After graduating from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s and master’s in applied music, he thought he’d be performing in symphonies for a living. The son of Dave Corey, a respected actor and radio broadcaster, Matt nonetheless entered the theater world on a lark, as he explains in this issue’s Take 5. As the most sought-after sound designer in South Florida regional theater, he’s managed the microphones and engineered the effects for the most respected companies in the tri-county area-GableStage, Mosaic Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Zoetic Stage, and the list goes on. These are the complex soundscapes of South Florida productions of “The Unseen,” “Ruined” and “Our Town,” where the slightest misstep can, briefly or irrevocably, torpedo the theatrical experience as much as any flubbed line or flimsy prop.īut it’s safe to say that with Corey at the helm, the ears of local theatergoers are in capable, award-winning hands. Children engage in a heated game of horseshoes just outside of view in a mythical small town. Machine gun fire pierces the air a mile outside a Congolese brothel. A faucet drips mercilessly, every few seconds, in the catacombs of a totalitarian prison. It’s Matt Corey’s responsibility to sweat the small stuff. Sound designer/musician/president of Insight for the Blind
Also, meet a visual artist who happened to be a man of many words, and check out the Hot List for July and August. In the South Florida theater world, no one has an ear for sound quite like Matt Corey.
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