Matt was born and brought up in Southport, Merseyside and trained at the Guildford School of Acting. 

He most recently completed the final workshop of the Cat Stevens musical Moonshadow (as "Moonshadow") and created the part of "Old Berger" in a new production of the Musical HAIR at the English Theatre, Frankfurt.

In 2007 he appeared in the UK Tour of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show (in the role of "Riff Raff").

Before joining the RHS he appeared in Tim Rice and Stephen Oliver's musical,  'Blondel' at the Pleasance Theatre, playing the part of Prince John. A rival of the 1983 version, starring Paul Nicholas.

He has had a long association with the Cameron Mackintosh production of Les Miserables, both at the Palace Theatre and the Queens Theatre, playing Grantaire, cover Thenardier, and also as Dance Captain. He also had the pleasure of performing a concert version, as Grantaire, in front of the Queen and President Chirac, for the celebrations of 100 years of the Entente Cordial, t Windsor Castle, and also as Bamatabois in the First Scandinavian Concert Tour.

Other theatre credits include: My Fair Lady (National tour), Ensemble and cover Harry/Zoltan Karpathy, Sunset Boulevard (First National Tour) 1st Finance Man, cover Manfred, Anyone Can Whistle in Concert (Savoy Theatre), Cora's Boy, A Handful of Keys (Prince Edward Theatre), directed by Julia McKenzie, The Trial of Joe K (Brockley Jack Theatre) Uncle Karl in Adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial.

Also for Les Miserables, he appeared on Tonight at The London Palladium and for the  21st Birthday Celebration, broadcast on BBC Radio 2.