About Theatre Horizon
Theatre Horizon is a professional non-profit theatre company headquartered in Norristown that performs in Montgomery County. The company was co-founded by Matthew Decker and Erin Reilly.
Theatre Horizon produces challenging dramas and inspiring and memorable musicals. The company has also created and presented original works, and has an extensive education program that reaches hundreds of students in our region.
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Our Mission
Through theatre, we create a community of artists, students and audiences in which each member is encouraged to grow.
History
In 1999, many of the artists who went on to work for Theatre Horizon participated in an experimental writing/acting workshop and co-created a play they titled Horizons. The following year, in the summer of 2000, Theatre Horizon was founded by Matthew Decker as a theatrical outlet for young adults.
Since that time, Theatre Horizon has grown into a full, professional theatre company, providing a place for directors, actors, producers, designers, and artists of all kinds to hone their craft, exchange skills, and take risks in a supportive environment. In November 2005, Theatre Horizon incorporated as a non-profit organization.
Past productions included dramas as the Philadelphia-area premiere of The Violet Hour (2006), the critically acclaimed production of The Laramie Project (2005), Book of Days (2004), and Waiting for Lefty (2003).
Theatre Horizon also partnered with the Upper Merion Concerts Under Stars Series to bring outdoor theatre to King of Prussia. This exciting partnership resulted in the first ever full scale musical, Grease!, presented in the township gazebo performance space in the summer of 2005 and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, presented in the summer of 2006. In 2007, Theatre Horizon presented Once on This Island, the children's show The Velveteen Rabbit, and Holiday Show at the Swing Club, an original one-act musical.
About the Founders
Matthew Decker is the Resident Director for Theatre Horizon. Favorite company productions include Holiday Show at the Swing Club, Once on This Island, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Book of Days, and Waiting for Lefty. Other directorial credits include Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World (HERE Arts Center), Aida (Villanova University), Seussical and The Wizard of Oz (Consortium for the Arts), and She Loves Me, Our Town, and Anything Goes (Haverford Theatre Ensemble). At the Arden Theatre Company, Matthew assistant directed Terrence J. Nolen's productions of Assassins and A Prayer for Owen Meany and directed the 2007 - 2008 Apprentice Showcase, 
Trial by Fire In Old City. He also served as the Associate Producer of Our Town at the Arden. As a teaching artist, Matthew has worked with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, the Wilma Theater, Oasis Kids, and regularly teaches acting classes with Theatre Horizon. He is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied at the Atlantic Theatre Company. Email Matt at Matt@TheatreHorizon.org
Erin Reilly has performed in Theatre Horizon's productions of Holiday Show at the Swing Club, The Violet Hour, and Working. She has also performed at the Walnut Street Theatre (Mr. Bailey's Minder), Mum Puppettheatre in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Wizard of Oz (Barrymore Nomination - Ensemble), Eurydice (Wilma Theater), Turn of the Screw (Cape May Stage), Whores (InterAct Theatre ), Valparaiso (Theatre Exile), A Play on Two Chairs (Inis Nua Theatre), Really Rosie (TheatreCirc), Fuchsia (Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival), and Mad Cow Musical (2003 Philly Fringe). She has directed over 17 productions at American Family Theater, Haverford High School, the Agnes Irwin School, and the Consortium for the Arts. Erin received certificates in Theater from American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), and Theatre aux Mains Nues (Paris) and received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. As an acting and playwrighting teacher, she has worked with Philadelphia Young Playwrights, TheatreCirc, Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival and Lantern Theater. Email Erin at Erin@TheatreHorizon.org
