MATT LENZ (Director) is a New York City based, free-lance theatre director. RECENT credits include: The East and West coast premieres of Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, the US national tours of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Venus in Fur. BROADWAY: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, The Velocity of Autumn (Associate Director on original productions), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Original Resident Director). OFF-BROADWAY: Pageant: The Musical (Drama Desk nomination), The Irish Curse, Idaho! The Comedy Musical, The Great Daisy Theory, Fingers and Toes, and Alan Ball’s Tense Guy. NATIONAL TOURS: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Sound of Music, A Christmas Story: The Musical (2014 -’19), Cheers: Live Onstage, Catch Me If You Can, The Who’s Tommy and Hairspray. INTERNATIONAL: Charlie in Australia and productions of Hairspray in South Africa, the UK, Toronto, and Germany. REGIONAL: (Representative plays and musicals); Paper Mill Playhouse (Hairspray), George Street Playhouse ([title of show]), the MUNY (Beauty, Aida Hairspray, Grease, etc), Ogunquit Playhouse (Victor/Victoria, Grumpy Old Men), Cape Playhouse (Art, Sylvia, Earnest), The Alliance Theatre (Elaborate Lives), La Mirada (Grumpy Old Men), North Carolina Theatre (Full Monty, Beauty, South Pacific), Maltz Jupiter Theater (Billy Elliot, The Foreigner), Zach Theatre (Les Miserables, Love! Valor! Compassion!, God of Carnage), Gulfshore Playhouse (Fox in the Fairway), Casa Manana (South Pacific), Gateway Playhouse (Aida), Short North Stage (The Irish Curse), Forestburgh Playhouse (Idaho, Venus in Fur). www.mattlenzdirector.com