Matt Tucker

Matt Tucker is a triple-threat writer-actor-director born on October 5, 1976, to Michael - a now-retired U.S. Navy Senior Chief - and Catherine * an office professional - in Dundee, Scotland. Returning to the U.S. not too long after his brother Marcus' birth, the family eventually spent time in Washington state, Maryland and California before his parents divorced in 1988. While in California, Matt found his way to the stage, debuting in a play called "Genius Jr." as a shy wallflower forced to cross-dress as his "cousin". From that moment, he was hooked. Moving with his father and brother, they spent time in Homestead, Florida, where his father retired from the Navy in 1990. Bouncing to Washington state then back to Homestead, they were driven out by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and eventually settled in Bremerton, Washington. There, Matt graduated from high school and began taking roles in college and community theatre productions as varied as Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre's "Inspecting Carol," Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," A.R. Gurney's "Sylvia," and Yasmina Reza's "Art". This culminated in his first professional stage role in the musical "Baby" in West Seattle in October 2003. He has written all his life - his childhood ambition to be a published author - and has finished two feature length screenplays and three short screenplays. He completed his first short film "The Apartment" in 1998 with his partner in crime J.R. Bachand under the Playhouse Films banner. He is currently at work on a feature screenplay that he plans to film in the fall of 2005.