Draft:Matthew Floyd Jones

Matthew Floyd Jones is a composer-lyricist, musician and performer.

Jones graduated from the University of Oxford with a joint honours degree in Classics and English Literature. Whilst at university he established a comic songwriting partnership with Laura Corcoran as members of The Oxford Revue.

Jones was then accepted to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts but deferred the place due to the growing success of his pop music parody double act Frisky & Mannish, created with Corcoran. Dubbed "The Next Big Thing" by The Times in 2010, their career included shows at the Lyric Theatre, Southbank Centre, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Edinburgh Fringe, Glastonbury Festival, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, and New Zealand International Arts Festival. They also appeared on BBC Radio 1 and BBC2's The Culture Show.

Jones was cast in the Samuel Beckett Award-winning Camera Lucida by Dickie Beau at the Barbican Centre in 2014, and played the role of George in the 2018 West End premiere of the musical Miss Nightingale at the Hippodrome.

Jones won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for writing the songs in Jon Brittain's play A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), published by Bloomsbury. Their second show Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder!, for which Jones wrote and arranged the music and co-wrote the lyrics, received its premiere at Paines Plough in 2022 and transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End.