Theatre >
2025
Steel (UK Tour)
Theatre by the Lake
Directed by Liz Stevenson
Winner: Excellence in Touring,
UK Theatre Awards 2025
All Change
Imitating the Dog / S&DR200
Directed by Andrew Quick & Peter Brooks
in development
Billy Liar
Adapted from the novel by
Keith Waterhouse
2024
Steel
Theatre by the Lake
Directed by Liz Stevenson
'Beautiful and breath-stopping...an
unseen world of tenderness and desire
for characters whose lives are otherwise
defined by poverty and stifled hope'
The Stage
Published by Nick Hern Books
Garsington Opera (Additional Text)
Directed by Christopher Alden
2023
Happy Meal
VAULT Festival / Northern Stage
Directed by Matt Harrison
Speakeasy (UK Tour)
Southpaw Dance
Directed by Robby Graham
2022
The Weebles
Northern Stage
Directed by Mark Maughan
JJJ
Acedia
Southpaw Dance / Sunderland Culture
Directed by Robby Graham
2020
Encounter
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
'It’s ridiculous, absurd, infuriating and,
at points, very, very sad. Which makes
it an almost perfect portrayal of...loss in the aftermath of an utterly unfathomable event. A jumbled-up clown dance through a blank space: that’s grief all right'
The Stage
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Northern Stage Young Company /
The Team (co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
2019
Royal Exchange Theatre
Finalist: The Bruntwood Prize 2019
The Letter Room
(co-written with the Company)
Directed by Meghan Doyle
Northern Stage Young Company
(co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
'Simply the best young people’s theatre I have seen in decades of sitting in darkened rooms with a twitching pen'
British Theatre Guide
2018
Where Do We Stand?
Northern Stage Young Company
(co-created with the Company)
Directed by Louie Ingham
Rat Boy
Live Theatre
Directed by Laura Lindow
Winner: Live Bursary 2018
2017
Live Theatre
Directed by Rachel Glover
Curious Monkey / Sunday For Sammy
Directed by Amy Golding &
Toni McElhatton
2016
Encounter
100° Berlin Fest, Soho Theatre, The Yard
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
‘Crushing sentimentality through a
meat-grinder and spewing it over crusty, vicious suburbia, I Heart Catherine Pistachio hits out of nowhere'
Exeunt Magazine
'A true theatrical unicorn: unimaginable until you've seen it, and unforgettable once you have'
Three Weeks
Pilot Theatre / Northern Stage
Adapted from the novel by Jonathan Tulloch
Directed by Katie Posner
'This skilful adaptation is a Premier League effort'
The Independent
True North / Super Slow Way
Directed by Louie Ingham
2015
Sellotape Sisters
Signal Theatre
Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe
Directed by Robert Wolstenholme
True North / Lakes Culture
Directed by Louie Ingham
2014
Royal Exchange Theatre
Directed by Ng Choon Ping
Winner: Hodgkiss Award 2013
Short-listed: Verity Bargate Award 2011
‘A surrealist Royle Family set in a desperate North East seaside town’
Manchester Evening News
Published by Nick Hern Books
Encounter / Halifax Arts Festival
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
Encounter
Directed by Jennifer Malarkey
‘Poignant, eccentric and haunting'
The Scotsman
Queen’s Hall
Directed by Rosie Kellegher
‘Mattinson is an author with a fertile
and restless imagination, most at home with finding truth in the most mind-blowing or unlikely situations’
British Theatre Guide
2013
Brown Bird
Chicken Pox Fox / Bush Theatre
Directed by Laura Lindow
Colour It In
Ugly Sister
Directed by Hamish MacDougall
Dot to Dot Active Arts
Writer & Performer
Lashes and Taches
Northern Stage
Writer & Director
East 15 (Acting & Stage Combat)
Directed by Shane Dempsey
Snap
Young Vic (5 x 5)
Directed by Ng Choon Ping
2012
Paines Plough
Come to Where I’m From
Writer & Performer
Bush Theatre
Directed by Madani Younis
Nominated: Most Promising New Playwright at Off West End Awards
Finalist: Writer of the Year at Journal Culture Awards
‘Has some hilarious moments, and a couple of magical ones too...a solid tribute to strong northern womanhood’
Arts Desk
‘Mattinson's humour is brash yet sharp...
a rich and intriguing play'
Exeunt Magazine
Published by Nick Hern Books
Rola Cola
Ugly Sister
Directed by Rachel Valentine-Smith
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit
Northumberland Theatre Company
Directed by Gillian Hambleton
Monster
Bold as Brass
Directed by Jackie Fielding
2011
No Wire Hangers
Soho Theatre
Directed by Nina Steiger
$h!t Disco
Royal Exchange Theatre
Longlisted: The Bruntwood Prize 2011
Me, Fatty
Ugly Sister
Directed by Anthony Coleridge
Chicken Pox Fox / Live Theatre
Directed by Laura Lindow
‘Nails the breathless mood of being fourteen…like Carrie re-written by Morrissey’
Three Weeks
‘A Belle and Sebastian song made flesh’ Fest
2010
Live Theatre
Directed by Paul James
‘Captures the slang-laden, sometimes offhand and often acerbic dialect of
the 21st century teen, with frightening accuracy’
The Journal
Julian Scary
Live Theatre
Directed by Amy Golding
Freddy Hearts Freddie
Ugly Sister
Directed by Julia McShane
2009
I Heart Morrissey
Live Theatre
Directed by Jackie Fielding
The Tufty Club
Northumberland Theatre Company
Directed by Helen Ferguson
2008
The Bang Gang
Bad Fox Theatre
Directed by Katie Posner
‘Genuinely disturbing and brilliantly-written’
The Stage
Live Theatre
Directed by Steve Gilroy
‘This play has a big heart and an
even bigger mouth’
Guardian
Swan Song
New Writing North
Directed by Max Roberts
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
Live Theatre
Directed by Jeremy Herrin
Radio >
2018
BBC Radio 3 (I Told You I Was Ill)
Directed by Pauline Harris
2017
BBC Radio 4 Online (Pod Plays)
Directed by Sharon Sephton
2016
BBC Radio 3 (Sonnets in the City)
Directed by Nadia Molinari
2014
BBC Radio 4 (Afternoon Drama,
Directed by Sharon Sephton
Shortlisted: Best Radio Drama, Writers' Guild Awards 2015
‘Mattinson creates a stunningly original aural landscape’
The Stage
2012
Glow in the Dark
BBC Free Thinking Festival
Directed by Sharon Sephton
2009
BBC Radio 3 (The Wire)
Adaptation from original stage play
Directed by Katherine Beacon
2006
Snowglobe
BBC Radio Newcastle
Directed by Yve Ngoo
Winner: BBC Sport Shorts Prize
Prom
BBC Radio Newcastle
Directed by Yve Ngoo
Screen >
2026
Dance! Dog! Dance!
Knock & Nash
Directed by Jordan Tweddle
2024
Knock & Nash
Directed by Jordan Tweddle
Winner: Best Short, Denver Film Awards
2022
Elevator Productions/BFI Network
Directed by Andy McVicar
Winner: Best Dramatic Performance, Royal Television Society Awards 2023
2012
ITV Studios
Story Associate
2009
Scallywagga
BBC Three
Directed by David Sant
in development
The Seagull (& Other Poems)
Elevator Productions