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Hats Off — exclusive backstage video interview: Matt Lee

AussieTheatre’s social media and digital team were backstage at Hats Off Sydney last week, live tweeting and interviewing performers at the Seymour Centre.

Today we bring you the third in a new series of exclusive backstage video interviews (thanks to reporter Liam Bradbery and editor Ben Neutze), featuring Aussie performer and choreographer, Matt Lee.

Matt performed the role of Bert in Mary Poppins during its run in Australia and New Zealand and was also well known as a judge on the reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance? 

Erin James

Erin James is AussieTheatre.com's former Editor in Chief and a performer on both stage and screen. Credits include My Fair Lady, South Pacific and The King and I (Opera Australia), Love Never Dies and Cats (Really Useful Group), Blood Brothers (Enda Markey Presents), A Place To Call Home (Foxtel/Channel 7) and the feature film The Little Death (written and directed by Josh Lawson).

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