Matt Lenz's guest appearances

Matt Lenz

Clayton Howe’s Entertainmentx

The Breakdown with Robbie

The Borscht Belt Tattler

Joe Mantello

Douglas Lyons

Jonathan Groff

Michael McElroy

Ken Davenport

Bret Shuford

Billy Porter

Nik Walker

Vicki Delany

Scott Patterson

Howard Storm

Elyssa Friedland

Frank DiLella

Barry Levinson

Jerry Mitchell

OwlTail

Theatre director Matt Lenz drops by to chat about "In the Works, In the Woods" a new theatre festival happening  in Sullivan County at the Forestburgh Playhouse from September 9-12! Your Weekly To-Do’s https://www.mattlenzdirector.com/https://www.mattlenzdirector.com/Get your ITW Passport: https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/forestburgh6/Learn about the FB Playhouse and all of their upcoming events: https://www.fbplayhouse.org/Shop the Catskills Collection: https://www.yesteryearwear.com/Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts and follow us @borschtbeltpod on all socials!Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/borschtbeltpod)

Theatre director Matt Lenz drops by to chat about "In the Works, In the Woods" a new theatre festival happening  in Sullivan County at the Forestburgh Playhouse from September 9-12! Your Weekly To-Do’s<ul><li> <a href="https://www.mattlenzdirector.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mattlenzdirector.com/</a><a href="https://www.mattlenzdirector.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mattlenzdirector.com/</a></li><li>Get your ITW Passport: <a href="https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/forestburgh6/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tix5.centerstageticketing.com/sites/forestburgh6/</a></li><li>Learn about the FB Playhouse and all of their upcoming events: <a href="https://www.fbplayhouse.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fbplayhouse.org/</a></li><li>Shop the Catskills Collection: <a href="https://www.yesteryearwear.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.yesteryearwear.com/</a></li></ul>Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts and follow us @borschtbeltpod on all socials! <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/borschtbeltpod" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a> (<a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/borschtbeltpod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/borschtbeltpod</a>)

Matt Lenz - From Broadway to the Borscht Belt!

MATT LENZ (mattlenzdirector.com) is a New York based freelance theater director who has worked all over the world with many of the industry's biggest and brightest talents.  Matt was the Associate Director to Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien on the original production of Hairspray on Broadway, National Tours, Las Vegas, the UK, Toronto and in Cologne, Germany.  Matt was also the Associate Director for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway and directed the 2012-13 first national tour. He directed acclaimed Hairspray productions at The Paper Mill Playhouse, the St. Louis MUNY as well as 3 national tours and a ground-breaking production in Johannesburg, South Africa.     Other credits include: the Off-Broadway hit comedy The Irish Curse at Soho Rep, Idaho! for New York Musical Theatre Festival (winner “Best Director” and “Best Show of Fest” Awards 2008) and at the Forestburgh Playhouse, Susie Mosher’s The Great Daisy Theory Off-Broadway, Fingers and Toes at NYMF, The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken: WICKED's 5th Anniversary at the Gershwin Theater, Saint Heaven, a world premiere musical at The Stamford Center for the Arts, The Irish Curse for the NY International Fringe Festival, [title of show] at the George Street Playhouse, Les Miserables, God of Carnage, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Dirty Blond at Zach Theatre in Austin, South Pacific at Casa Manana and North Carolina Theater, The Full Monty at NCT, Disney's Beauty and the Beast at The MUNY in St Louis, The North Carolina Theater and Michigan Opera Theater, Elton John &amp; Tim Rice's Aida at The MUNY and at Gateway Playhouse, the world premiere of Martin Casella’s Scituate at the Stamford Center for the Arts, Confidentially Cole at the Tiffany Theatre in LA, Twelfth Night, Hair, The Ten Percent Revue, The Who's Tommy and the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy.   Matt is the Associate Director for The Velocity of Autumn on Broadway and Carnegie Hall's star-studded Guys and Dolls concert.  He was the Resident Director for Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and National Tours. Also for Disney Theatrical, he was Associate Director on Elton John &amp; Tim Rice's Aida in its World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.  Matt directed the current Off-Broadway revival of Pageant: The Musical and is developing several Broadway musicals including Chasing Rainbows and Dust and Shadow. He regularly teaches master classes and workshops in NYC and around the country at universities and for performing arts organizations. He received the 2010 Kevin Kline Award for Best Director, is a teaching artist for the Broadway Dreams Foundation and a Member of SDC.

MATT LENZ (<a href="https://www.mattlenzdirector.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mattlenzdirector.com</a>) is a New York based freelance theater director who has worked all over the world with many of the industry's biggest and brightest talents.  Matt was the Associate Director to Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien on the original production of Hairspray on Broadway, National Tours, Las Vegas, the UK, Toronto and in Cologne, Germany.  Matt was also the Associate Director for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway and directed the 2012-13 first national tour. He directed acclaimed Hairspray productions at The Paper Mill Playhouse, the St. Louis MUNY as well as 3 national tours and a ground-breaking production in Johannesburg, South Africa.   Other credits include: the Off-Broadway hit comedy The Irish Curse at Soho Rep, Idaho! for New York Musical Theatre Festival (winner “Best Director” and “Best Show of Fest” Awards 2008) and at the Forestburgh Playhouse, Susie Mosher’s The Great Daisy Theory Off-Broadway, Fingers and Toes at NYMF, The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken: WICKED's 5th Anniversary at the Gershwin Theater, Saint Heaven, a world premiere musical at The Stamford Center for the Arts, The Irish Curse for the NY International Fringe Festival, [title of show] at the George Street Playhouse, Les Miserables, God of Carnage, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Dirty Blond at Zach Theatre in Austin, South Pacific at Casa Manana and North Carolina Theater, The Full Monty at NCT, Disney's Beauty and the Beast at The MUNY in St Louis, The North Carolina Theater and Michigan Opera Theater, Elton John &amp; Tim Rice's Aida at The MUNY and at Gateway Playhouse, the world premiere of Martin Casella’s Scituate at the Stamford Center for the Arts, Confidentially Cole at the Tiffany Theatre in LA, Twelfth Night, Hair, The Ten Percent Revue, The Who's Tommy and the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy. Matt is the Associate Director for The Velocity of Autumn on Broadway and Carnegie Hall's star-studded Guys and Dolls concert.  He was the Resident Director for Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and National Tours. Also for Disney Theatrical, he was Associate Director on Elton John &amp; Tim Rice's Aida in its World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.  Matt directed the current Off-Broadway revival of Pageant: The Musical and is developing several Broadway musicals including Chasing Rainbows and Dust and Shadow. He regularly teaches master classes and workshops in NYC and around the country at universities and for performing arts organizations. He received the 2010 Kevin Kline Award for Best Director, is a teaching artist for the Broadway Dreams Foundation and a Member of SDC.

Matt Lenz Part 2: ”Take the High Road”

Matt Lenz Part 1: ”Life Path, Broadway & Direction”

MATT LENZ (Director) is a New York City based, free-lance theatre director. RECENT credits include: The East and West coast premieres of Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, the US national tours of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Venus in Fur. BROADWAY: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, The Velocity of Autumn (Associate Director on original productions), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Original Resident Director). OFF-BROADWAY: Pageant: The Musical (Drama Desk nomination), The Irish Curse, Idaho! The Comedy Musical, The Great Daisy Theory, Fingers and Toes, and Alan Ball’s Tense Guy. NATIONAL TOURS: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Sound of Music, A Christmas Story: The Musical (2014 -’19), Cheers: Live Onstage, Catch Me If You Can, The Who’s Tommy and Hairspray. INTERNATIONAL: Charlie in Australia and productions of Hairspray in South Africa, the UK, Toronto, and Germany. REGIONAL: (Representative plays and musicals); Paper Mill Playhouse (Hairspray), George Street Playhouse ([title of show]), the MUNY (Beauty, Aida Hairspray, Grease, etc), Ogunquit Playhouse (Victor/Victoria, Grumpy Old Men), Cape Playhouse (Art, Sylvia, Earnest), The Alliance Theatre (Elaborate Lives), La Mirada (Grumpy Old Men), North Carolina Theatre (Full Monty, Beauty, South Pacific), Maltz Jupiter Theater (Billy Elliot, The Foreigner), Zach Theatre (Les Miserables, Love! Valor! Compassion!, God of Carnage), Gulfshore Playhouse (Fox in the Fairway), Casa Manana (South Pacific), Gateway Playhouse (Aida), Short North Stage (The Irish Curse), Forestburgh Playhouse (Idaho, Venus in Fur). www.mattlenzdirector.com

MATT LENZ (Director) is a New York City based, free-lance theatre director. RECENT credits include: The East and West coast premieres of Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, the US national tours of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Venus in Fur. BROADWAY: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, The Velocity of Autumn (Associate Director on original productions), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Original Resident Director). OFF-BROADWAY: Pageant: The Musical (Drama Desk nomination), The Irish Curse, Idaho! The Comedy Musical, The Great Daisy Theory, Fingers and Toes, and Alan Ball’s Tense Guy. NATIONAL TOURS: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Sound of Music, A Christmas Story: The Musical (2014 -’19), Cheers: Live Onstage, Catch Me If You Can, The Who’s Tommy and Hairspray. INTERNATIONAL: Charlie in Australia and productions of Hairspray in South Africa, the UK, Toronto, and Germany. REGIONAL: (Representative plays and musicals); Paper Mill Playhouse (Hairspray), George Street Playhouse ([title of show]), the MUNY (Beauty, Aida Hairspray, Grease, etc), Ogunquit Playhouse (Victor/Victoria, Grumpy Old Men), Cape Playhouse (Art, Sylvia, Earnest), The Alliance Theatre (Elaborate Lives), La Mirada (Grumpy Old Men), North Carolina Theatre (Full Monty, Beauty, South Pacific), Maltz Jupiter Theater (Billy Elliot, The Foreigner), Zach Theatre (Les Miserables, Love! Valor! Compassion!, God of Carnage), Gulfshore Playhouse (Fox in the Fairway), Casa Manana (South Pacific), Gateway Playhouse (Aida), Short North Stage (The Irish Curse), Forestburgh Playhouse (Idaho, Venus in Fur). <a href="http://www.mattlenzdirector.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mattlenzdirector.com</a>

015. Director: Matt Lenz