Jerry Mitchell

Jerry Mitchell is an award-winning American director and choreographer.

Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell's early Broadway credits were as a dancer in The Will Rogers Follies and revivals of Brigadoon and On Your Toes.

Mitchell's first production as sole chorographer was the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which he followed with The Full Monty.

Mitchell created and for many years directed the annual Broadway Bares benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. In addition to the theatre, he has choreographed for films such as Camp, In & Out and Drop Dead Gorgeous. He garnered an Emmy Award nomination for his work on The Drew Carey Show.

Mitchell's most recent project, for which he serves as both director and choreographer, is Legally Blonde: The Musical, which opened in April 2007.

Additional Broadway choreography credits

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005)
• La Cage aux Folles (2004 revival)
• Never Gonna Dance (2003)
• Gypsy (2003 revival)
• Imaginary Friends (2002)
• Hairspray (2002)
• The Rocky Horror Show (2000 revival)
• Grease (1994 revival)
• Three Men on a Horse (1993 revival)

Awards and nominations

• 2007 Tony Award for Best Choreography (Legally Blonde: The Musical, nominee)
• 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Legally Blonde: The Musical, nominee)
• 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography (Legally Blonde: The Musical, nominee)
• 2005 Tony Award for Best Choreography (La Cage aux Folles, winner)
• 2005 Tony Award for Best Choreography (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, nominee)
• 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography (La Cage aux Folles, winner)
• 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, nominee)
• 2004 Tony Award for Best Choreography (Never Gonna Dance, nominee)
• 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography (Never Gonna Dance, nominee)
• 2003 Tony Award for Best Choreography (Hairspray, nominee)
• 2003 Drama Desk Award for Oustanding Choreography (Hairspray, nominee)
• 2001 Tony Award for Best Choreography (The Full Monty, nominee)
• 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography (The Rocky Horror Show, nominee)
• 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography (The Full Monty, nominee)

External links

• Jerry Mitchell on the Internet Broadway Database
• Production: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2005
• Jerry Mitchell Downstage Center XM Radio interview at American Theatre Wing, 2007