Matt Musgrove is a proud Equity actor from Eugene, Oregon. An accomplished actor, singer, and dancer, earning praise from the Los Angeles Times as "particularly choice" and StageSceneLA as "Topnotch!" working Ovation and Lucille Lortel Award winning shows and co-starring with Broadway talents.
Recently, Musgrove portrayed the comedic soldier Sullivan in the anticipated adventure/thriller "The Prey: The Legend of the Karnoctus" with Danny Trejo, Nick Chinlund and Kevin Grevioux and the villain Black Scar in the fantasy film "The Zodiac Fighters" in Bejing, China. Musgrove was seen on stage as Mister/Ossifer in the unflinching revised premiere of "Pass Over" by Antoinette Nwandu and Alexander in the powerful drama “The Pliant Girls”, which received eight Ovation nominations and won two Ovation awards in for Best Playwright (Megan Brown) and Best Director (Amanda McRaven). The production was revived at The Colony Theatre in Los Angeles in affiliation with Grate Artists Productions. He received glowing reviews his characters in the west coast premiere of “The Burnt Part Boys” at Hollywood’s Third Street Theatre. Additionally, the LA Times observed that Musgrove’s performance was "particularly choice". Furthermore, he returned from the Liberty Theatre in Hailey, Idaho where he earned the praise of being "the best thing [they've] seen in a long time!" for the title role of Woody Guthrie in "Woody Guthries American Song." Similarly, The Endicott Theatre in New York said he "[left] the audience in stitches" for his performance as Richard Hannay in "The 39 Steps." In television, Musgrove was seen working on Parks and Recreation, ABC’s Grimm, TruTV, Five Hour Energy, KIA, Harrah's Casino, Aamco, eBay as well as many more commercials and ads. Musgrove delivered a riveting performance as Lord Edward Gelson, the Viscount of Wesbury, in the world's first transmedia romance series "The Elements Club", produced by KYS Realm. The series includes video games, interactive ebooks and online episodes. Musgrove is well respected in the upstate New York and Eugene, Oregon theatre community. An accomplished dancer and stage actor in his own right, Musgrove has played numerous leading roles. He has received rave reviews in his many performances for the acclaimed Oregon Festival of American Music where he has portrayed Josephus Gage in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, Slick Fothergill in the Gershwin musical, "Girl Crazy", Tommy Albright in "Brigadoon", and Will Parker in "Oklahoma". He played the butler Lurch in "The Real Housekeepers of Studio City" musical at The Asylum Theater, winner of Hollywood Fringe Festival for Best of Fringe Extension and Footlights Award; Nominee for Best Musical and Best World Premiere. Musgrove performed in the national tour of "We the People", a musical about the founding fathers; nominated for the Lucille Lortel 2011 Award, best Off-Broadway musical. He played the role of Benjamin Franklin. Musgrove has been featured in the NY Times as part of the Family Opera Initiative's original libretto, CAT the Opera and the LA Weekly as a comedic host to the TheOneRing.net. He also was a soloist in the original cast recording of Ian Strasfogel's Opera, "Il Musico". He also worked with Peter Flynn (Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre) on Kenny Finkle's new play "Penelope of Ithaca". At Ithaca, Musgrove worked with the founder of the Playwright Horizon's Robert Moss, in the title role of Cashel in "Cashel Byron's Profession", an original production. He has performed numerous roles including King Midas/Vertumnus in "Metamorphoses", Faria in "The Count of Monte Cristo" , and First Reporter/Floyd Collin 's US in "Floyd Collins". He has also performed in numerous theaters and venues around Oregon playing featured roles, such as Cinderella's Prince in "Into the Woods"; Leon Czolgosz in "Assassins"; and Richard Henry Lee in 1776. |
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