MATTHEW SIMMONS
Matthew Simmons is an improviser, actor, and sound designer from New Westminster. He cut his teeth onstage at Second Storey Theatre in Port Coquitlam. He frequently performs unscripted musicals with Off Key Improv on Commercial Drive, as well as appearing all over the Lower Mainland in everything from scripted musicals, to radio plays, to Shakespeare. Past credits include It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play and A Christmas Carol: On the Air (Pacific Theatre), End of the Rainbow (Ace Productions), The Hunger Games musical trilogy (District 13 Presents), and A Few Good Men (First Impressions Theatre), as well as sound design for Honky Tonk Angels, and Cyrano (First Impressions Theatre). Matthew was the creator and host of the Improvised Vinyl Cafe, and is overjoyed when he gets to spend his weekends as a Jedi knight.
Aerhyn has been wowing audiences in musicals and children’s theatre around Vancouver and all across the country since 2004, as well as providing voices for video games. Most recently, he’s been a part of two touring Theatre for Young Audiences shows in Baking Time (Presentation House Theatre) and Raven Meets the Monkey King (Axis Theatre), as well as having recently returned from Regina, Saskatchewan as a part of the SaskExpress touring company. He has spent the better part of the last 10 years teaching hip hop and musical theatre to students between the ages of 5 to 22, and was the resident choreographer for the Eric Hamber Secondary musical production. Aerhyn also enjoys recording his Tune-Up Thursdays acapella covers, anything that involves food (cooking and consuming), cycling, and playing volleyball.