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Matthew LaChiusa

Matthew’s creative aspirations range from playwright to filmmaker and actor to director. In 2000 through LINWOOD PRODUCTIONS, he and his brother Thomas produced, wrote and directed two critically acclaimed documentaries GVI: Life In A Northern Town and Honeymoon Haunts.

As a local actor, Matthew has been “on the boards” with regional theatre companies including Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Ujima Theater, Alleyway Theater, Theater of Youth and Torn Space Theater.

He has independently produced several of his original plays including Superhero Blues at the Town Ballroom, King Cornpone at Rust Belt Books and Lake Erie Vignettes at Rust Belt Books. He has also produced local playwrights including Scott Kurchak’s My Life As An Ape and Anthony Cardinale’s Dreamers In A Peanut Butter Factory. His adaptation of Charles Dickens Christmas Carol entitled Ebenezer S. A Non-Traditional Christmas Carol was produced at Buffalo Ensemble Theater.

In 2005 Matthew formed his own production company MORPHINE HEARTS and in the Buffalo Infringement Festival he produced two original plays Angel in Black and Mr. Pussy and directed an original work by Tim Hobin entitled Ubi Sunt.

In 2006, Matthew directed and produced, in association with Torn Space Theater, a theatrical adaptation of the classic film Apocalypse Now. He also directed and produced, in association with Blue Garrote Theater, an original work by playwright Tim McPeek entitled The Ditch. Two of Matthew’s plays were produced in the 2006 Buffalo Infringement including Fred’s Requiem and a staged reading of Red Clay Railroad.