Matthew Barry Teaches

Matthew Barry Teaches offers acting classes and private coaching sessions. The program is led by Matthew Barry, who is a Master Acting Coach and Casting Director with over 30 years of casting experience and an acting career that began at the age of eight. MBT classes are held in an environment with reclining leather movie theatre style chairs that include USB ports for charging smart phones or tablets, along with coffee, soda, snacks, and a surround sound system for video playback.

Matthew Barry has worked as a casting director for more than 30 years, including projects with Tim Burton on “Ed Wood” and “Mars Attacks,” Brett Ratner on “Rush Hour 1 & 2” and “Family Man,” Nick Cassavetes on “Unhook the Stars,” “She’s So Lovely,” “John Q,” “The Notebook,” “Alpha Dog,” “My Sister’s Keeper,” “The Other Woman,” “Yellow,” and “God is a Bullet,” and producer Jerry Bruckheimer on “Crimson Tide” (Tony Scott) and “Con Air” (Simon West). His stated goal for the program is to make students better and working actors by giving them advantages over the competition, taking their strengths and making them stronger, breaking bad habits, giving them confidence, guiding them through the audition process, pictures, and demo reels, and offering advice on how to secure an agent or manager. Testimonials from actors such as Bella Dayne, Danielle Macdonald, and Dayo Okeniyi describe their experiences in his classes and workshops, including learning new acting tools, being pushed outside their comfort zones, and connections to roles in projects like “Cursed,” “Humans,” “Troy: Fall of a City,” “Bird Box,” “Dumplin’,” “Patti Cake$,” “Unbelievable,” “Shades of Blue,” “Terminator: Genisys,” and “The Hunger Games.”

Last updated March 15, 2026.