MATT LENZ (Director) BROADWAY: Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Velocity of Autumn (Associate Director on original productions), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Resident Director). OFF-BROADWAY: Pageant: The Musical,  The Irish Curse, Idaho! The Comedy Musical, The Great Daisy Theory, ingers and Toes, and Alan Ball’s Tense Guy. U.S. National Tours include: Hairspray, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Sound of Music, A Christmas Story: The Musical, Cheers: Live Onstage, Catch Me If You Can and The Who’s Tommy. International: The Sound of Music & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Global tours) and productions of Hairspray in Australia, South Africa, the UK, Toronto, and Germany.  Regional: Recent; High Society: The Cole Porter Musical, Beautiful: The 
Carole King Musical, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, the World Premiere of Grumpy Old Men: The Musical and Buyer and Cellar (Broadway World Award)—plus many plays and musicals at Paper Mill Playhouse, the Ahmanson, the MUNY, Ogunquit Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theater, La Mirada, Zach Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Casa Manana, Gateway Playhouse, Short North Stage, and the Forestburgh Playhouse. Lenz is a member of the SDC and the Founding Artistic Director of the annual In The Works ~ In The Woods Festival of new plays and musicals in upstate New York. www.mattlenzdirector.com, @magicmattlenz