Matt Cole

CHOREOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR

Matt is a multi-award winning Director and Choreographer. He won the Olivier Award and the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Theatre Choreography for his direction and choreography on the UK stage premiere of Newsies which played at the Troubadour Theatre in Wembley. He received an Olivier Award nomination in 2020 for his choreography on Fiddler on The Roof (Menier Chocolate Factory & West End). In February 2024, Matt won the Off West End award for Best Choreography for Police Cops: The Musical. 

As Choreographer credits include: Newsies (Director and Choreographer, Troubadour Theatre);  Roman Holiday (Theatre Royal Bath); Fisherman's Friends The Musical (UK Tour, Hall for Cornwall); Identical: The Musical (Nottingham Playhouse); Berlin Berlin (German Tour); Fiddler On The Roof (West End, Menier Chocolate Factory); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Amour (Charing Cross Theatre); Love Sick (Theater J, Washington D.C.); Parade (NYMT) The Return Of The Soldier (Hope Mill Theatre & Jermyn Street Theatre); Flashdance and Little Shop Of Horrors(Selladoor, UK Tour); Little Baby Bum; The Night Pirates (UK Tour); The Beautiful Game (NYMT); The Sweet Smell of Success, Amour And Rags (Royal Academy of Music); Love Sick (Berkeley Rep, California); The Producers (Selladoor, International Tour); Em (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama); Footloose (Selladoor, UK & International Tour); Side Show (Southwark Playhouse); Pure Imagination (The Other Palace); Jerry’s Girls (The Other Palace & Jermyn Street Theatre); Angelina Ballerina The Musical (UK & Australian Tour).

Television credits include: Assistant Choreographer on Strictly Come Dancing (BBC).