Matthew Roberts specializes in presentation skills, creativity training and teambuilding. His focus is on understanding how all of his students--both business students and theatre arts performance students--can unleash their full physical, creative and psychological potential.

His exercises are intended to open participants beyond their belief systems and understandings to explore new territory and push beyond the predictable and expected. He uses elements from his training in classical theater, comedy improvisation, dance, clown, Commedia dell'Arte and experiential education in his high energy teaching style.

He was a founding member of Gag Reflex, Wesleyan University's first Improvisational Comedy Theater Group, and has performed with professional theatre companies in the Bay Area including Word for Word, the Dell Arte Player's Company and The Frookies. He founded a performance group in San Francisco that creates interactive theater presentations to address organization-specific situations. He is currently working on a one man show and several collaborative explorations.

In 1998 he began working with Corporate Scenes, Inc., a leadership training company in Berkeley, CA that teaches communications skills through a theater-based curriculum. At the same time he started freelancing for the Center for Digital Storytelling and the Fort Miley Adventure Ropes course, an arm of San Francisco State. He also teaches interpretation of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

His corporate focus is in helping clients bring themselves, and all of their ideas to work. He has delivered Creativity workshops to Northwest Community Bank, Bigelow Tea, The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, Kodak, HelloAsia.com, William Pitt-Sotheby's International Realty, Connecticut Department of Labor, FamilyWonder.com, and the United Way of the Bay Area. He lives in Davis, California and is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in theatre performance with a specialization in mask performance teaches acting and improvisation to undergraduates.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University with a double major in Dance Choreography and Religious Studies. He trained with the Dell Arte School of Physical Theatre, The Clown School of San Francisco, and is a professional actor. He has taught in theatre schools and to professional theatre companies including the Berkeley Rep, Ensemble Theatre School, San Francisco Unified School District, California Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, UC Davis, and the Experimental College. He can be emailed: matt@robertsconsultinginc.com