★★★★★

“A writer and performer of considerable promise.”

Scotsgay Fringe

★★★★★

“dramatic powers of urban storytelling”

Ian McMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3

‘FIXING’ is going out on tour from November 2025

Drag mechanic Natalie Spanner would like to teach you all about holistic car care – how to look after our cars, but also ourselves – and invite you to get down and dirty under the bonnet.

She’s also here to help Matt navigate childhood memories of the time just after Matt’s parents divorced, when everything seemed like an adventure. The time Matt and their dad were closest.

These two worlds collide in a show which is both outrageous and touching, laugh-out-loud and heartfelt, interactive and caring. A show about family breakups, learning car maintenance and choosing the right shade of lipstick to do it in.

Tickets for Autumn 2025 shows at the links at the top of the page or below – further Spring 2026 dates to be announced!

 

workshops

I have facilitated projects in teaching stage writing, poetry and performance for various schools and universities. I love sharing skills, particularly with young people, and approach workshops as opportunities for facilitated co-creation creation with participants.

Poetry

I have performed at poetry venues around the UK, including The Nottingham Playhouse, Northern Stage, and the Olympic Park, and was a member of poetry collective The Mouthy Poets from 2011-2014. I was selected as one of BBC Three’s Verb New Voices in 2014.

Theatre

I have co-created three shows with Peader Kirk: Sticking, Fitting, and Fixing. I have also directed solo work with various solo practitioners.

About Me

Hello, I’m Matt – a theatre maker/director/writer and workshop facilitator based in Nottingham!

Matt Miller is a poet, performer and theatre maker who writes about place, identity and ways of belonging.

They learned their craft with Nottingham based poetry collective The Mouthy Poets, performing several times at the Nottingham Playhouse, as well as at the Olympic Park as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

In 2014, Matt was selected as one of BBC Radio Three’s Verb New Voices and their poem River Monster, charting their history growing up in Tyneside, was broadcast on The Verb.

Through this program, Matt started working with Peader Kirk and they have since made two shows together. ‘Sticking’ (2016) performed to sold out audiences in Newcastle, Manchester and Durham, and Fitting (2018-2021) toured nationally.

 

Matt has also toured nationally as a director with Five Years by Neal Pike (2019).

Matt has been an artist in residence at Alphabetti Theatre, was one of Live Theatre’s inaugural Live Lab Artists, and is a current member of Nottingham Playhouse’s Artist Development Programme Amplify.

Matt was the 2017 Nottingham Poetry Society Slam Champion and the 2018 Derby Poetry Festival Slam Champion and in 2019 won the Nottingham heat of Slamovision, an international poetry slam between all 27 UNESCO Cities of Literature.

They also regularly engage in theatre and poetry education, and have worked with The Mighty Creatives, Writing East Midlands, University of Bedfordshire and others in this capacity.

About Me

Hello, I’m Matt – a theatre maker/director/writer and workshop facilitator based in Nottingham!

Matt Miller is a poet, performer and theatre maker who writes about place, identity and ways of belonging.

They learned their craft with Nottingham based poetry collective The Mouthy Poets, performing several times at the Nottingham Playhouse, as well as at the Olympic Park as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

In 2014, Matt was selected as one of BBC Radio Three’s Verb New Voices and their poem River Monster, charting their history growing up in Tyneside, was broadcast on The Verb.

Through this program, Matt started working with Peader Kirk and they have since made two shows together. ‘Sticking’ (2016) performed to sold out audiences in Newcastle, Manchester and Durham, and Fitting (2018-2021) toured nationally.

 

Matt has also toured nationally as a director with Five Years by Neal Pike (2019).

Matt has been an artist in residence at Alphabetti Theatre, was one of Live Theatre’s inaugural Live Lab Artists, and is a current member of Nottingham Playhouse’s Artist Development Programme Amplify.

Matt was the 2017 Nottingham Poetry Society Slam Champion and the 2018 Derby Poetry Festival Slam Champion and in 2019 won the Nottingham heat of Slamovision, an international poetry slam between all 27 UNESCO Cities of Literature.

They also regularly engage in theatre and poetry education, and have worked with The Mighty Creatives, Writing East Midlands, University of Bedfordshire and others in this capacity.

‘This is a show not to be underestimated: whilst seemingly gentle, Fitting has a quiet power to it. It’s exploration of gender fluidity is both personal and communal; as an audience member, I felt like I was genuinely sharing the experiences being played out on stage, not watching them as an observer. Consequently, the personal connection is incredibly strong, whatever your identity. ‘Matt is a mesmerising performer – their words, their gestures, their magic tricks (yes, real tricks) but most of all, their smile. I’m still thinking about that smile, everything that went in to it, and everything behind it.’

‘Such a fabulous piece of work that examines where people perceive they fit in this world, owning the middle area and turning the negative space we get lost in into a clear positive’

‘The desire to be bigger, to make yourself larger, to rage and storm at the world is intensely human and moving.’

Images for “Fixing” by Tom Platinum Morley
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