Matt Chapman

Matt is dedicated to crafting compelling storytelling with beautiful visuals and exquisite timing.  As a writer and director, he has developed series, commercials, and shorts from script to screen.  Credits include Disney, 21st Century FOX, DreamWorks, Tennis Channel, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel, Funny or Die, commercial, and more. 

Throughout 2021 and 2022, he worked on Shawn Levy’s animated “Night at the Museum” film.

In 2021, he won the Gold Telly Award for animation direction on Alice Marble: A Tennistory and the Silver Telly Award for animation on his series "Nick Bollettieri’s Student Stories."

In 2020/2019, he art directed and helped create the Tennis Channel series The TEN and co-directed the season of Adam Ruins Everything for Tru TV.

From page to post, there is very little he has not mastered.  Before 2019, Matt spent four years with Disney, developing multiple projects, culminating with The Three Caballeros launch on Disney’s new streaming service, pre-production wrapped on two new movies for Lionsgate Entertainment, and creating two new shows for The Tennis Channel.

Matt cut his teeth in the Chicago Improv community, and it was Chicago where he launched his own production company. As a director, Matt’s short won Best Short in the Chicago Film Festival in 2005.  From this, he was discovered by the International Comedy Institution Boom Chicago in Amsterdam and lived in Europe, leading their TV and Video department.  Under his direction, the theater sold two shows to Sundance Channel and Comedy Central.  Since returning to the States and arriving in Los Angeles, Matt has continued to bring life to projects and projects to life.