Matt Rippy was raised in Texas and now lives in the Hertfordshire Hills of England. He attended H.S.P.V.A. (The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts) in Houston and was a member of the Alley Repertory Theatre Young Company. Rippy (as he prefers to be called) moved to England and joined The Reduced Shakespeare Company in the West End. Rippy continued to work with the Reduced Shakespeare Company, acting and directing, for the next twenty years. But Rippy still wears his cowboy boots and rides a horse as well as a motorcycle.