Matthew Townend – Writer
After accidentally auditioning for a professional pantomime when he was thirteen, Matt discovered his love of all things theatre. He subsequently joined the National Youth Theatre and since then has been involved in every production he could get his grubby little paws on.
It was during the University of Exeter Footlights’ production of Singing in the Rain that Matt met David Massingham and the idea for a comedic musical about the bubonic plague was spawned. Matt directed a University Theatre Company production of Our Country’s Good, in which David played the part of Sideway, and work on Plague! The Musical began in earnest.
In 2006 he wrote and directed the highly successful Pirates in Petticoats which is now being considered for publication.
Matt directed the sell out premier run of Plague! The Musical in 2008 and is currently teaching English in Taiwan.