Recently, while auditioning, I’ve been creating my own content for YouTube and Instagram – and I find myself on stage several times a month. More recently I wrote a two-person piece called DEAD BOYS, that I’ve gotten to perform in at four different theaters across LA including The Blank Theatre and Celebration Theatrel. We started renting out theaters and doing an annual Halloween show called Spook Night – and other musicals and plays I’d write to give myself and actors I was fans of and friends with an excuse to perform. There’s something about the immediacy of it that has got me hooked! When So Random was canceled, I was desperate to do a play so I found myself writing parts for me and my friends to perform in. I’ve continued to work in film and television sporadically but have consistently found myself onstage. While the play was running, I got cast in the pilot of a Disney Channel show called Shake It Up! And immediately after the play closed, I had a whirlwind couple years working for good ol’ Mickey Mouse – I did join the cast of Sonny With a Chance/So Random and recurring on Austin & Ally. We got great reviews and extended several times, I even was nominated for and won a couple of awards – and got the attention of casting, specifically Disney. He’s an INCREDIBLE director and playwright who believed in me and mentored me a lot.
I ended up getting cast a year-long run of a play by Del Shores called YELLOW that would change my life. When I arrived, I auditioned for literally anything and everything that I could and I quickly got involved in LA theater scene. I was born and raised in North Carolina (with brief stints in Texas and New Jersey and New York), but never identified with it – I think I was always meant to be a Californian! I did go to NYU briefly but at the urging of my teachers there, I decided to give it all I had in LA to pursue acting in television and film – and I LOVE it here. I feel like I was truly born when I got to LA. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. Today we’d like to introduce you to Matthew Scott Montgomery.
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