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.