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 Robert
Matson. A local Oklahoma City actor, director and playwright, Robert
spent eleven years with the Pollard Theatre in Guthrie portraying Amos
Hart in Chicago, Mr. Dussell in The Diary of Anne Frank, Roat in Wait
Until Dark, The Baker in Into The Woods, Lady Enid and others in The
Mystery of Irma Vep, Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace and many more.
He's also directed A Soldier's Play, The Glass Menagerie, Ten Little
Indians, Noises Off and Steel Magnolias at the Pollard. Robert has also
played James in James and the Giant Peach and directed The Hobbit
at Oklahoma Children's Theatre. He's performed with Jewel Box in The
Fantasticks and Oklahoma City Rep in Little Me. He has written and produced his own
plays in Oklahoma City for the past six years and also written comical
skits for the short-lived OutArt-Oklahoma’s Gay and Lesbian Arts
Festival with a group of local writers titled Tails From The Closet. In
addition Robert has spent countless summers performing vaudeville and
melodramas on the Showboat Becky Thatcher in Marietta, Ohio. He's
obtained a Master's in Acting at Oklahoma City University and a
Bachelor's in Theatre at Northern Michigan University. Robert recently
joined the Board of Directors at the IAO gallery serving as chairman for
the performance committee and is the Executive Assistant of Lyric
Theatre and Academy.
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