Robert Matney – Technology Director and Designer, Actor The Hidden Room is a playground of the theatrically esoteric, and a laboratory of Meaning and Narrative. When the Matriarch requests one’s service, one is proud to comply. I provide research, guidance, and design for the integration of theater and technology. I want to super-collide theater and the internet. When it pleases Her, I perform on stage.
My theater work includes studying Shakespeare in Performance with Dr. James Ayres & Dr. James Loehlin, founding and co-leading the radically collaborative theater collective The Bedlam Faction, and producing, directing and acting for a number of daring companies and stages. I’ve garnered a variety of awards, nominations, and critical acclaim. I am founder and co-artistic director of Whirligig Productions. You can battle my voice in the shape of DC Universe Online’s villains Doctor Psycho and Starro. I am chief of operations for web and software development agency and worker-owned cooperative Polycot Associates.