Matt Scholten

Matt Scholten is an Australian theatre director who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. He has worked extensively in Melbourne for companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Theatreworks and La Mama Theatre.

He has been the Artistic Director of the independent theatre company If Theatre since 2006. Beginning in 2008, Scholten has worked with playwright Daniel Keene on a practice based primarily in Melbourne's western suburbs, launching The Dog Theatre in Footscray with productions of Keene's Half & Half and The Cove (eight short plays including four world premieres) and tours of new plays Boxman (commissioned by Big West Festival and then presented by Regional Arts Victoria on a Victorian tour) and in 2015 Mother with Noni Hazlehurst on a national tour. Scholten's production of Daniel Keene's The Nightwatchman was part of Theatreworks' Selected Works programme in 2010 and also that year he was Assistant Director to Peter Evans at the Melbourne Theatre Company on Keene's debut there Life Without Me

For the Melbourne Theatre Company, Scholten has directed The Heretic featuring Noni Hazlehurst & Andrew McFarlane and directed readings of Rejkavijk by Paul Galloway and Daniel Keene's The Curtain with Helen Morse & Alex Menglet.

Scholten is also a teacher, working extensively at the Victorian College of the Arts as well as a writer and producer.

In 2013, he completed a Directorial Attachment with Channel Seven on the television drama A Place to Call Home.

In 2013 he programmed the theatre season for Benalla Performing Arts & Convention Centre and in 2014 he was appointed as resident Artistic Director there.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

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