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Matt Lee is a leading international dance personality, creative director and choreographer. Growing up and training in Australia, he has starred in television and stage productions all over the world and over the past twenty years has carved out an impressive reputation as one of the top Australian creative forces in the business.

Matt has worked alongside the likes of Paula Abdul, Hugh Jackman, Kenny Ortega, Ben Elton and created and choreographed for Samantha Jade, Hilary Duff, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Nathaniel Willemse, Gabriella Cilmi, Marcia Hines, Christine Anu, Human Nature and Ricky Martin. Matt choreographed the world premier performance of Martin's single Come With Me on Channel 9’s The Voice as well as re-staging his American billboard award performance of VIDA for the show’s third season. Matt also choreographed Martin’s Australian NRL Grand Final performance, featuring Jessica Mauboy, which played to a capacity stadium of 90,000 and to millions of people in their lounge rooms across the country. Matt was choreographer for Australian artist sister2sister who toured the world with Five, B*witched and Britney Spears. Matt worked as rehearsal director for Sony artist Timomatic on many live events across Australia and was part of the creative team for his music video's Parachute and Everything is Allowed.

Matt was a permanent member of the judging panel, as well as choreographer for the Logie Award winning TV series So You Think You Can Dance Australia which earned him a Logie nomination for Most Popular New Talent. Matt worked as resident choreographer on multiple seasons of the Australian TV series The Voice and Australia's Got Talent. Matt has also choreographed multiple Australian award shows including The TV Week Logie Awards, The AACTA's and The Helpmann's.

Whilst residing in the UK for 3 years, Matt was choreographer and rehearsal director for  Internationally acclaimed A cappella band The Magnets, staging their new show The Naked 80's  which they performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In the musical theatre world, which is one of his key creative passions moving forward, he has most recently choreographed The Fix, a musical by John Dempsey and Dana Rowe which was performed by the BA Musical Theatre class at The Guildford School of Acting in London. After returning to Australia, Matt choreographed for Channel 7's new dance series 'DANCE BOSS' hosted by Danni Minogue and continues to be in demand as a creative, working on the previous Network 10 reboot of Dancing with the Stars, The Voice and The Masked Singer. Matt has most recently been working with ARIA award winning artist Samantha Jade on her new music including Bounce and New Boy

 

PERFORMER

Matt began working in television and theatre at the age of 7 and has had an expansive career over the last 35 years playing roles in such shows as RENT, Grease: The Arena Spectacular, Oh! What a Night, Rags, Miss Saigon, Hot Shoe Shuffle, The Witches of Eastwick, Hugh Jackman's: The Boy From OZ, Singin' in the Rain and We Will Rock You

Matt had the pleasure of performing the role of Bert in Disney and Cameron Macintosh's production of Mary Poppins in Australia, New Zealand and more recently on the 2015 UK and International tour which completed an impressive 2 year run. He won the prestigious 2011 Helpmann Award in Australia for Best Male Actor in a Musical for this role.

Matt was a part of the principal motion capture team on the Oscar and BAFTA winning film Happy Feet, where he played the role of the tap dancing penguin Mumble. Prior to this, Matt played the character Johnno in Dein Perry's film BOOTMEN starring Sam Worthington and Adam Garcia which was adapted from the internationally acclaimed award winning stage show Tap Dogs.

In 2014, Matt joined fellow Australian leading men Ben Mingay, Luke Kennedy, Rob Mills and Michael Falzon in Swing On This: a show of classic swing songs reworked with a more contemporary style, as well as more recent popular music arranged for an 18 piece big band. The show debuted to a sold out season at the Adelaide cabaret festival and they have continued to perform sell out shows all over Australia well into 2019.

Matt reunited with Broadway star Caroline O'Connor in the neglected musicals production of APPLAUSE where he played the role of Duane Fox, directed and choreographed by Cameron Mitchell.

Most recently Matt appeared as Olaf in the Australian premier of Disney's Frozen The Musical opening at Sydney's Capitol Theatre from December 2020 and continued on a nation tour right through to 2023 where the show played its final performance in Singapore. Next up, Matt is thrilled to be originating the role of Andrè/Mr Abernathy in the brand new Australian Musical Midnight: The Cinderella Musical written by Dean Murphy and Pip Mushin with music by Anthony Costanzo and John Foreman, due to open at the Comedy Theatre Melbourne 2023. 

 
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