About
Matthew Somerville is a web developer based in Birmingham. With
mySociety, he
is involved in many of the UK's best known civic democracy websites, such as
TheyWorkForYou and
FixMyStreet. Finding that there didn't appear to be a
comprehensive IMDb-style site for the theatre, he created Theatricalia, an
online database of past and future theatre productions. His bookmarkable
version of the National Rail website provides constant positive karma, and his
live map of the London Underground
was described as “what IT was invented for”
and “possibly the coolest use of the internet”.
Outside of the internet and his house, he sings with the City of Birmingham Choir and Enchant, and plays violin in the South Birmingham Sinfonia.