Matthew has been a VORTEX company member since 1990. As an actor he has played such diverse parts as a cybernetic twin in Triskelion, a candy-snarfing orphan in The Pitchfork Disney, and an altruistic gentryman in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. He has also directed the Summer Youth Theatre's performances of "Animal Farm" and "The Good Woman of Setzuan" He has received B. Iden Payne and Critics' Table awards and nominations for roles in "The Baltimore Waltz," "King Lear," "Norm L." and "Machinal".

Patterson dissolves into every role, filling the stage with that ineffable quality that makes you think, 'Damn, this guy is good."'It's almost as if he is possessed by his parts, giving up his own personality to channel a magnetic persona from some wild beyond. You simply get sucked into it and forget about the actor himself until the curtain call, where you find yourself clapping wildly and wondering how in the heck he does it.

Appearances at the VORTEX

• Beruit (2007)
• The Good Woman of Setzuan
• Black Tower
• Coriolanus
• Conference of the Birds
• Early Morning
• Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio
• The Deluge
• Norm L.
• Machinal
• Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
• Triskelion
• X&Y
• The Apocalytes
• The Tetragons
• King Lear
• The Pitchfork Disney
• Lucifa
• Beirut
• The Baltimore Waltz