Biography
Obie-award winning actor and a member of the groundbreaking experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service, where she was mostly recently seen in the international revival tour of GATZ as Jordan Baker. Other theater credits include: Fairview at Soho Rep, Measure for Measure (The Public), Signature Plays/Funnyhouse of a Negro (The Signature), IOWA, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons), LEAR (Young Jean Lee), and On the Levee, directed by Lear DeBessonet (LCT3). Regional credits include Little Bunny Foo Foo (World Premiere, Music by Dave Malloy, Actors Theater of Louisville), and A Streetcar Named Desire (Yale Rep), for which the New York Times called her performance “splendid”. In the experimental performance world, Ms. Matthis premiered dance pioneer Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room at Walker Art Center with Macarthur Genius Okwui Okpokwasili. Ms. Matthis also stars in the film Fugitive Dreams, currently in development.
