A Chicago trained actor now based in Los Angeles, Matthew has performed with many of the finest Windy City and American regional theaters. Matthew has been an ensemble member of Chicago's American Blues Theater Company since 2001 where he has fifteen production credits including Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Oklahoma, A View from the Bridge, Catch 22, Tobacco Road, True West and The Hairy Ape. Other Chicago credits include work with Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Co, Northlight Theatre, Timeline Theatre Co, I6th Street Theatre, Prop Theatre, About Face Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Organic/TouchstoneTheatre, Shakespeare on the Green, and Poetry Onstage with Bernie Sahlins. Matthew has also served and taught as an acting mentor for Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Theatre for Young Artists program.
Regional credits include work with Long Wharf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Montana Repertory Theatre, Peninsula Players Theatre, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Door Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams Festival (Clarksdale, MS) and American Heartland Theatre (KC). Matthew also had the distinct honor of performing at the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia in 2016.
Matthew has played lead and supporting lead roles in the Independent feature films Blur Circle, Of Minor Prophets, Endings, Where We Started, and Seven Short Films About Our Marriage all of which screened in New York and Los Angeles.
Matthew is the recipient of a Broadway World Chicago Award nomination (Principal Actor) and three Equity Jeff Award nominations for his work as a Chicago stage actor. Matthew is the 2014 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award Winner for Best Principal Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Hank Williams Sr. in Lost Highway which the Chicago Tribune called "the best work of Brumlow's long career." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel named Nobody Lonesome for Me (a solo show about country music legend Hank Williams Sr.) one of the "Top Solo Theatre Productions of 2011." Matthew was awarded “Best Actor” honors at the 2017 Reel East Texas Film Festival, the 2018 ReelheART Film Festival, and the 2017 Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival.
Matthew is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Lee University (B.A. English) where he was awarded the 1996 F.J.Lee Award (Lee University's most prestigious award given to one graduate annually.) Matthew also holds an M.A. in Theatre (Acting) from Northwestern University and an MFA in Theatre (Directing) from University of Idaho. He is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.
An avid backpacker and hiker, Matthew has hiked extensively in Montana’s Bridger Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, and the peaks of Telluride, Colorado. He recently completed California’s 75 mile High Sierra Trail culminating in the ascent of Mt. Whitney, the tallest peak in the contiguous states. Matthew also recently hiked 90 miles of the Yosemite wilderness for the first time including an ascent of fabled Half Dome.
