MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, TEACHER, CURATOR, STORYTELLER, GAME DEVELOPER
matthew muñiz
Matthew is a pianist, composer, game designer and educator, as well a founding member of the Ice Core Collective, a Chicago-based sound collective. He co-created Divination, the tarot-based TTRPG, which was successfully crowdfunded in 2024. Matthew’s music has been featured on Chicago artistic projects and on stages for twenty years. His music direction and stage arrangement skills have been met with rave reviews, often featuring the talents of the multi-instrumentalist actors and musicians Chicago’s vibrant theatre scene produces. His work has been called “exhilarating” and “glorious,” by print publications and not just his mom. His music has been featured in plays, podcasts, an experimental audio book, in short films and in one feature-length zombie horror flick. Before discovering Chicago theatre, he released a full-length album and played most of the ‘cool’ stages in Chicago with his former band, The Live Debate!. He created music for The Last Defender, an escape room by Cards Against Humanity and the House Theatre of Chicago, where his music direction and performance credits also include The Nutcracker, Verböten, and Hatfield & McCoy.
When Matthew isn’t making games or music, he’s enjoying life with his husband, Vincent.
Instrumental Music
Original music for stories.
PROJECTs
MUSIC
Peter Pan - (Composer) Oak Park Community Theatre, 2026
WEIRDVOICE - (Writer, Composer) Podcast, 2023-present
Frederick - (Music Director) - Chicago Children’s Theatre 2018 & 2024
Mesmerized - (Sound Design / Composition) - Chicago Children’s Theatre 2023
The Malignant Ampersands - (Sound Design/Composer/Songwriter) A Red Orchid Theatre 2022
Hundred Days - (Music Director) Kokandy Productions 2020 & 2021
The Pod Has Been Cast (contributing Composer) podcast 2021-2022
American Bottom - (Composer/Songwriter) A Red Orchid Theatre 2021
Verböten - (Music Director / Arranger) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2020
Pinocchio - (Composer/Songwriter) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2019
The Last Defender - (Composer) The House Theatre of Chicago & Cards Against Humanity, 2019
The Nutcracker - (Pianist/Music Director/Arranger) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2010 - 2018
Borealis - (Composer) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2018
Hatfield & McCoy - (Music Director / Keyboard) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2018
Kitty Hawk - (Music Director / Arranger) The Arscht Center for the Performing Arts, 2017
The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz - (Music Director) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2017
Psychonaut Librarians - (Composer) The New Colony, 2017
United Flight 232 - (Music Director) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2016
The Revel - (Music Director) The House Theatre of Chicago, 2015
The Live Debate! - The Live Debate! (2013) Self-Released
Dorothy Marie and the Unanswered Questions of the Zombie Apocalypse - film, (Composer) 2013
The Live Debate! - (Songwriter/Co-producer) full-length album, 2013
3:16 - short film, (Composer) 2006
Millicent and the Amulet - short film, (Composer) 2005
GAME DEVELOPMENT
Divination RPG - Successfully crowdfunded in 2024
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