Matt Steinberg is the Artistic Director/CEO of Outside Edge Theatre Company.

His recent directing credits include productions at Shoreditch Town Hall (A Very Happy Scrappy Sackler Family Thanksgiving), Soho Theatre (Tumulus), VAULT Festival (Check-in/Check-out; Tumulus), Etcetera Theatre (Din0), New Diorama Theatre (Atlantic Sheep), Iford Arts, Theatre503 (Stand Fast; Saved), Southwark Playhouse (Trout Stanley), East15, London School of Dramatic Art and Identity School of Acting. As an assistant director he worked for Iford Arts, The Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre, The Royal Court, St. James Theatre and The Canadian Stage Company.

Directing awards include the John Fernald Award for Emerging Directors (Equity Charitable Trust UK), New Generation Artist (Iford Arts) and Origins Award for Outstanding New Work (VAULT Festival).

As an actor he performed leading roles at the Finborough Theatre, The Stratford Festival, numerous theatres across Canada and New York City, in addition to work in feature films, television and commercials.

He trained with Uta Hagen at HB Studio, at The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare Lab and Shakespeare’s Globe International Actor’s Fellowship.

Acting awards include the Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival of Canada) and the Christopher Plummer Award (Shakespeare’s Globe Centre Canada).

Christopher Albert Holt is an actor, a theatre director, a lecturer, a voice coach and a disability arts practitioner.

He has worked for 30 years in professional theatre, beginning with the National Youth Theatre at the age of 15. He has worked all over Europe, appearing in shows nationally and internationally. He has performed in venues as disparate as the Moscow Arts Theatre, the National Theatre, Wembley Stadium, Royal Albert Hall and the Hen and Chickens pub in Islington.

As an actor, Christopher has worked across musical theatre, straight theatre, opera and film. He has appeared in the three largest musicals in the world: Les Misérables (West End), CATS (Hamburg) and The Lion King (Original Cast, London).  He has worked with Trevor Nunn, Sam Mendes, Julie Taymor, Matthew Warchus and Matthew Bourne. He has played the Olivier, the Donmar Warehouse, the Palace and the Lyceum (West End), as well as the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Barbican, the BAC, Bath Theatre Royal, the Watermill, Newbury, the Tristan Bates, and Southwark Playhouse.