ABOUT ME
A native of Pennsylvania, Matthew Allar is a scenographer based in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is an Associate Professor of Theatrical Design and the resident Scenic Designer for William & Mary since 2009 with over 175 design credits spanning scenery, costume and lighting.
He serves as a Distinguish Artist with Cyrano’s Theatre in Anchorage, AK for whom he’s designed She Kills Monsters, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly, Fancy Nancy’s Splendiferous Christmas, Fallen Angels, Tartuffe, Diary of a Worm, Spider, and a Fly, Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberly, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Outside Mullingar, and POTUS, among others. Additional Alaskan credits include Of Mice and Men, Peter and The Starcatcher, and The Underpants for Perseverance Theatre.
His work includes production design for the New York premier of East 14th and Joseph Haydn's Le Pescatrici for the Zempleni Music Festival, Tokaji, Hungary. Scenic design work also includes productions of Shakespeare's R and J (Michael Sexton, dir.), All My Sons (Victor Pappas, dir.), Arcadia, Hair(Elizabethtown College) A Lie of The Mind, Marat / Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cabaret, Rent, The Rocky Horror Show, Head Over Heels(Cornell College), Top Girls (Albright College), You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Three Sisters, Songs For A New World (Eastern Univ.) and The Pillow of Kantan (Muhlenberg College) as well as the New York premiers of several works including Samuel IV, Playing House, and the Peccadillo Theatre Company's revival of All God's Chillun Got Wings.
As a lighting designer, credits include NYC productions of Baby With The Bathwater, Dancing at Lughnasa, You Never Can Tell and Studio 42's annual The Starving Artist's Ball among others.
His design work has been featured, both here and abroad, for several television networks including MTV, VH1, TV Land, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, and Noggin. A former Associate Director of Design for the New York Television Festival, and co-founder of both M.A.D. Inc., and Cabana Creations LLC, Matthew's education includes Muhlenberg College, The University of London, and New York University. Matthew has taught at Cornell College, Elizabethtown College, and Nazareth College and is a Member United Scenic Artists #829.
