Matt Dempsey

Training: LIPA

Theatre credits include: West End/London: 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 (Regents Park); The Witches of Eastwick (Original Cast, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); The Taming of the Shrew (Regents 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); Queen of Spades (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 & The Beanstalk; Cinderella; Mother Goose; Aladdin and Puss in Boots. For the last 3 years, he has been the Associate Director for Susie Mckenna at the Empire.

Workshops include: King (Hackney Empire); Meet Mister Future; Insomnia (Cardiff Arts Centre); The Silver Sword (Soho Theatre); The Happy Prince (New Stables); Volphone (The Globe).
TV credits include; James Corden’s Crosswalk Musical (Mary Poppins, Les Miserables and Evita) for CBS/Sky; Holby City (BBC); Doctors (BBC); The Trip (BBC); Family Affairs (Channel 5); Elizabeth Virgin Queen (BBC); Paradise Heights (BBC); 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; Dorien Gray and Allied.