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Matt is co-artistic director of touring theatre company Lung. He has also worked as a freelancer for the learning and engagement departments at the National Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith and as a script reader for Leeds Playhouse, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Papatango Playwriting prize.

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