Ben Mathews is an award-winning filmmaker, actor, and coach.

As a director, his work has won over 25 international awards for film, television, comedy, advertising, and documentary, and screened at film festivals all over the world, including Cannes.

Ben is the only Australian ever nominated for the Student Academy Awards for his short film Emily. As a writer, he was nominated for an Australian Writer’s Guild AWGIE Award. In addition to film, he has written and directed television for the ABC and MTV, such as BedHead and Deadbeat Dads, documentaries, web series, and is currently developing two feature films, Harvey’s Wake and The Act.

Ben also recently wrote for the children’s animation Dimitri World. As a commercial director, Ben has won two Silver Telly Awards and a Bronze Pencil. He has written and directed TVCs for clients including Microsoft, TedX, AMP, TMGM, The Australian Open, Manscaped, Pilot, and DiDi.

Ben has recently optioned an original comedy series to Easy Tiger which he co-created which his wife Holly-Anna Matthews and Jye Whatson. He is also developing two TV series

As an actor, Ben has appeared in over 30 plays, working at Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Street and Off-Broadway in New York City as well as working in TV and film. A graduate of the Atlantic Theater Company New York, and AFTRS, Ben was the recipient of both the Kenneth Myer Award for Exceptional Talent and Foxtel Scholarship for Exceptional New Talent.