About Matt

Matt Cahill (he/they) is a NYC and Maine based performer, educator of performers, and creative producer for the next generation of performers and stories that seek to make the world a better place.

PERFORMER

Highlights of his performance career include starring as Papageno in Peter Brook’s Molière Award-winning adaptation of Mozart’s Magic Flute, Une Flûte Enchanté at the Théatre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and on the subsequent international tour, singing as a soloist with the London and Boston Symphony Orchestras, at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, dancing in the movie The Producers!, and performing at BAM, ART, and New York City Opera. As Le Monde in Paris declared, “you really want to hear him in either an opera or a musical. He has a big presence, a warm baritone voice, immense humanity, and the gift of an actor.”

His ongoing pursuit of performing at the highest level led him to receive his B.M. voice from the Juilliard School, M.M. vocal arts from Bard College Conservatory, a summer as an apprentice with Santa Fe Opera, two summers as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, three summers at the Aspen Music Festival, a summer at L’Academie du Festival d’Aix, as well as training in acting with Eve Shapiro, Lecoq with Marcello Magni and Richard Crawford, and Meisner Technique at Ward Studios.

EDUCATOR

As an educator Matt currently teaches Alexander Technique at the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera and the Circle in the Square Theatre School. In addition he maintains a private studio in both NYC and Maine where he teaches Alexander Technique, voice, and acting.

From 2018-2022, he created and acted as lead artist faculty for Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard’s voice and musical theater programs. From 2012-2017 Matt was associate artistic director at SongFest where he developed a new curriculum of singing-acting training for the young artists, and conceived, produced and directed a tour of “Songs in the Key of LA” with LA Opera and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. He has been faculty at Bard College-Conservatory, Brooklyn College, and Montclair State University, where he taught acting for singers, private voice, career seminars, and directed the opera workshops. Highlights include directing the New York premiere of Ana Sokoloviç’s Svadba at Brooklyn College.

Matt has been invited to lead workshops for singing, acting, and Alexander Technique across the country at pre-eminent institutions includings NATS-NYC, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Dessoff Choirs, ARS Musica Chorale, Adelphi University, Schmidt Vocal Arts, and the Visceral Voice.

His training as a teacher of bodywork includes AmSAT certification as an Alexander Technique Teacher from the Balance Arts Center, certification from The Developing Self for teaching Alexander Technique in educational insitutions, certification as a Reiki Level 2 Healer from Kristine Keegan, and completion of courses on the Body of Singing and Self-Care for singers with Christine Schneider at The Visceral Voice.

As a teacher of singing-acting, he has completed certification in all levels of The LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™, levels 1 & 2 of Estill Voice Training with Tom Burke, level 1 of Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin’s Soul Ingredients™ training in American folk music styles, and Sheri Sanders’ Rock the Audition training in pop/rock styles. His singing teaching mixes lessons from master teachers he has worked with including Billy Gollner, Patricia McCaffrey, Gerald Martin Moore, Edith Bers, Deb Birnbaum, W. Stephen Smith, Dr. Stephen King, Neil Semer, Claudia Catania, Claudia Friedlander, and Cynthia Hoffmann.

His passion for understanding the energetic flow between mind and body, words and music, has led him outside of the standard realms of artist training and into the natural world where he is now pursuing his certification as a Maine Master Gardener in service of creating a new regenerative arts center at Hogfish.

CREATIVE PRODUCER

In 2021 with his husband director and writer Edwin Cahill, Matt co-founded Hogfish, a regenerative arts and artist cultivation company in Maine and NYC, dedicated to holistically cultivating the next generation of artists, building a more inclusive canon, and bridging divides through the arts. In its first few seasons, Hogfish has been featured in Down East Magazine, as well as the Portland Press Herald for its unique regenerative arts residency in Southern Maine and productions which live at the intersection of wellness, social justice, and climate change.

In 2023, Matt was selected as a participant of the BMP Producer Academy, which fosters the next generation of creative producers.

An avid activist for equal rights Matt has produced and performed in the concert series You Are Not Alone alongside Betty Buckley, Lea DeLaria, Aaron Lazar, Ricky Ian Gordon, John Tartaglia, Jeanine Tesori, and many more. The concerts have raised tens of thousands of dollars for The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention hotline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

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