Matt Harding

Matt Harding was born in Xenia, Ohio. He first appeared onstage at the age of 10 and continued pursuing stage work throughout his school years. This pursuit finally led him to graduate Magna Cum Laude from Wright State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. While at Wright State he played many roles including Billy Flynn in Chicago opposite Nicole Scherzinger. Following his graduation from WSU, Matt studied voice, speech and dialect teaching at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London where he had the good fortune to interact with likes of Cicely Berry and Crispin Bonham Carter. After his work in the UK, he finished his Master's in Theatre with an Emphasis in Voice and Speech at Northwestern University where he coached many productions and played Bob Ewell in Rives Collins' production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Harding spent the next decade teaching and coaching at in the Midwest and Chicago working with, in addition to his alma mater NU, Indiana University, Roosevelt, Act One Studios, the Goodman, the Court, IRT and several other schools and theatres in the area. He continued to act with local companies playing the title role in Macbeth and arranging the violence. He relocated to Los Angeles in 2008.