Born and raised in Perth Western Australia, Matthew Marshall is a graduate of the West
Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) Production & Design course in 2000.
 
Previous works for Pinchgut Opera include Athalia, Armida, Bajazet, Iphigenie En Tauride, Rameau Triple Bill & Theodora.
Recent designs include Dido & Aeneas (Opera Queensland/Opera Australia), The Barber of Seville (Seattle Opera & Des Moines Metro Opera), Gatsby at the Green Light (Sydney Opera House/Caper & Crow), Il Tabarro (Victorian Opera), The Ring Cycle (Opera Australia), Le Comte Ory, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, The Unruly Tourists, Turn of the Screw & Macbeth (New Zealand Opera), Chorus! & La Bohéme the outdoor Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (Opera Australia), Vigil: Awaken (Sydney Festival), Velvet Rewired (Organised Pandemonium), Ballet at the Quarry & Goldberg Variations (West Australian Ballet), The Crowd & I (Australian Chamber Orchestra), A Winters Journey (Musica Viva), Dark Mofo Night Mass (DarkLab), City of Lights (Perth Festival), Tim Minchin's The Absence of You music video, Cinderella (Seattle Opera), Tchaikovsky (Tulsa Ballet), (Opera Australia), American Idiot Australian
National Tour (Shake & Stir/QPAC), (Pinchgut Opera), Askungen (Royal Swedish Opera),
Carmen (Oper Leipzig),  Club Swizzle (Roundhouse London), La Cenerentola (Oper
Leipzig, San Diego Opera).