Matt Hutchinson is a designer, director and theatre maker for puppetry and object led performance.

His credits include The Leftbehinds National Theatre, The Curious Rat Page One Theatre & Little Angel Theatre, A Christmas Carol Bristol Old Vic, When The Crows Visit Kiln Theatre, A Christmas Carol Theatre by the Lake, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show Millenium Entertainment International, Little Shop Of Horrors Storyhouse, Rise & Fall, I Spy Page One Theatre, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore Michael Grandage Company, Swallows And Amazons and The Tempest Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven Storyhouse, Zeraffa Giraffa Little Angel Theatre & Clapham Omnibus Theatre - Off West End Awards Winner for Best Production for Younger Audiences, Watership Down Watermill Theatre, Jane Wenham: Witch Of Walkern Out of Joint & Watford Palace, Broke N Beat Collective Theatre Rites & 20 Stories High, Ulla’s Odyssey Opera Up Close, Snow Child Unicorn Theatre & Sheffield Crucible Theatre, Larksong New Vic Theatre, Aliens Love Underpants Kenny Wax.

His work as a puppet maker/fabricator and puppeteer includes theatre, television, advertising, charity campaigns, live events and music concerts, scientific research and medical training, and the London 2012 Olympic Ceremonies.

In 2015 he was the inaugural recipient of the Sally Goldsworthy Bursary Award at Discover Children’s Story Centre, and in 2020 a finalist for the Jerwood Live Arts Fund. He is also an associate lecturer for the School of Performance at London College of Fashion.