Matthew Lutton OAM

Matthew Lutton (he/him) is the Artist Director of the Adelaide Festival. Prior to this, he was the Artistic Director & Co-CEO for Malthouse Theatre, and Artistic Director for Perth based theatre company, ThinIce.

Malthouse Theatre: Director for The Birds, Macbeth (an undoing), Hour of the Wolf, This Is Living, Monsters, The Return, Because The Night, Solaris, Cloudstreet, Melancholia, Bliss, Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man, Away, Edward II, Picnic at Hanging Rock, I Am a Miracle, Night on Bald Mountain, The Bloody Chamber, Dance of Death, Pompeii, L.A., On the Misconception of Oedipus, Die Winterreise, and Tartuffe. Artistic Director & Co-CEO (2015 - 2025) and Associate Artist (2011 - 2014). 

Other Theatre: Love Me Tender (Belvoir); Don’t Say the Words (Griffin Theatre Company); The Trial, The Mysteries: Genesis, and The Duel (Sydney Theatre Company).

Opera: Happy End (Victorian Opera); Make No Noise (Bavarian State Opera); Strauss’ Elektra (Opera Australia / West Australian Opera) and Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (New Zealand Opera).