Matthew E. Ellis

Assistant Professor (Movement and Acting)

MFA 2004 Virginia Commonwealth University
BA 1998 Mississippi State University

(405) 325-6053
322B Fine Arts Center
mellis@ou.edu

Matthew E. Ellis is an Assistant Professor of Movement and Acting at the University of Oklahoma.  He holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy with an emphasis in Movement and Fight Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University.  Matthew has worked as both a professional actor for the past ten years and a professional fight director for the past five years.  His fight direction credits include Man of La Mancha, Breath, Boom!, As You Like It, MacBeth, Come Back Little Sheba, Quay West, Beauty and the Beast and Taming of the Shrew among others.  His acting credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Puck, Romeo and Juliet as Romeo, The Boys Next Door, Cyrano de Bergerac, Picnic, Kabuki MacBeth, The Apollo of Bellac and more.