Originally trained as a performance artist, Matthew still makes appearances as an event host or emcee - either as himself, or as one of his performance characters.

In the Netherlands Matthew has read and performed his own original works at venues as diverse as wordsinhere's Open Stanza at The Sugar Factory, Utrecht's Salon des Mots, Club Winston, Bevrijdingsdag at the Homomonument, the Rialto Cinema and the Binger.

In New York Matthew has performed at Stories from the Moth at Joe's Pub, at Marion's on the Bowery, and on numerous cabaret stages across the city. In Provincetown Matthew acted regularly with the Provincetown Theater Company, appeared as a solo artist at The Mews, and as his character Gayle Force mounted a one person show entitled "Divamukti. Inhale, exhale, pose. Yoga for the new millennium."

In the 1990s Matthew regularly toured Europe, North America and Australia with the performance trio Chrome.