Matthew Gutschick is a director, writer, teacher and producer based in Chicago. Directing credits include Twelfth Night and Anon(ymous) at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Wuthering Heights at the Mint Theatre in New York, and Whacked Fairy Tales at Twin City Stage. His plays have been workshopped/produced by Wordsmyth Theatre Company, Horse Trade Theater Group (NYC), Reverie Productions (NYC), Tri Sate Actors' Theatre, and Magic Chicago. His company, MagicMouth Theatre, specializes in the combination of theatrical narratives and stage illusion. Matthew's work for MagicMouth Theatre won a New Horizons Playwriting Award and the company will premiere a new magic-theatre piece, A Christmas Carol In Prose, this December with Parallel 45 in Traverse City, MI.

He is the former artistic director of the Children's Theatre Board of Winston-Salem and completed a fellowship with the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. He was the most recent Managing Director of the Yale Cabaret where he produced over 14 world premieres. Matthew is the recipient of a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf. He holds a BA in Theater from Wake Forest University and received an MFA in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama this May.