Matthew Saville is a writer, director and actor. His television credits include helping develop the Insiders Guide to Love for Gibson Group and writing for Shortland Street.
A graduate of Otago University, Toi Whakaari and Victoria University, Matthew has a Masters degree in screenwriting, a Bachelor of Performing Arts from the New Zealand Drama School and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Otago. His latest film The Bollywood Boys was selected for The New Zealand Film Commissions' First Writer's Initiative and has gone into development.
Matthew's first play The Boxer has successfully toured the country and won him a nomination for best new writer in the 1993 Chapman Tripp Awards. His second play Kikia te Poa recently opened to critical acclaim in Sydney, Australia and has also been produced in London. Matthew is now working on adapting the story into a feature film as well as working on his documentary about legendary world champion boxer Bob Fitzsimmons and several other film and theatre projects currently in development.
NB:- The Boxer has an EXPANDABLE cast
Kikia te Poa
Drama, Cast: 4 (0 female, 4 male)
The Boxer
Drama, Cast: 4 (1 female, 3 male)