MATTHEW HARRISON BIO:
An audition coach, on-set acting coach, and teacher in Los Angeles and Vancouver, Matthew has a wide roster of clients, several working on American series television and sit coms. Last pilot season, two of Matthew's LA coaching clients booked sit coms (NBC and CBS). Several others were coached to guest star roles and feature leads. His regular coaching roster includes Christopher Shyer (The Practice), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Paul Campbell, (Nobody’s Watching), Leah Cairns (Battlestar Gallactica), Michelle Harrison (The Invisible), Meredith McGeachie (Kyle XY), Brooke Nevin (I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer), Tara Wilson (Butterfly Effect), Brandon Jay Mclaren (The Best Years), Ryan Kennedy (The Invisible), Patrick Gallagher (Sideways), Jody Racicot (Flash Gordon), Ryan Kennedy (Whistler), Colby Johannson (Men in Trees). and many more. As an on set coach, Matthew regularly works with high-caliber actors, most recently with Rufus Sewell on next year's feature release Downloading Nancy.

Working at acting schools and studios since 1996 including the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, the William Davis Center, and Trinity Western University, Matthew has developed a distinct and comprehensive technique that has evolved into what is now known as the Actors’ Foundry. A three-part documentary on Matthew’s teaching was filmed in the summer of 2005 as a Trinity Western University/Vankevich Films production. “The Actors Foundry: Acting With Matthew Harrison” will be released early in 2007.

Matthew began a career in the arts as a writing assistant to the award-winning American playwright Frederick Douglas Ward. Doctor Ward sponsored Matthew's education at New York's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse Theater School. After the two year intensive training, Matthew was hired by the National Theater of the Performing Arts and toured the United States. Two years of working with regional theaters landed him in Seattle playing Hamlet at the Washington Shakespeare Festival. He has continued working extensively as an actor in theatre and on screen. Film features include Thirteen Ghosts, Romeo Must Die, The House Next Door. Matthew recently completed three lead roles for Lifetime features: The Last Trimester. Vivid Dreams, and Judicial Indiscretion opposite Anne Archer. His numerous television guest spots include recent television appearances on Smallville, Tru Calling, Stargate, Stargate: Atlantis, The 4400, Reunion and a recurring character on the Canadian series Godiva’s. Coming soon, Matthew plays the Neanderthal Man in the Christmas release Night At The Museum with Ben Stiller and Robin Williams.

Besides acting as teacher, coach, and career counselor, Matthew is often involved in his clients self-created projects as director, producer, sponsor, and coach. In this capacity, he has directed numerous student plays, stage presentations, and short films. The latest project, Coming Home - a fifteen minute short film that Matthew directed and co-wrote with a group of his acting students - is soon to be entering the international film festival circuit. Outside of his client roster, Matthew often directs for theatre. He has directed many successful theatre productions in New York, Los Angeles, and Vancouver including last fall’s world premiere of Ashes in LA’s Theatre Row, the critical and box office success Tape, and last summer’s production of The Shape Of Things for Vancouver’s Playwrights’ Theatre Center.