest young talents including Rachel Marley, Samson Alston, Tom Kelly and Callum Slater, joined by veterans Norah George and Matt Young and narrated by Samuel Welsh
Says producer-director Les Solomon: “The Actors Benevolent Fund is doing amazing work right now through this long and difficult period for actors, helping those out of work or those stood down by the lockdown. So an evening to benefit this wonderful organisation seems very appropriate.”
The evening is sponsored by that equally great supporter of the arts and actors - the Seaborn, Broughton, Walford (SBW) Foundation.
Nick Enright’s play – which exploded into prominence in the mid-1990s when it was performed by NIDA, the Q theatre, then both the Sydney and Melbourne Theatre companies - is a story of a young teenage firebrand obsessed with Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Trapped in the confines of a Catholic school hospital infirmary, his friendship with the new matron and a dedicated priest draw out a deeply affecting story.
Nick Enright’s St James Infirmary: Streamed Live Saturday August 21ST at 7.30PM
All tickets $15 Bookings through www.trybooking.com/BTIZQ
