Matthew Dean Wood

Matthew Dean Wood was born on July 17th, 1985 in Manhasset, New York at North Shore University Hospital. He grew up in Whitestone, New York and started out in local community theatre working backstage in theatrical productions. He had no intentions of acting until the bug hit him shortly before his 18th birthday and he got his first opportunity to perform on stage. He fell in love with it immediately and has not looked back since. He was trained at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York, followed by Queens College in Flushing, New York where he majored in Drama & Theatre. In June, 2008 he studied Irish Theatre in Galway, Ireland. This included playing Christy Mahon in scene work from The Playboy Of the Western World, by John Millington Synge. He also played Yoland in Translations, by Brian Friel. While at Queens College, he had the pleasure of being taught and directed by both big screen, television, and Broadway stars such as Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea, Tony Award Nominee Charles Repole, John Hickok, and Paul Michael Valley. It's experiences like that that he will forever be grateful for and they truly helped him grow significantly as an artist. Shortly before he graduated from Queens College in 2009, he was presented with the Robin Hirshfield Miller Award for Outstanding Achievement in acting.