Gracious Mattson

About Me

Gracious Mattson (she/her) is an actress who originally started out doing children’s performances at her arts academy in Northern Utah. From her first role as a seahorse in The Little Mermaid, she was hooked!

Since that moment, she has been an ambitious actress who is happy to make her own opportunities and seize every moment. She started babysitting to pay for her own voice and dance lessons and volunteering to do extra work in order to pay tuition to participate in local children’s theatre companies. With the knowledge she gained and with a burning passion for the arts, she moved across the country to attend Southern Virginia University, where, even during the COVID pandemic, she was a creative asset to the program finding ways to make her own way in spite of egregious circumstances. Favorite roles in college included Mariann Dashwood in Kate Hamill’s Sense and Sensibility, Meg March in a Zoom production of Little Women, Portia in an outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and The Witch in Into the Woods. In her free time, she also worked for SVU’s costume department as an assistant.

After graduation, she moved up to the beautiful Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she has continued to work in the arts, starting at Fulton Theatre as a dresser and production assistant, moving on to teaching voice and piano, and working as a party princess, picking up gigs when available. You can currently find her at the historical Strasburg Railroad, where she works as a performer.

Favorite hobbies include going on walks through the city, playing through her collection of Broadway sheet music on the piano, and running an educational theatre podcast with her husband, which keeps her learning more about her favorite thing every day!