Matthew Whittet is a playwright and actor. He graduated from NIDA's acting course. Matthew's writing credits include Cinderella, Old Man (Belvoir); Girl Asleep, Fugitive, School Dance, Big Bad Wolf (Windmill Theatre), and Harbing (Brink Productions). His one-man show Silver (B Sharp), which he wrote and performed in, won the 2010 Philip Parsons Young Playwright's Award. For Belvoir, Matthew has performed in Cinderella, Conversation Piece, The Book of Everything, The Threepenny Opera, The Underpants, King Ubu and As You Like It. Matthew's other acting credits include The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Metamorphosis, Endgame, Fireface (Sydney Theatre Company); Hamlet, King Lear (Bell Shakespeare); Moving Target, The Ham Funeral (Malthouse Theatre); and The Department (State Theatre Company of South Australia). He also has extensive film and TV credits as an actor; some of his film credits include The Great Gatsby, Sleeping Beauty, Australia and Moulin Rouge!. Matthew's feature film adaptation of his most recent play for Windmill, Girl Asleep, is currently in post-production and will premiere at the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival. Matthew was a 2013/2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow.