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Matt Boatright-Simon is a multiple award-winning stage, television, and film writer/director/cinematographer/actor/editor/producer. He's created genre-bending film, magical realism theater, documentary television, visionary commercials and branded content.
Matt co-wrote the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning, internationally acclaimed play "100" and returned to Edinburgh in 2016 with the bombastic comedy "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Half Brother". He's won multiple awards across the globe for producing and directing with his short film "Let Be", holds a 2010 Insight Award of Excellence for his directing "This Emotional Life" for PBS, and won "Best Editor" at 2007 Terror Film Festival for his film "Til Night".
He's a visual stylist with a command of nuanced, character-based storytelling, mixed with organic visual effects. He's photographed President Obama, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, BB King, Kanye West; and a variety of other heads of state, Nobel laureates, astronauts and other exceptional human beings. In addition to filming from helicopters, airplanes, motorcycles and boats, Matt's shot in remote Fijian jungles, inside NASA's classified command center, at the Keck Observatory at 14,000 feet, and deep inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Boatright-Simon started his career at award-winning music video, commercial and film production shop Propaganda Films in Los Angeles, learned editing at the foot of Academy Award-winning Hank Corwin at Lost Planet in Santa Monica, honed his storytelling skills on London's West End stage, and developed his technical chops at Academy Award-Winning Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles. He's composed and performed music for film and television, reported and opined for numerous U.S. news publications including YahooNews! and Bleacher Report, had a recurring role on Beverly Hills 90210.
Matt was a member of the National Champion University of Wisconsin rowing team, speaks some Mandarin, is an inventor and a scratch coder.
