Matt Dempsey

Training: LIPA.

Theatre credits include: West End/London: Les Misérables – The Staged Concert (Sondheim), ENRON (Noël Coward), Hero in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Peacock/BBC), Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet (Piccadilly), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park); The Witches of Eastwick (Original Cast, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); The Taming of the Shrew (Regent’s Park), The Old Country (Trafalgar Studios), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), The Boyfriend (Regent’s Park), King (Hackney Empire) and Queen of Spades (London Coliseum/ ENO).

Regional credits include: Cabaret (Chichester), Sunset Boulevard (Opera House, Cork), Peter Pan (Palace Theatre, Manchester), Grease (WEI), ENRON (Chichester/UK Tour), And The World Goes Round (Kings Head). Matt is a regular in the Hackney Empire pantos, starring in Jack and The Beanstalk, Cinderella, Mother Goose, Aladdin and Puss in Boots, as well as becoming Associate Director.

Workshops include: King (Hackney Empire), Bousie’s Boys (Boat Arts, Paddington), Meet Mister Future, Insomnia (Cardiff Arts Centre), The Silver Sword (Soho Theatre), The Happy Prince (New Stables) and Volphone (The Globe).

Television credits include: Holby City (BBC), Doctors (BBC), The Trip (BBC), Family Affairs (Channel 5), Elizabeth Virgin Queen (BBC), Paradise Heights (BBC), James Corden’s Crosswalk Musical (Mary Poppins, Les Misérables and Evita) for CBS/Sky, Rhona (BBC) and Jerusalem (Channel 4).

Film credits include: Muppets Most Wanted, Dark Shadows, Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, De-Lovely, The Duchess, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Great Expectations, Dorian Gray and Allied.