Matthew Coulton is a director, movement director, and actor based between London, Lewes and Sweden, originally from North Yorkshire.
As a director, he has trained with leading practitioners including Odin Teatret’s Eugenio Barba, Katie Mitchell, and Told By An Idiot. He received an Arts Council DYCP grant in 2021, and was selected for the Young Vic’s Fresh Direction programme (2024-2025). He is Co-Artistic Director of Trouble & Strife, who have created work at the Barbican, UN Rights of the Child Festival (Sweden), Camden People’s Theatre, and Theatre Deli.
As an actor, he trained at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and Gothenburg Academy of Music & Drama. Over the past decade, his stage and screen credits include The Outrun (BAFTA-nominated) and work with Complicité, BBC, ENO, Leicester Curve, Theatre by the Lake, and Chester Storyhouse. His voice work includes projects for BBC Radio and the National Archives.
As a movement director, he has worked on numerous Off-West-End-Award winning productions, including Slaughterhouse Five, which won Best Production 2025. He often works with movement in relation to video, projection and new technologies, and physical storytelling through objects, puppetry and the ensemble in both intimate studio and large-scale outdoor productions.
On screen, his movement direction includes the feature film Stanley, A Man of Variety, starring Timothy Spall.
