Matt has won an Obie Award in the Direction category. The award is for Music Direction and Composition for he and Taylor Mac’s jazz opera The Hang.

“Part jazz cabaret and part opera, an exuberant roomful of musicians and actors celebrate and contemplate the final hours of the life of Socrates. Saxophones and trombones cascade and swoop, while all around him the composer plays the keys and sings and surrounds all of us with the stuff of life and death, as only great music can. For his extensive contributions to the score for the Taylor Mac experience THE HANG, the judges have awarded an Obie to composer, orchestrator, music director, and performer MATT RAY.”