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PAST PROJECTS

If you want further information about any of these projects, including collaborators, please follow the links or get in touch.

FutureScape by Future Inc

FutureScape by Future Inc

Bastille Label: Universal Music My role: Writing and directing three immersive audio experiences as bonus content on a limited edition run of their brilliant album, GIVE ME THE FUTURE. Collaborator, co-creator and sound design: Stephen Dobbie Image description: A head and shoulders shot of an open-mouthed, smiling Dan Smith; a stubbled white man with brown wavy hair. His head is tilted upwards, eyes wide and fully white. He has an electrical implant attached to his temple.

An Evening With Tara Boland

An Evening With Tara Boland

Tara Boland Gilded Balloon, Teviot My role: Director Photo: Stephen Dobbie Image description: A headshot of a manically smiling woman, staring blankly off into the distance. She wears bright red lipstick with scraped back hair and a black t-shirt, that disappears into the dark black background.

Three Day Millionaire

Three Day Millionaire

My role: Actor (Trevor the drag hypnotist) Director: Jack Spring Writer: Paul Stephenson Cinematographer: Andrew Rodger Producer: Giles Anderson Image description: Eight people, seven of whom are smartly dressed, sit closely together along banquette seating in a darkly but colourfully lit working men's club. They are all looking out towards the viewer.

Milky Peaks

Milky Peaks

Theatr Clwyd / Aine Flanagan and Seiriol Davies Production My Role: Associate Director, Co-Devisor and Performer Image description: Image description: A giant orange and yellow neon sign saying, "Milky Peaks" with a blue arrow pointing downwards looms over a white line drawing of an outline of row of houses. In the background there is a purple silhouette of a mountain range.

Deadhouse

Deadhouse

Darkfield / BBC Radio Four My role: Associate Director Directed by: Glen Neath (also writer) and David Rosenberg (also sound design) Image description: A hand-drawn picture of a jawless skull with the top removed and a heart in the place where the brain should be. The background is black with yellow stars and a white arch adorned with black runic symbols surrounds it.

The Third Day: Autumn

The Third Day: Autumn

Salt disciples, Soil guards, Sam (Jude Law), Women of Jerusalem, Veronica (Florence Welch) Sky studios / HBO production in partnership with Punchdrunk Directed by: Marc Munden and Felix Barrett My role: Associate Director Photo: Still from the live broadcast Image description: In long grass, shrouded heads face away from us whilst a dishevelled man faces us. He holds a rope, attached to a small rowboat. Behind him, a procession, to his side a titian woman in white. The mood is sombre.

One Legged Dog at The Moth Club

One Legged Dog at The Moth Club

Jan McDonald - Sister of Jane A Jubba Production My role: (well, strictly, it's Jan's role) Host and Chanteuse Photo: Richard Hanson Image description: A lady in a leopard print skintight dress stands in front of a gold glitter curtain whilst holding up a framed picture of Jane McDonald wearing the same dress. Both women look happy and confident

Teenage Austen: Theatrical Shorts

Teenage Austen: Theatrical Shorts

Zoe Moore and Rachel Barnwell in "Charles Adams" written by Leopold Benedict A Palma Studios production commissioned by Jane Austen House. My role: mentor & performance director for the young actors making 6 short films based on Austen's teenage writings. Image description: Two young women wearing Regency clothing are drinking wine and looking, grossed out, at a phone screen.

ActualQuest

ActualQuest

Peter and David McWizard A Lime Pictures Homemakers commission My role: original concept / visual design / editor Image description: 2 fabulous looking covered in gold and black tulle pop out from behind a sparkly graphic that reads ActualQuest. The image is reminiscent of 90's video games, such as Sonic the Hedgehog.

Double Vision

Double Vision

Lisa Jên Brown and Mared Jarman Company: Gagglebabble and Wales Millennium Centre My role: director Photo: Rhys Cozens Written by: Lucy Rivers & Hannah McPake Design by: Hayley Grindle Lighting / Video design by: Joshua Pharo Sound design by: Elena Peña Image description: Two shadowy women stand in front of a bright glowing light. one woman, who is facing us, wears a yellow coat and red dress and is reaching out to the other woman, who is facing away from us, clutching her chest.

How To Win Against History

How To Win Against History

Seiriol Davies, Me My role: devisor / performer Photo: Kristina Banholzer Image description: two men, one in victorian waistcoat and pink cravat, one in a sequinned, blue dress with golden epaulettes, press their cheeks together.

The Oracles

The Oracles

Brave audience member Company: Punchdrunk enrichment (Tech collaboration with Google creative lab and Grumpy Sailor) My role: writer / director / game designer Photo: Paul Cochrane Image description: A young girl, around 10 years old, goes to open a wooden door whilst holding a glowing lantern. She is wearing a blue and grey school uniform and is looking away from the door.

Looking Through Glass

Looking Through Glass

Robert Bowman, François Pandolfo, Nicola Reynolds Company: Difficult|stage / The Other Room My role: director Photo: Kieran Cudlip Image description: A man wearing bright red jumper with a christmas tree on the front is inside a white recording studio. In the corner is a man in a white vest and white Y-fronts, standing in a sealed glass box. A sharply dressed, blonde bobbed woman stands outside the studio and talks to the men via a hand held microphone.

Heart & Soul Girlband

Heart & Soul Girlband

Ja'armpagne, Chemixe, Shaniqua Company: Gideon Reeling My role: performer / co-creator Image: James Wright Image description: Three horrendously gorgeous women, wear heavy make up and pose in front of a gaudy logo of a pink heart with the letters H & S inside. The women all wear black sparkly clothes.

Greenhive Green

Greenhive Green

Grace, a key member of GHG Committee My role: writer / director Photo: Paul Cochrane Image description: An elderly woman sits sideways facing you, wearing a black velvet turban and a red and yellow silk kimono.

STARTY

STARTY

Vi, Mary, Flic (at the Mardi Gras Fritarty) Company: Gideon Reeling My role: writer / performer Photo: Rah Petheridge Image description: Three women wearing garish clothes, wigs and mardi gras beads and feathers, sit at a gingham table covered with pancakes and lemons. The woman on the left grimaces with a frying pan in her hand. the woman on the right frowns whilst holding a gold medal. The woman in the middle is holding a ukulele has a pancake covering her face.

Beneath the Streets: Lost and Found

Beneath the Streets: Lost and Found

Gaynor Loughnor, Kirsty Rosser Company: Hijinx / Punchdrunk Enrichment My role: director / devisor Photo: Malwina Matusiewicz Image description: Two women identically dressed stand in front of a metal roller door. One is in the background and one stands in the foreground. They wear a white blouse and a red neck scarf.

Muse of Fire - Muse Catcher

Muse of Fire - Muse Catcher

Me Company: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre My role: writer / performer Photo: Alex Harvey-Brown Image description: A man wears a green boiler suit and squats on a tree stump. He mid sentence. In the foreground, out of focus, we see the back of a person listening to the other man talk. The floor is covered in green and at the top of the photo there are some leaves.

Beneath The Streets

Beneath The Streets

Entire company Company: Hijinx / Beneath The Streets My role: director / devisor Photo: Simon Gough Image description: A group of people look out towards you. They are all wearing similar colours of brown and are crouching, close to one another.

Stories Tour (Awayawhere)

Stories Tour (Awayawhere)

Hemi Yeroham as Tortoise with an amused audience member Company: Book Trust My Role: director / devisor Photo: Lizzie Poulton Image description: A bespectacled man wearing green clothes, a green backpack and green beanie hat kneels down to talk to an excited young girl who is smiling.

The House Where Winter Lives

The House Where Winter Lives

Me, Frances Moulds Company: Punchdrunk enrichment My role: co-writer / performer Photo: Stephen Dobbie Image description: A man and a woman poke their heads out of a hole. They are wearing woollen hats and look surprised. The surrounding area is covered in leaves and ivy.

The Faculty at Curious Knowledge

The Faculty at Curious Knowledge

Barra Collins, Adam Redmore, Skeleton (unknown), Alfie Boyd, Jo Bowis My role: director Photo: John Sturrock and Benedict Johnson Image description: A group of five people dressed in old fashioned teaching robes and mortar boards, walk towards you, pushing a skeleton on a trolley. Two of the people are carrying briefcases.

Crash of The Elysium

Crash of The Elysium

Me Company: BBC / Punchdrunk My role: performer Photo: Graham Michael Image description: A tall man dress in camouflage stands in front of an open door. Around him is rubble. He looks directly at you and has a moustache.

The Good Neighbour - Momentorium

The Good Neighbour - Momentorium

Me Company: Kirsty Harris and Battersea Arts Centre My role: co-creator / writer / performer / director Photo: James Allen Image description: A man wearing a beige coat and white shirt, crouches behind a table full of glowing jars. He catches water dripping from above him in a half full jar.

The Dead Victorians - Band

The Dead Victorians - Band

Mr Sandiford, Myself (Doctor Blake) Rupert and Maestro My role: performer / collaborator / medic Photo: Jayde Adams Image description: Four well-dressed gentlemen with top hats stand in a row, in an overgrown graveyard in the daytime with various instruments including tuba, balalaika, bass drum and accordion.

© Matthew Blake 2023

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