Matt McKenzie Sound Design

Matt McKenzie designing Sound for Theatre since 1984
	Matt at Shakespeare’s Globe, 2017

A Life in the Theatre

Matt came to the UK from New Zealand in 1978. He toured with Paines Plough before joining the staff at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 1979. He designed the sound for several of their productions including Favourite Nights, Rents, Brittanicus, Noises Off, The White Glove, The Provoked Wife, Private Dick, Miss Julie, Hobson's Choice, Mass Appeal, Crime and Punishment, Lent, The Man Who Fell in Love with His Wife.

Matt joined Autograph in 1984, and has been responsible for the sound design for: Macbeth (Nuffield Theatre Southampton), Iron, The People Next Door, (The Traverse); Una Pooka (Tricyle), Angry Housewives, The Hypochondriac, Faith Hope and Charity, Sailor Beware, Loot, Lady Audley's Secret, Madras House, The Way of the World, Ghost Train, Greasepaint, In the Summer House and Exact Change (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith); Vertigo, That Good Night, Hinge of the World (Guildford); Saturday Sunday Monday, Easy Virtue, The Seagull, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Master and Margarita, 5/11, Nicholas Nickleby, The Way of the World, A Marvellous Year for Plums, Heartbreak House at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Giant, Raving, Wonderland, Vale of Health, Diminished (Hampstead); Three Sisters on Hope Street (Liverpool Everyman); Dangerous Lady (Stratford East); Looking at Lucian (Ustinov); Room with a View (Theatre Royal Bath); Dracula, Frankenstein, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth at Derby Playhouse; Flamingos, Damages, After The End and tHedYsFUnCKshOnalZ, 66 Books, The Kitchen Sink (Bush); Dancing at Lughnasa, Wuthering Heights at Birmingham Rep; Frame 312, After Miss Julie, Days of Wine and Roses, Trelawney of the Wells (Donmar); Pride & Prejudice (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); September in the Rain (UK Tour); in the West End: Made in Bangkok, The House of Bernarda Alba, A Piece of My Mind, Journey's End, A Madhouse in Goa, Barnaby and the Old Boys, Irma Vep, Gasping, Map of the Heart, Tango Argentino, When She Danced, Misery, Murder Is Easy, The Odd Couple, Pygmalion, Things We Do For Love, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Macbeth, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Calico, A Life in the Theatre, Swimming With Sharks, Nicholas Nickleby, Deep Blue Sea, Female of the Species, Girl With A Pearl Earring, Great Expectations, Butley, Relatively Speaking; for Sir Peter Hall: Lysistrata, The Master Builder, School for Wives, Mind Millie for Me, A Streetcar Named Desire, Three of a Kind, Amadeus (West End and Broadway); the opening season at the new Soho Theatre and several subsequent productions including Leaves of Glass, Baghdad Wedding, Shraddha;

He was Sound Supervisor for the Peter Hall Seasons at The Old Vic and The Piccadilly and designed the sound for Waste, Cloud 9, The Seagull, The Provok'd Wife, King Lear, The Misanthrope, Major Barbara, Filumena and Kafka's Dick. Work for the RSC includes Family Reunion, Henry V, The Duchess of Mafli, Hamlet, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Matt's musical work includes Love off the Shelf (Nuffield Theatre); The Bells are Ringing and Talk of the Steamie (Greenwich(; Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic); Putting It Together, The Gondoliers, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel, Babes In Arms, Funny Girl, 42nd Street, She Loves Me, Music Man, Oklahoma (Chichester); Oh What A Lovely War, A Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd, Company, Into The Woods, Merrily We Roll Along and Moon Landing (Derby Playhouse); Forbidden Broadway, Blues in the Night, Car Man, Love Story, Singing in the Rain, Tell me on a Sunday, Sunny Afternoon (West End); Mark Ravenhill's Dick Whittington for the Barbican and the co-sound design of Tess at the Savoy and Alice in Wonderland for the RSC.

In 2018, Matt left Autograph to allow him more time to pursue his other passions as well as theatre sound.

Matt was nominated for an Olivier at the 2015 awards for his work on Sunny Afternoon.