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Matthew Billman is a singer, composer, producer, and arts technologist making music and art in Manhattan, NYC. He is currently appearing as The Phantom in Phantom at the Westchester Broadway Theatre.
Off-Broadway roles: The Imbible (Ash/Vin/Bass), Island Song (Will), Ragtime on Ellis (Father Sub). Regional: Phantom (The Phantom, Westchester Broadway Theatre), Hunchback (Phoebus, White Plains). In February 2019, Matthew will join the Jersey Tenors for their Midwest Tour.
Offstage, Matthew is co-leads the independent production company CONSTRUCT (cnstrct.nyc | @constructnyc) as CTO and Technical Lead. He is also the co-founder and onetime music director of improvisational a cappella group Voices in Flow, and periodically leads workshops in the city teaching the group's unique improvisational music making techniques.
In the summer of 2016 Matthew initiated an a cappella precursor to CONSTRUCT in and around Brooklyn, NY; one recording from this project was used as the theme song for the NPR Politics Podcast during the 2016 election cycle.
Matthew is a trained Bioinformatician and Data Scientist, and graduated from Stanford University ('15) as a recipient of their Award of Excellence.
He lives in Manhattan, New York.
Photographer: Shawn Flint Blair