About the Founders

Matthew Decker is the Resident Director for Theatre Horizon. Favorite company productions include Holiday Show at the Swing Club, Once on This Island, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Book of Days, and Waiting for Lefty. Other directorial credits include Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World (HERE Arts Center), Aida (Villanova University), Seussical and The Wizard of Oz (Consortium for the Arts), and She Loves Me, Our Town, and Anything Goes (Haverford Theatre Ensemble). At the Arden Theatre Company, Matthew assistant directed Terrence J. Nolen's productions of Assassins and A Prayer for Owen Meany and directed the 2007 - 2008 Apprentice Showcase, Matt Decker and Erin ReillyTrial by Fire In Old City. He also served as the Associate Producer of Our Town at the Arden. As a teaching artist, Matthew has worked with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, the Wilma Theater, Oasis Kids, and regularly teaches acting classes with Theatre Horizon. He is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company. email Matt

Erin Reilly has performed in Theatre Horizon's productions of Holiday Show at the Swing Club, The Violet Hour, and Working. She has also performed at the Walnut Street Theatre (Mr. Bailey's Minder), Mum Puppettheatre in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Wizard of Oz (Barrymore Nomination - Ensemble), Eurydice (Wilma Theater), Turn of the Screw (Cape May Stage), Whores (InterAct Theatre ), Valparaiso (Theatre Exile), A Play on Two Chairs (Inis Nua Theatre), Really Rosie (TheatreCirc), Fuchsia (Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival), and Mad Cow Musical (2003 Philly Fringe). She has directed over 17 productions at American Family Theater, Haverford High School, the Agnes Irwin School, and the Consortium for the Arts. Erin received certificates in Theater from American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), and Theatre aux Mains Nues (Paris) and received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. As an acting and playwrighting teacher, she has worked with Philadelphia Young Playwrights, TheatreCirc, Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival and Lantern Theater. email Erin