About Matt Boatright-Simon
FOUNDER/CEO BIO
SPEAK.STUDIO founder and CEO Matt Boatright-Simon is a developer/coder, UX and UI designer, thought leader, entrepreneur, stage play & screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Boatright-Simon is a pioneer in experimentation & development of emerging technologies and methods of visual and audio storytelling including Gen AI, VR, plenoptic capture+presentation, and large-scale volumetric photogrammetry.
KEYNOTE+SPEAKER+PAnELIST
He’s a thought leader on intersection of creativity, business and technology; keynoting, paneling and speaking on generative AI, storytelling and podcasting.
Topics: Creativity in the time of Gen AI and Don’t Make Your Podcast
SPEAKING CREDITS:
Technology Industry Group (Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Dell), Meta, Forward Fest, Wisconsin Lt. Governor’s Small Business Academy, Blacks in Tech (Los Angeles), and for groups including UWEBC, UCLA, 1m Cups, Madison Pressure Chamber, and more.
MIC+CAMERA
Podcast Host: Boatright-Simon Presents, the Official World Euchre Federation podcast, The Cross Section, All American, IRS CI, The AVR Club, When I Move You Move, The Cut and The Elite sports podcast.
Highlights:
U.S. Presidents, Senators, Congressmen and Heads of State
Nobel Laureates and Fields Medal winners
CIA Operatives and Peace Corps leaders
NASA Astronauts and best-selling novelists
CERN scientists and Hollywood show runners
NBA World Champions and Olympic gold medalists
Oscar winners and avant garde playwrights
Emmy and Grammy winners
Wisconsin farmers and Fijian teachers, and many other extraordinary human beings.
Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, A.R. Rahman, Glen Ballard, BB King, Roger Daltry, Damian Marley, Kanye West.
After falling in love with the filmmaking, as an extra on the film Hoosiers, he’s shown up in films and TV including Beverly Hills 90210 and the Apple TV+ series Me.
AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER
Matt’s work has been seen by tens of millions across the globe. He’s produced over 1000 podcasts, films, stage plays, commercials + promos, television shows, immersive experiences and more. His work has garnered over 50 awards ranging from a Vogue’s Best Podcast, to an Edinburgh Fringe First. Matt is a two-time Squaw Valley Screenwriter’s Fellow.
HISTORY
Boatright-Simon started his creative tech career at award-winning music video, commercial and film production shop Propaganda Films in Los Angeles, fine-tuned his editing at the foot of Academy Award-winning Hank Corwin at Lost Planet in Santa Monica, honed his storytelling skills on London’s West End stage, and developed his technical chops at Academy Award-Winning Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles.
Boatright-Simon University of Wisconsin rowing team, speaks Mandarin, is an inventor. He lives in the sticks of Wisconsin and streets of Los Angeles.
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A NOTE
I work and live at the intersection of technology + storytelling.
For my entire professional life I’ve been grappling with the fact that I’m passionately curious about a lot of things: writing for theater, cinematography for commercials, directing for film, that kind of thing.
I’ve been told, rather implored to “choose one” and stick with it, knowing deep in my core that that wasn’t me, but moreso, that that wasn’t where the world was heading. That the days of the monoglot were limited. That we would mix cultures, and technologies and genre and emotions and feelings to emerge something better, orders or magnitude greater.
Cinema, painting, augmented reality, dance, livestream, science, music, long-arc television, commercials… These aren’t separate things, to be parsed and cordoned off from one another.
These are magnificent, and differencing tools.
That I, and all the good and talented people at Picture+Sound use for one purpose.
To tell a story.
To touch the soul, engage the mind, stir the heart and grab the gut.
In short. to make someone, many one’s hopefully, feel a little less alone.
I’ve laughed at stupid, joyful paintings.
Been amazed at esoteric theater.
Cried cause of holiday commercial. A gosh-darned 30” P&G spot, and I knew they were trying to get me to tear up!
I’ve been inspired by a livestream, and enlightened by an instagram post.
I’ve moved by a solo dance performance, and understood the cosmos, if only for an instant by an animated movie.
Beauty, authenticity and truth doesn’t have a genre. It moved through everything.
I feel profoundly grateful that I’ve grown up in this time. This amazing, confusing, scary and exciting time, where we have the most phenomenally powerful tools the history of our planet has ever seen.
And we need them all, cinematic, technical, theatrical, immersive, commercial, moving and still to tell our stories. To change the world.
Matt Boatright-Simon (IMDB) is a multiple award-winning stage and screen writer/director and computational filmmaker. He’s created genre-bending narrative film, magical realism theater, innovative VR and 360 experiences, emotionally evocative documentary television, visionary commercials, and groundbreaking branded content.
Boatright-Simon started his career at award-winning music video, commercial and film production shop Propaganda Films in Los Angeles, learned editing at the foot of Academy Award-winning Hank Corwin at Lost Planet in Santa Monica, honed his storytelling skills on London’s West End stage, and developed his technical chops at Academy Award-Winning Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles.
He’s a visual stylist with a command of nuanced, character-based storytelling, mixed with organic visual effects. He’s photographed President Obama, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, BB King, Kanye West.
He’s screened at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and co-devised the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning, internationally acclaimed play “100” and returned to Edinburgh in 2016 with the sell-out show “Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Half Brother”.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Matt_Boatright-Simon
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1274902/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Boatright-Simon started his career at award-winning music video, commercial and film production shop Propaganda Films in Los Angeles, learned editing at the foot of Academy Award-winning Hank Corwin at Lost Planet in Santa Monica, honed his storytelling skills on London’s West End stage, and developed his technical chops at Academy Award-Winning Rhythm and Hues Studios in Los Angeles. He’s composed and performed music for film and television, and had his writing published in numerous news publications including YahooNews! and Bleacher Report.
