Contact: matthewimhoffdesigns@gmail.com
Now Playing
Lone Star produced by Ruth Stage
Directed by Joe Rosario
Off-Broadway
New York, New York
November-December 2023
Scenic Design and Fabrication
Coming Soon
Tartuffe produced by Centenary Stage Company
Co-Directed by Annie Occhiogrosso and Randall Duk Kim
Hackettstown, New Jersey
February 2024
Scenic Design
Spring Awakening produced by Epic Players
Directed by Travis Burbee
A.R.T. NYC Theaters
New York, New York
May 2024
Scenic Design and Fabrication
Sweet Charity produced by Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute
Directed by Jane Lanier
July 2024
Scenic Design
Gypsy produced by Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute
Directed by Jacob Brent
August 2024
Scenic Design
Biography
Matthew Imhoff, a New York based scenic and lighting designer and director holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Production Design from Michigan State University and degrees in Theatre and Music at Luther College. His work has been described by the New York Times as “beautifully designed [and] dreamily evocative.”
Selected Off-Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Lone Star; A Modest Proposal (world premiere, Cherry Lane Theatre); soot and spit (New York Times Critics’ Pick); A Little Princess (US Premiere, Signature Theatre Company); Love and Yogurt;Game of Thrones: The Rock Musical; Disney’s High School Musical; Frankenstein; Five Flights; Dark Play or Stories for Boys.
Additional New York: West Side Story (Carnegie Hall revival, assistant to Edward Pierce); Hamlet, Proof, The Rabbit Hole, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Chamber Music (Nuance Theatre Company, Scenic and Lighting Design); The Happy Garden of Life; Shoes and Baggage (The Cell, directed by Joe Barros); Primary (world premiere, Sanguine Theatre Company).
National Tours: A Charlie Brown Christmas Live! 2019 National Tours
Selected Regional: 42nd Street (Scenic and Lighting Design, New London Barn Playhouse); The Ghost Train (Centenary Stage Company); Carrie The Musical directed by Joe Barros; Cyrano de Bergerac with collaborator Edward Daranyi of the Stratford Festival; Sirens directed by Tony Caselli (Williamston Theatre); U.P. (world premiere).
Matthew designed the 2016 KOTA Sustainable Fashion Awards and collaborated as the lead designer on Hippos, Inc., an immersive avant-garde performance art installation for the Panorama Music Festival and featured in the New Yorker Magazine.
Matthew served as the director/designer for the musicals Sidd (regional premiere at Luther College, 2010), Into the Woods (2017 Best of Madison, Capital Times), Our Town, Pippin, Newsies, Jekyll & Hyde, Into the Woods, and The Wedding Singer.
Matthew was the resident scenic designer and technical director for the College Light Opera Company’s 45th through 47th seasons, designing twenty seven productions including: Iolanthe; 42nd Street; Fiddler on the Roof; The Most Happy Fella; The Pajama Game; Carousel; Oklahoma!; Titanic; West Side Story; Into the Woods; Les Misérables; and H.M.S. Pinafore.
Selected Educational: Anna in the Tropics; Runaways; Far Away; Spring Awakening: A New Musical (collegiate premiere, Luther College Theatre);Cosi Fan Tutte (Luther College Music Department Opera); Hairspray; Rent; Grease; Street Scene (Luther College Music Department Opera); and All Shook Up.
Matthew is the 2019 recipient of the New Hampshire Theatre Alliance’s award for Best Professional Lighting Design for 42nd Street, for which he was also nominated in the Best Professional Scenic Design category. He received the Broadway World South Carolina 2021 and 2022 award for Best Set Design for his work on Crazy for You and Ragtime. He is the 2015 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival Regional Scenic Design Award for his design of Pericles, the 2014 recipient of The Lansing State Journal Thespie Award for his design of Cyrano de Bergerac, the 2012 recipient of the Bodensteiner Excellence in Theatre Award, and a national finalist in the 2013 Rose Brand Scenic Design Competition.
He served as the adjunct faculty scenic designer for CUNY Queensborough (2017-2018), taught scene design classes at Centenary University, and has worked with such notable institutions as the Laguardia High School for the Performing Arts, Manhattan School of Music, Opera Naples, and Carnegie Hall.
Matthew freelances full time and is available to design, teach, and for select drafting and associate work.
Lone Star produced by Ruth Stage
Directed by Joe Rosario
Off-Broadway
New York, New York
November-December 2023
Scenic Design and Fabrication
Coming Soon
Tartuffe produced by Centenary Stage Company
Co-Directed by Annie Occhiogrosso and Randall Duk Kim
Hackettstown, New Jersey
February 2024
Scenic Design
Spring Awakening produced by Epic Players
Directed by Travis Burbee
A.R.T. NYC Theaters
New York, New York
May 2024
Scenic Design and Fabrication
Sweet Charity produced by Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute
Directed by Jane Lanier
July 2024
Scenic Design
Gypsy produced by Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute
Directed by Jacob Brent
August 2024
Scenic Design
Biography
Matthew Imhoff, a New York based scenic and lighting designer and director holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Production Design from Michigan State University and degrees in Theatre and Music at Luther College. His work has been described by the New York Times as “beautifully designed [and] dreamily evocative.”
Selected Off-Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Lone Star; A Modest Proposal (world premiere, Cherry Lane Theatre); soot and spit (New York Times Critics’ Pick); A Little Princess (US Premiere, Signature Theatre Company); Love and Yogurt;Game of Thrones: The Rock Musical; Disney’s High School Musical; Frankenstein; Five Flights; Dark Play or Stories for Boys.
Additional New York: West Side Story (Carnegie Hall revival, assistant to Edward Pierce); Hamlet, Proof, The Rabbit Hole, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Chamber Music (Nuance Theatre Company, Scenic and Lighting Design); The Happy Garden of Life; Shoes and Baggage (The Cell, directed by Joe Barros); Primary (world premiere, Sanguine Theatre Company).
National Tours: A Charlie Brown Christmas Live! 2019 National Tours
Selected Regional: 42nd Street (Scenic and Lighting Design, New London Barn Playhouse); The Ghost Train (Centenary Stage Company); Carrie The Musical directed by Joe Barros; Cyrano de Bergerac with collaborator Edward Daranyi of the Stratford Festival; Sirens directed by Tony Caselli (Williamston Theatre); U.P. (world premiere).
Matthew designed the 2016 KOTA Sustainable Fashion Awards and collaborated as the lead designer on Hippos, Inc., an immersive avant-garde performance art installation for the Panorama Music Festival and featured in the New Yorker Magazine.
Matthew served as the director/designer for the musicals Sidd (regional premiere at Luther College, 2010), Into the Woods (2017 Best of Madison, Capital Times), Our Town, Pippin, Newsies, Jekyll & Hyde, Into the Woods, and The Wedding Singer.
Matthew was the resident scenic designer and technical director for the College Light Opera Company’s 45th through 47th seasons, designing twenty seven productions including: Iolanthe; 42nd Street; Fiddler on the Roof; The Most Happy Fella; The Pajama Game; Carousel; Oklahoma!; Titanic; West Side Story; Into the Woods; Les Misérables; and H.M.S. Pinafore.
Selected Educational: Anna in the Tropics; Runaways; Far Away; Spring Awakening: A New Musical (collegiate premiere, Luther College Theatre);Cosi Fan Tutte (Luther College Music Department Opera); Hairspray; Rent; Grease; Street Scene (Luther College Music Department Opera); and All Shook Up.
Matthew is the 2019 recipient of the New Hampshire Theatre Alliance’s award for Best Professional Lighting Design for 42nd Street, for which he was also nominated in the Best Professional Scenic Design category. He received the Broadway World South Carolina 2021 and 2022 award for Best Set Design for his work on Crazy for You and Ragtime. He is the 2015 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival Regional Scenic Design Award for his design of Pericles, the 2014 recipient of The Lansing State Journal Thespie Award for his design of Cyrano de Bergerac, the 2012 recipient of the Bodensteiner Excellence in Theatre Award, and a national finalist in the 2013 Rose Brand Scenic Design Competition.
He served as the adjunct faculty scenic designer for CUNY Queensborough (2017-2018), taught scene design classes at Centenary University, and has worked with such notable institutions as the Laguardia High School for the Performing Arts, Manhattan School of Music, Opera Naples, and Carnegie Hall.
Matthew freelances full time and is available to design, teach, and for select drafting and associate work.