Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre
Frasier 24
970.351.2520
matthew.herrick@unco.edu
Matthew Herrick is a multi-faceted theatre artist and educator, recently transplanted from NYC to beautiful Greeley, CO, as an Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Northern Colorado.
Matthew has taught singing, acting, and voice/speech throughout NYC and beyond. He has maintained a private voice studio in NYC , Texas, and Utah for 10 years. His students can be seen in leading roles on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours, Disney parks, and major regional theatres throughout the country. He has been an instructor of singing, acting, and speech at NYU Tisch School of the Arts at CAP21, The University of Texas at Austin, and various private studios throughout NYC and Utah. He also served as the resident voice/speech coach for Theatre East and Handcart Ensemble in NYC. With his equal understanding of singing, acting, speech, and dancing, Matthew believes in developing musical theatre actors through continual inter-disciplinary correlative training - where the actor, singer, and dancer are 'one.' In addition to his teaching, Matthew has musical directed and directed for many professional and community theatres and studios in NYC, Texas, and Utah.
As a performer, he has worked throughout the industry, from musical theatre to Greek drama, to soap operas, commercials, concerts, cruise ships and beyond. He is a company member of two New York-based theatre companies, Handcart Ensemble and Theatre East, where he serves as an actor, speech/dialect coach, and musical director.
Select NYC acting credits include: As The World Turns, National commercials for Verizon Wireless and the Olive Garden, the pre-Broadway readings of Children of Eden with Stephen & Scott Schwartz; Apollo/Prometheus in the NY premiere of Euripides' Alcestis, adapted by Ted Hughes, Haemon in Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Antigone; and readings for BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Theatre East, Museum of Jewish Heritage, and others. Select Regional/University theatre credits include: Holland America Cruise Lines, Jamie in The Last 5 Years, Moliere/Harpagon in Suzan Zeder’s adaptation of The Miser, Marius in Les Miserables, Adam in Children of Eden, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jed in The Fifth of July, Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, Kulygin in The Three Sisters, Richard III, Joseph in Joseph…Dreamcoat, and many more. As President of the BYU Young Ambassadors, Matthew toured to South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland.
As a singer, Matthew made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in The Gift of Music, and premiered his solo-cabaret act, Only Heaven Knows, at Don't Tell Mama in midtown Manhattan. He also appeared as a soloist alongside Tommy Tune and Linda Eder in the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the U.T. Performing Arts Center in Austin, TX.
He received his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The University of Texas at Austin and his BFA in Musical Dance Theatre from Brigham Young University. Matthew is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association, Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and the National Association for Teachers of Singing.
He is happily married with 3 beautiful and rambunctious children, slowly adjusting to suburban life.
www.matthewherrick.net
