Matt Sigl
Height: 5’9” Hair: Brown
Weight: 140 Voice: Tenor
AEA MEMBER
Past Experience:
Charlotte's Web - Wilbur
TheatreworksUSA
My Fair Lady - Servant/Footman
Sacramento Music Circus
(dir. Glenn Casale)
The Grouch - Pyrrhias
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey(STNJ)
Henry V - Duke Of York
STNJ- Next Stage Ensemble
Beggar’s Opera - Beggar, et.al.
STNJ-Next Stage Ensemble
Macbeth - Witch
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Student Prince - Freshman
The Gallery Players
House of Blue Leaves - Ronnie
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
(Peter Flynn dir.)
Trust - Roy
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
(Peter Flynn dir.)
Fully Committed - Sam(et.al)
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Angels in America: Perestroika - Prior
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Proof - Hal
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
(dir. Scott Freeman)
Assassins - Guiteau
RASH Theatre Company
A Funny Thing Happened….. - Hero
Fair Oaks Theatre Festival
Torch Song Trilogy - David
Amercian River College
How to Succeed In Business… - Finch
Sacramento Visual and Performing Arts Centre
Babes In Arms - Peter
Woodland Opera House
Television
Commercial---KCRA Channel 3, Sacramento
Host---Kid-O-Vision---UPN 31 Sacramento
Voice Over—Father’s Day Special---UPN 31 Sacramento
Other/ Awards
MAC Award Winner - 2006 Best Male Debut
Cabaret Hotline Online Award - 2005 Outstanding Cabaret Debut Performance
Lenaea Festival---Ultimate Gold Recipient---Acting
Woodland Opera House Chesly Award---The Artful Dodger, Oliver!
Training
Acting:
BFA-NYU Tisch: Stella Adler Conservatory,
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
James Tripp, Earl Gister, Ron Burrus,
Lisa Benevides, Frank Langella
Voice:
Elizabeth Parrish, Jack Lee,
Robert Perillo, Beth McGuire
Directing
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Stella Adler Conservatory
The Fantasticks, self-produced
Dance and Special Skills
3 years Ballet, 1 Tap, 1 Jazz, Dialects, Impressions.
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Born the son of an all-girl Catholic High School Drama teacher in Sacramento, California, Matt has been groomed from the start for a life treading the boards. Although he longed to be a mad scientist at the time, Matt made his theatrical debut in his first grade talent show with his one-man performance of Jack and the Beanstalk, a show he hopes to one day turn into his own Hal Holbrook-ian cash cow. Most of his other early performances were found in Christmas pageants and school concerts, although, while still a second grader, he received rave notices in the local papers for his job as a trivia-spouting usher at a community theatre production of Pal Joey. A breakthrough came in the summer before fifth grade when he was cast as Biondello in a real, grown-up (!) production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. He performed consistently after that, grasping at every opportunity he could to take the stage. Over the next 9 years, he was seen at community theatres and colleges all around the greater Sacramento area playing roles like Jason in Falsettos, The Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Joe Crowell in Our Town, a Neo-Nazi youth in God’s Country and his favorite, David in Torch Song Trilogy.
High School Drama brought Matt the opportunity to play some of his favorite roles including Mayor Shinn in The Music Man, The Wiz in The Wiz (don’t ask!), Felix in The Odd Couple, The Old Actor in The Fantasticks, Dad in Steve Martin’s WASP (which won him the coveted Ultimate Gold Medal acting award at Sacramento State University’s massive Lenaea Festival), Albert in Bye Bye Birdie, The Baker in Into The Woods (which garnered Matt an Elly award, Sacramento’s miniature version of the Tony), Peter in Babes In Arms (Elly nomination), Hero in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Jerry in The Zoo Story and his favorite role in all of musical theatre, Finch in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Elly nomination).
For his higher education, Matt trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, both through New York University. He received his BFA in Acting and was honored with the Stella Adler Award upon graduation. While in college, Matt continued to act as often as he could both in-school and outside of the NYU community. During his freshman year, he played a speck of dust in a pantomime ballet about, well, a speck of dust. From this oh-so-auspicious NY debut he moved onto roles in The Student Prince (the Gallery players), Rodgers and Hart’s Dearest Enemy (New York Civic Light Opera), Guiteau in Assassins (RASH Theatre Co.) and Pyrrhias in Menander's The Grouch (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), his professional debut. At school, he was seen as a witch in Macbeth (RADA), Prior in Angels in America: Perestroika (Adler), Hal in Proof (Adler), The Beadle in Artaud’s The Spurt of Blood (NYU) and Ronnie in The House of Blue Leaves, directed by Peter Flynn (Adler). Matt produced and starred in the one-man comedy Fully Committed and produced and directed a rarely-approved student production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He also produced and directed a New York Production of The Fantasticks. In 2005, Matt made his NYC Cabaret debut at Don’t Tell Mama with his acclaimed show, Unstuck In Time (Cabaret Hotline Online Award - Outstanding Cabaret Debut Performance; MAC Award Winner - Best Male Debut).
Matt is a MAC member and a member of the Actors' Equity Association. He currently resides in Manhattan and he hopes to never leave, save for his future summer home in the Hamptons.
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