Ali Matthews is an artist and performer working across media in theatre, performance, music and video in Manchester, UK. She has presented and performed in work across the UK & Europe. She is interested in intersections between eeriness and humour, as well as folk rituals horror and the natural world. Recent projects include performing in the world premiere of Marina Abramović's Balkan Erotic Epic, for which she will join the international tour, Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic (The Lowry/UK tour); Bobby: Lunch is Darkness (Encounter Festival/online, developed as part of Manchester International Festival Creative Lab 2019) and stints performing for Slap Collective at Compass Festival (Leeds) and Disco Neurotico (Salford/Dublin/touring). She also regularly works as an outside eye, dramaturg and director for projects in development. "A bewitching performer" - The Guardian. 


Elsewhere, she has created cabaret, one-to-one and end-on performances for venues as diverse as ArtsAdmin/Toynbee Studios, Chelsea Theatre, York Mediale, Project Arts Centre Dublin, Glogauir Studios Berlin, Lancaster Arts, Contact Theatre and Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Her gig theatre piece The Witching Way (created with Leo Burtin) premiered at the Royal Exchange in 2019 and toured to venues including Lancaster Arts and Square Chapel, Halifax. IIn 2021, she was a Ferment artist in residence at Dartington Arts in Devon. She produces and project manages her own work with support from Making Room, and her projects have been consistently supported by Arts Council England.