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Matt Matt  Smedal
(Musical Audition Technique)

Matt Smedal holds a Master of Music from West Virginia University. He is currently the associate Musical Director of the Los Angeles acclaimed Reprise Theater Company and has done such shows as MAN OF LA MANCHA, FLORA THE RED MENACE, DAMN YANKEES, LIL ABNER, and ONCE ON THIS ISLAND. Matt was the Musical Director for several Regional Theaters including the North Shore Music Theater in Boston Mass. Where the Boston Globe declared him as “electrifying and leading one of the finest sounding orchestras to play the North Shore Music Theater in recent memory.” Matt has also worked in the same capacity on such shows as JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, 1776, GYPSY, OKLAHOMA, THE KING AND I, and CHICAGO at such places as The Barn Theater, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, West Virginia Public Theater and the Norris Center for the Performing Arts. He is on the faculty of American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the UCLA Musical Theater Workshops as well. www.matthewsmedal.com 

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