Atlantis

Overview

One of Australia’s rising stars, Matthew Lee Robinson brought an international perspective to the Canadian Music Theatre Project.

Story

Atlantis charts the seven days leading up to the destruction of the ancient mythological kingdom. As the heir apparent, Theo, prepares for his ascension to the nation’s governing body, the island’s first ever visitor, Maia, leads the citizens of Atlantis to question their most deeply held beliefs. Following a series of alarming ecological events, Theo takes it upon himself to prove Maia’s innocence, uncover the true meaning behind the island’s ancient mythology and save his people from imminent extinction.

Matthew Lee Robinson

New York based Australian composer, lyricist, book writer and singer Matthew Lee Robinson has won the UTAS Stephen Schwartz Songwriting Award, the Pratt Prize for Music Theatre, the $100,000 Australia Council Music Fellowship and been nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work. He is a Churchill Fellow, a Peer of the Australia Council for the Arts and a writer in residence at the 2016 Goodspeed Johnny Mercer Writers Colony. A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, his on-screen credits include the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks teleseries The Pacific, the Fox 8 reality series The Singing Office, guest roles on Stingers and Blue Heelers and appearing opposite Mary Tyler Moore in the telemovie A Most Deadly Family. On stage, he has performed three roles for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House: Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady, Henrik in A Little Night Music and Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance. Matthew also appeared as the title role in Pippin (Peter Cousens’ Kookaburra), Hortensio in Kiss Me Kate (The Production Company), Teague in the World Premiere of Australian play God’s Last Acre (Playbox) and the original Australian cast of MAMMA MIA!

Robinson’s writing credits also include songs for the Emmy-nominated television series Dance Academy, the musical revue Sing On Through Tomorrow (Glug Award, Original Cast Recording available through iTunes), the five time Helpmann-nominated musical Metro Street (State Theatre Company of South Australia and Daegu International Musical Festival), the Shirley Bassey biographical cabaret Where Do I Begin?, and Happy People, which was most recently workshopped by Village Theatre, Washington. In the corporate sphere, Matthew has penned songs for the events of Coca-Cola, Nintendo, Bosch, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Nokia Siemens Networks and the Australian Open Tennis Championships.

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Atlantis

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