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Mattie Barber-Bockelman is an actor, writer, new media producer, and theater artist based in New York City. 

As a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company, Mattie has performed in Balkan Bordello as Elektra in international tours in Kosovo, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, and New York (2021-2022) and The Trojan Women as Helen and Andromache directed by Andrei Serban and written by Elizabeth Swados at La MaMa with an international cast from Cambodia, Guatemala, and Kosovo (2019).

Mattie develops original work with her producing collaborative, BBCruz. She wrote and performed in Ride the Wave (2023) at The VORTEX in Austin, TX created with and directed by Teresa Cruz. She co-produced and performed in The Birds (2017) at an old schoolhouse in Darlington, South Carolina. She directed Ladyish at Dixon Place's HOT! Festival (2022). Other acting credits include 300 el x 50 el x 30 el at BAM (Next Wave Festival 2022, named Best Theater of 2022 by NYTimes), Timbuktu, USA at Boston Playwrights' Theatre (2018), The Testament of Josh at The Brick (2018), The Faculty Room at Theater for the New City (2017), and Non-Consensual Relationships with Ghosts at La MaMa, BAAD!, and WOW Café (2017).

Mattie is the Producing Director at CultureHub, a global art and technology community founded by La MaMa and Seoul Institute of the Arts, where she has directed print(dialogue) a performance of AI-generated mini plays created and coded by Blair Simmons (2019), performed in a 360° livestream re-imagining of Serenade for the Moonstruck Boy by Ruth Yorck (2019), voice acted in a hybrid VR installation of Left Out by Robert Patrick (2019), and hosted creatively produced Downtown Variety (2020-2021), La MaMa and CultureHub’s pandemic-responsive online performance series.

She has trained with Double Edge Theatre, LAByrinth Theatre, Michael Chekhov School, Strasberg Institute, and La MaMa Umbria’s Symposium on Theater for Social Change and Community Engagement with Belarus Free Theatre. She studied Theatre and Human Rights at Connecticut College where she received awards for Theater and Activism and Feminist Collective Action.

Major influences include: Kae Tempest, Moses Sumney, the Red Sox, daylight savings, Phony Ppl, starkly silhouetted trees when they lose their leaves in winter, María Irene Fornés, Ellen Stewart, Lake Street Dive, Roxane Gay, swimming.