ACTOR, COACH & TEACHER
My mission is to specialize in training both aspiring and professional actors alike to better prepare, practice, perform and…PLAY!!!
For nearly 3 decades Matt has devoted his time and energy to his craft as an actor and as a teaching artist. He’s been seen both on stages across the country and on screens around the world with some of the biggest names in the industry and studied with some of the most influential educators of his generation.
Since 1995 he has focused his efforts towards working as a professional actor and training young and aspiring actors everywhere. He holds his BFA in Acting from Florida State University and his MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP).
His pursuits have led him from Jacksonville, FL where he started in sweat filled mosquito surrounded out door stages to assisting stars such as Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, and Jim Carrey in Los Angeles. A few short years later he was learning the art of theatre making from icons such as Jewel Walker and Adrian Hall, which aided greatly in his performing in 3 seasons at the Tony Award winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.
He has since been seen in 25 major motion picture and TV projects with such actors as Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, and Angela Bassett.
In 2012 Matt began exploring the world of holistic and somatic healing practices in Asheville, NC where he has resided for the last 15 years. It is there where he began to discover the other part of his true aim - Integrating his art with spirituality to help communities create more authentic lives lived with pleasure passion and purpose.
TRAINING:
Matt Burke is a stage and film actor, voiceover artist, acting teacher and talent coach. He's performed in more than 50 productions on stages across the country and can be seen in more than 20 major films and TV shows with actors such as Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Nicole Kidman and Emily VanCamp. He loves live music, fine wines and laughing out loud with his hysterically funny friends and family.
MFA ACTING - UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - PTTP
Acting: Sanford Robbins, Leslie Reidel
Movement: Jewel Walker, Joann Browning
Voice and Speech: Steve Tague, Deena Burke
BFA ACTING - FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Acting: George Judy, Michael Richey, Jean Lickson, Tony Simotes
Movement: Kate Gelabert
Voice and Speech: Lucinda Holshue
AS ACTING - FLORIDA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Acting: Patricia Crotty, Ed Kelly
SPECIAL SKILLS
Dialects (standard British, Cockney, Southern, Brooklyn, Irish, Scottish, German),
Stage combat (hand to hand, rapier)
COACHING & TEACHING SERVICES
PRIVATE COACHING:
AUDITIONS
MONOLOGUES / SCENE WORK
ON CAMERA
WORKSHOPS:
VOICE / MOVEMENT
TV/FILM
SHAKESPEARE
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT