Cole Matson

Cole Matson is an actor, producer, and arts administrator. He received his PhD from the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in 2016.

Community, Place and Community Art, Theatre14/04/2011<31/10/2011

The Place of ‘Place’: Community-Building in American Theatre

Yesterday, Jenn Craft asked, ‘If you are a practicing artist, how might a deepened relationship to place affect your work?’ This question is becoming…

Imagination, Literature, Theology22/10/2010<31/10/2011

Harry Potter and the Eucharist of Empathy

In the second half of J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard commencement speech, ‘The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination‘, Rowling defines imagination…

Ethics, Literature14/09/2010<31/10/2011

Is Tolkien Useless?

Cole Matson is a Theology finalist at the University of Oxford. He writes about Christianity and theatre at The Unicorn Triumphant. During his talk…