Matthew Lutton

Matthew Lutton (born 28 July 1984) is an Australian theatre and opera director.

Lutton was born at Perth, Western Australia. He attended Perth's Hale School, graduating in 2001. From 2002 to 2004 he studied Theatre Arts at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and in 2011 relocated to Melbourne.

In 2002 Matthew Lutton formed the ThinIce theatre company which staged Ionesco’s The Bald Prima Donna at the 2003 Perth International Fringe Festival. For ThinIce he directed the premiere of Brendan Cowell’s play Bed at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and devised two new works with Eamon Flack, The Gathering in 2005 and The Goose Chase in 2007. The Goose Chase was a solo piece for Eamon Flack, co-produced with Deckchair Theatre.

Lutton was appointed the Artistic Director of Black Swan Theatre Company’s emerging artists' program at the BSX-Theatre in 2003 where, between 2003 and 2006, he directed Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language, Mrozek’s Striptease, Buchner’s Woyzeck and Dürrenmatt’s The Visit. He became the Associate Director of the Black Swan Theatre Company in 2006, and in 2007 directed Mishima’s The Lady Aoi for the Perth International Arts Festival.

In 2008 Lutton was Michael Kantor’s Assistant Director on Malthouse Theatre’s production of Moliere’s Tartuffe in Melbourne. Kantor fell ill two days before rehearsals commenced and Lutton was invited to take over the production as director. He then went on to direct the world premiere of Tom Holloway’s play Don’t Say the Words at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company and Red Shoes (a version of the Hans Christian Andersen story adapted by Humphrey Bower) for ThinIce and Artrage.

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