Matt Green (actor)


Matt Green is an English actor and comedian.

Education

Green read English at Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated in 2000. He was a member of the Footlights alongside Richard Ayoade, John Oliver and John Finnemore and became president during his final year with Finnemore as vice president. After graduating he remained to direct the year-end tour and did some screenwriting on the side before his break into comedy.

Stand-up comedy

Green started performing stand up comedy in 2003. He was placed second at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 2005, and later that year went on to perform in The Comedy Zone at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe alongside Isy Suttie, Russell Kane and Mark Olver.
He has performed six solo stand up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe:
Matt performed stand up comedy as part of Arthur Smith and Friends at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008, a performance which was recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of the programme Arabella Churchill: The First Lady of Glastonbury.

Acting

Radio

His credits include Constable Twitten in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Inspector Steine and as Apsley Cherry-Garrard in the BBC Radio 4 classic serial The Worst Journey in the World.
Matt has also appeared in other BBC Radio 4 programmes:
In 2011, Green starred in the one off BBC Christmas show Lapland.
Co-creator and co-writer of the pilot for ABC Family sitcom Roommates.
Writer on The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012 and The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014.