Matt Murray

Matthew Murray graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a major in film and television production and a double minor in theatre studies and dramatic literature. He received his actor's training at Shakespeare & Co in Lenox, Ma and NY's American Globe Theatre. Previous regional stage credits include roles in The Winter's Tale (Autolycus) and Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare & Co. New York Stage credits include Off-Off-Broadway productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom), As You Like it (Frederick/Martext/Lord/2 Brother), I Hate Hamlet Gary Peter Lefkowitz), Monster Island (Joel Singer), and The Contrast (Jessamy). He provided various voices for the video game Grand Theft Auto III. In 2005 he was elected to the executive board of New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, where among other projects, he curated the popular "Saturday Morning: Art and Artifacts from a Golden Age of Television" and organized the lecture event/series "1986: The Year That Changed Comics.

Serving as the consultant to the Papercutz line of Smurfs graphic novels. [June 2010]

The Smurfs 2 (2013) opens with Narrator Smurf reading from a pop-up book called "Smurfology." This is an indirect reference to Matt.'s first book "The World of Smurfs" a pop-up book on the subject of "Smurfology" which was released in conjunction with The Smurfs (2011).