Beautiful People 2009: Matt Creed

"Oh, my God, he plays such good music!" gushes a young guest at a Bowery Hotel party, where a sea of cool kids is riding out the frenzied momentum of New York Fashion Week. There are girls with headbands, boys with beards, Hollywood starlets and international royalty. Everything about the scene says "of-the-moment youthfulness." And in the midst of it all is Matt Creed, the man behind the aformentioned "such good music." Where DJ Creed spins, famous faces like Mary-Kate Olsen or Kirsten Dunst turn up -- no small wonder he's got a loyal following at Beatrice Inn, where he DJs on Wednesdays and Saturdays. But playing music for the glam set isn't all that he's got his Paul Newman-blue eyes on. He's more than just a DJ.

After plans to get an acting agent in Hollywood didn't pan out, Creed came back to the East Coast and started writing his own films to act in. His first was a 20-minute short called Everyone's Crazy, based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Waris Ahluwalia, starring Creed in the lead role. Later, he teamed up with Andrew Simkiss, another young writer-director, to create Up the River -- a freewheeling production company that puts out single-frame scenes directed by Simkiss, co-written by Creed (with Simkiss) and featuring various of their mutual friends (Gibby Haynes is a recurring guest). "I've done so many different things, but it all led to where I'm at now. I always wanted to make movies," says the 25-year-old auteur-in-the-making. "My main thing now is directing, writing and acting."
CAROL LEE

Matt wears a shirt by Tim Hamilton and jeans by Earnest Sewn.

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