This is Matt's debut stage performance. Matt fell in love with the play Hamlet while taking an AP English class where he studied Hamlet and a spin off play by Tom Stoppard called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which is the story of Hamlet from the point of view of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. This, in turn, sparked a passion not only for Shakespeare but Elizabethan history in general.

Such is his passion that Matt, while hanging out back stage lip-syncs the lines from the various Hamlet characters while waiting for his next scene.