Matthew’s first theatre review advised that ‘… anyone looking for an Artful Dodger should book him …’. He went on to train at the Central School of Speech & Drama and has since played Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, Ricky Roma in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross and Pablo Picasso in Alberto Bona’s Salvador. Matthew has also played a number of Shakespearean characters including Frank Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor and the title role in Macbeth, the latter prompting London reviewers to call his performance ‘… superb …’ and ‘… a powerful onstage force …’.

In his first one-man show, Matthew played troubled clerk Aksenty Poprishchin in Jason Moore’s adaptation of Diary of a Madman by Gogol, the story of a frustrated lowly civil servant in 1830s St Petersburg who gradually loses his mind. The play sold out at London’s Pleasance Theatre and received glowing praise from the Fringe Review:

‘… hilarious … Matthew Jure is captivating as the doomed Poprishchin … more charming than the Belvoir Street production with Geoffrey Rush … humour beautifully balanced with horror …’