Matt Lockitt holds a PhD from Monash University, Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer and the current Programme Leader for the Musical Theatre programme at the University of Winchester. His research is published in the edited collection Gestures of Music Theatre, the Journal Studies in Musical Theatre, and ‘Chart-Topper to Showstopper: Pop Artists Scoring the Broadway Stage’ in the Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical. For Monash University, Matt directed a number of student devised musicals. He has also direction productions of ‘Once on this Island’, ‘The King and I’, ‘Gypsy’, ‘The Wiz’, ‘The Songs of Ahrens and Flaherty’ (Melbourne/Sydney), and ‘The Songs of Alan Menken’ (Melbourne). He has also assisted at the Melbourne Theatre Company.