Matthew
Gardner is a Bay Area-based actor, filmmaker and card carrying
member of Barewitness since its
inception. Matthew was born in Pittsburgh, PA and spent his
formative years there and in northwestern Ohio. He graduated
from Miami University (Ohio) with a degree in History and
has lived in the Bay Area since 1990. Matthew completed the
three-year training program at the Bennett TheatreLab under
the tutelage of Phil Bennett and Amy Mueller where he was
immersed in Stanislavski’s Technique of Physical Actions.
He has also studied Suzuki movement, character development
and scene-study with Jeffrey Bihr. Other teachers include
Bobby Weinapple, Susan-Jane Harrison, Roz Symon, Ed Hooks,
Stephen Drewes and Bay Area Theater Sports (BATS).
In
addition to his acting credits for Barewitness, he is currently
in
post-production for Crossroads Gallery, a film
that he co-directed with fellow member Mark Rachel. Other
film
acting credits
include the iFilm featured short, Cave People (directed
by James Mirarchi), Want,
(directed by Michael Wohl, co-founder and former member
of BareWitness),
and Bar. Stage credits include Harold Pinter’s Betrayal,
the title role in The Tragedy of MacBush, Craig
Lucas’ Prelude
to a Kiss, Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy
Does Fine and Albert’s
Bridge, and Eugene Ionesco’s The
Killing Game .
