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Writer-director Matthew Posey is pictured during a rehearsal of the flamenco-inspired production of Picasso: Matador de M\u2021laga, at the Ochre House Theater on Exposition Avenue in Dallas, photographed on Monday, June 4, 2018. (Louis DeLuca\/The Dallas Morning News)<\/p>\n
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Matthew Posey, the renowned Dallas actor and director who founded Ochre House Theater and spearheaded its self-described \u201cSuavant-Garde\u201d style, has died at 68.<\/p>\n
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Posey died Friday, the theater confirmed in an obituary posted online for its founder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a unique and unforgettable person whose humor, creativity, stories, and larger-than-life personality made an impression on everyone who knew him,” the theater said in the obituary. No cause of death was disclosed.<\/p>\n
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Posey founded Ochre House Theater in 2008. He made Ochre unique by promising what he and his company called \u201cSuavant-Garde\u201d\u00a0style: A mix of out-there, surrealist and experimental performances with a sophisticated charm.<\/p>\n
Posey hosted, wrote and acted in several of the performances inside the quaint, 45-seat storefront theater near Fair Park at 825 Exposition Avenue.<\/p>\n
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Matthew Posey as Baron Leopold Verdugo in Ochre House Theater’s “Moving Creatures.”<\/p>\n
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His\u00a0deep love for the arts emerged at a young age. According to the theater’s post, he interviewed vegetables at 4 years old, and when he was a sophomore at\u00a0Coronado High School he participated in his school’s play based on\u00a0American Graffiti. Originally from Houston, Posey’s theater resume stretches throughout Texas and Los Angeles, his obituary said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He settled in Dallas and created Ochre House Theater as a home for raw original art famous for a “deconstructed, musical-narrative style, incorporating live music, striking visual magic realism and intricate,\u00a0Bunraku-inspired puppetry,” the obituary said.<\/p>\n
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Polly Maynard and Dante Martinez, wearing a puppet head, in a scene from Opera Box, the latest stylistically eclectic show from Ochre House Theater.<\/p>\n
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Posey’s\u00a0theater creations didn’t happen overnight. The storyteller kept bound notebooks that held\u00a0more than a decade of original pieces capturing meaningful topics of discussion that examined the human condition, love, societal ranks, addiction, and domestic and institutionalized violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“His work brought him into the lives of many people, both on stage and screen, and his talent and distinctive personality left a lasting impression,” the theater’s post said.<\/p>\n
Posey wrote and directed more than 40 critically acclaimed productions, including\u00a0Moving Creatures<\/a>, Opera Box<\/a>, and Kaput: The Show<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n His plays also brought international and local artists to the stage using flamenco dance. The theater founder collaborated with the Dallas-based Flame Foundation <\/a>for several years to create original full-length plays incorporating authentic flamenco.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Ochre House Theater across the street from Fair Park on Saturday, January 28, 2017 on Exposition Avenue in Dallas.<\/p>\n (Ashley Landis\/The Dallas Morning News)<\/p>\n In 2017, Posey survived a shooting in Deep Ellum <\/a>two minutes from the Ochre House Theater. The shooting caused a brief cancellation of Dr.\u00a0Bobaganush<\/a>, a play Posey wrote and directed that was showing at the time.<\/p>\n Posey was struck twice in the parking lot outside Cold Beer Company at 3600 Main St.,\u00a0when he and another person left the bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n Posey leaves behind a rich theatrical footprint in Dallas, Hollywood and independent cinema. According to his obituary, Posey appeared in more than 60 major films and television shows, including roles in HBO\u2019s Love &\u00a0Death, Oliver Stone\u2019s JFK, the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and the 2016 remake of\u00a0The Magnificent Seven.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n He was more than an actor and artist to those close to him.\u00a0Posey was a beloved partner, brother, uncle, friend, and artistic father figure, his obituary said.<\/p>\n “His presence will be deeply missed, but his stories, his work, his humor, and the memories he gave to those who loved him will remain,” his obituary said.<\/p>\n The theater is planning a celebration of life in honor of Posey. Instead of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Ochre House Theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writer-director Matthew Posey is pictured during a rehearsal of the flamenco-inspired production of Picasso: Matador de M\u2021laga, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-456737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n