Matthew Bryan Walsh is a Minneapolis/Twin Cities-based theatrical lighting designer and multidisciplinary artist.

Walsh has established an extensive professional footprint across the Twin Cities. His designs have been seen at The Southern Theater, Open Eye Theatre, Rarig Center, Phoenix Theater, and the Hanifl Performing Arts Center, among others. His collaborative work spans companies including Jackdonkey Productions, Children’s Performing Arts, and Northern Starz Center for the Performing Arts, showcasing a versatile ability to scale technical rigor across diverse venues.

Walsh’s process is a deliberate intersection of theater and musicality. As a self-taught pianist, arranger, and composer, he is fluent in sheet music across many styles and approaches light as a rhythmic, structural element. By viewing the lighting console through a composer's lens, he seeks the fundamental "key" of every scene to reveal the architectural truth of the text.

Whether arranging a score or building a stage composition, his goal remains a collaborative devotion to the text achieved through technical clarity, historical precedent, and a signature American Composure.

Walsh is the recipient of the 2025 ETC Emerging Designer Award and the 1st Place prize for Regional Design at the 2026 ACTF Region V festival.