TONY MATA
is the head of the BFA program in Music Theatre at the
University of Florida. Mata holds an MFA in Music Theatre
from San Diego State University and has directed,
choreographed, and performed in over 150 plays, musicals,
operas and cabarets in New York, Off-Broadway, and in
regional theatre, . Regional credits include The Kennedy
Center, the Old Globe Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars,
Stages Repertory, San Diego Opera, The Houston and San Diego
Gilbert and Sullivan Companies, and Lambs Players. In New
York, he has worked with the once renowned Circle Repertory
Theatre, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, The Lincoln
Center Summer Festival, New Dramatists, Riverside
Shakespeare, and the Obie Award-winning Repertorio Español.
He is a member of Actors Equity, the American Guild of
Musical Artists, the Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers, the Association of Theatre and Higher
Education, and the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors and
Directors. He serves on the Board of Directors for the
Center for Excellence in Teaching at the University of
Florida and is also on the graduate faculty in the School of
Theatre and Dance. He has worked with such notable names as
Cab Calloway, Julie Harris, Brian Bedford, Ken Page, Dudley
Moore, Colleen Dewhurst, Zoe Caldwell, Chita Rivera and
Savion Glover.
Mata was the recipient of the Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers Foundation 1992 Directing Fellowship in New
York, and his critically acclaimed off-Broadway production
of Garcia Lorca’s The Evil Spell of the Butterfly was
nominated for five ACE awards and won two, including Best
Production. For three seasons, Professor Mata was also the
Managing Artistic Director of Central Ohio’s leading and
oldest professional summer theatre, Weathervane Playhouse.
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