Matthew Antoci is a creator, director, performer, producer, and curator of live performance going "full diva mode" in New York City. Their work, which has been called "supremely confident" and "a delicious hot mess" by critics, exists in various mediums, including multi-media performance, theatre, and drag.

 

Matthew has shown original work onstage at The Exponential Festival, Loading Dock, The Brick, We Are Here, IRT Theater, Purgatory, The Kraine, The Tank, and Celebration Barn, as well as performed at CultureLab LIC, Hunter College, Connecticut Rep, and across the internet. Some of the companies they’ve worked with include Rude Grooms (CultureLab LIC), theater and media company Fake Friends (CultureHub at LaMaMa), and experimental performance collective CHILD (MITU580, Baryshnikov Arts Center), of which they’re a member. 

 

Matthew's show, I AM MY OWN MILF, had a sold-out run at the NY Fringe Festival in 2023, winning three festival awards and the award for Outstanding Devising from the Young-Howze Theatre Journal. Matthew was an artist-in-residence at IRT Theater with Hillary Gao, working on their piece Babies on the Street: the Show, which had a sold-out run at The Brick in July 2024. Their duo performance with Meaghan Robichaud, a drag adaptation of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens titled MEOW!, will premiere at The Loading Dock as part of the 10th Exponential Festival in January 2025. 

 

In addition to their work in live performance, Matthew collaborates with many artists at different stages of development, wearing the hats of dramaturg, producer, or facilitator interchangeably. Matthew is a curator with a passion for DIY and experimental performance and is on the curation teams for the Obie-winning Brick Theater and Staff Picks.

 

Matthew is sometimes a freelance dialect coach and astrologer. Their current artistic interests include Italian Americans, daytime television, and the work of Stephen Varble. They are an unapologetic Chekhov stan, and (for similar reasons) are obsessed with The Real Housewives. Matthew is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.