Matt Green (actor)

Matt Green
Birth name	Matthew James Green
Medium	Stand up, Television, Radio
Years active	2003-present

Matt Green is an English actor and comedian.

Education

Green read English at Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated in 2000.^[1] He was a member of the Footlights alongside Richard Ayoade, John Oliver and John Finnemore and became president during his final year with Finnemore as vice president. After graduating he remained to direct the year-end tour and did some screenwriting on the side before his break into comedy.^[2]

Stand-up comedy

Green started performing stand up comedy in 2003. He was placed second at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 2005, and later that year went on to perform in The Comedy Zone at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe alongside Isy Suttie, Russell Kane and Mark Olver.^[3]

He has performed five solo stand up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe:

2013: "Matt Green: Alive" at the Pleasance Jack Dome
2011: Matt Green: Too Much Information at the Pleasance Upstairs
2010: Matt Green: Bleeding Funny at the Pleasance Baby Grand
2009: Matt Green: Truth & Pleasure at the Pleasance Hut
2008: Matt Green: Grow Up Green at the Pleasance 10Dome^[4]

Matt performed stand up comedy as part of Arthur Smith and Friends^[5] at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008, a performance which was recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of the programme Arabella Churchill: The First Lady of Glastonbury.^[6]

Acting

Radio

His credits include Constable Twitten in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Inspector Steine and as Apsley Cherry-Garrard in the BBC Radio 4 classic serial The Worst Journey in the World.^[7]

Matt has also appeared in other BBC Radio 4 programmes:

Cabin Pressure
Ed Reardon's Week
The Afternoon Play: Man of Steel
The Time Being: Autarky^[8]
High Table, Lower Orders

Television

In 2011, Green starred in the one off BBC Christmas show Lapland.^[9]

Casualty
Comedy Showcase: "Other People"
Extras
EastEnders
Comedy Lab: "Speeding"
Footballer's Wives TV
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Film

Finding Neverland
Ali G Indahouse

Writing

Co-creator and co-writer (alongside Robin French and Kieron Quirke) of the pilot for ABC Family sitcom Roommates.

Writer on The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012 and The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014.

References

↑ "Congregations of the Regent House on 29 June, 30 June, and 1 July 2000". Admin.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
↑ 2000 Footlights Tour crew Archived November 7, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ "The Comedy Zone's description". Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
↑ http://www.pleasancepages.co.uk/matt_green:_grow_up_green
↑ Tim Clark (2008-06-28). "Glastonbury festival 2008 live comedy review: Arthur Smith and Friends". Such Small Portions. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Arabella Churchill: First Lady of Glastonbury". Bbc.co.uk. 2008-07-09. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, The Worst Journey in the World, Episode 1". Bbc.co.uk. 2008-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
↑ "(none) - The Time Being - Autarky". BBC. 2007-04-23. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
↑ "Lapland - Christmas Special". The British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 21 December 2012.

External links

Official Website
Matt Green at the Internet Movie Database

Footlights presidents

1886–99	1886: F. W. Mortimer 1887: J. J. Withers 1890: O. Browning 1891: C. M. Rae 1892: O. Browning 1894–95: O. Browning 1896–97: H. C. Pollitt 1898: M. V. Leveaux 1899: S. W. Burgess

1900–49	1900: O. J. Goedecker 1901: R. J. White 1902: E. K. Fordham 1904–05: G. S. Heathcote 1906–07: H. Rottenburg 1908: J. S. Murray 1909: L. B. Tillard 1910–11: A. R. Inglis 1912: P. D. Ravenscroft 1913: C. A. A. Douglas Hamilton 1914: M. Cutherston 1919–20: B. D. Nicholson 1921: M. D. Lyon 1923: F. E. Powell 1924: J. A. C. Barradale 1925: H. J. Warrender 1926: J. D. Houison Craufurd 1927: H. C. Martineau 1928: H. E. R. Mitchell 1929: J. Fell Clark 1930: J. C. Byrom 1931: R. S. Hill 1932: P. E. Lyon 1933: J. A. Coates 1934: M. Killanin 1935: H. Lee 1936: P. Crane 1937: A. E. P. Robison 1938: P. B. Meyer 1939: R. C. G. St L. Ricketts 1947–48: D. C. Orders 1949: S. W. Phipps

1950–99	1950: A. Vale 1951: I. Kellie 1952: A. Davidson 1953: P. Firth 1954: L. Bricusse 1955: B. Marber 1956: T. Berington 1957: A. Mitchell 1958: P. Stroud 1959: A. C. Slade 1960: P. E. Cook 1961: P. Bellwood 1962: R. Atkins 1963: T. J. Brooke-Taylor 1964: D. G. Garden 1965: E. Idle 1966: A. Mayer 1967: C. James 1968: J. James-Moore 1969: B. Brown 1970: A. Edwards 1971: R. MacKenna 1972: S. Thorn 1973: R. Benton 1974: J. Canter 1975: C. S. Anderson 1976: C. Keightley 1977: J. T. Mulville 1978: M. Bergman 1979: R. G. Bathurst 1980: J. Ravens 1981: J. H. C. Laurie 1982: A. D. J. Slattery 1983: N. Mullarkey 1984: N. Hancock 1985: K. Crew 1986: N. Golson 1987: T. Scott 1988: P. Bradshaw 1989: R. Kenyon 1990: H. Naylor 1991: S. E. Perkins 1992: D. Gaster 1993: M. Evans 1994: R. Thorogood 1995: C. Hartill 1996: D. J. S. Mitchell 1997: S. Moule 1998: R. E. Ayoade 1999: K. Baker

2000–present	2000: M. Green 2001: J. Morris 2002: E. C. E. Weeks 2003: S. Golaszewski 2004: E. Riches 2005: R. Shirley 2006: S. A. Bird 2007: W. T. F. Sharpe 2008: S. Sword 2009: A. Roberts 2010: A. Tedder 2011: M. Fiddaman 2012: P. Wang 2013: H. Michell 2014: B. Pope 2015: T. Fraser 2016: O. Taylor 2017: D. Mapletoft

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