JERRY MITCHELL

Jerry Mitchell made his Broadway debut as Director of Legally Blonde, for which he also served as Choreographer and was nominated for both the Tony and Drama Desks Awards for his choreography and the Drama Desk Award for his direction. He received the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards for choreographing the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of La Cage Aux Folles,having also been nominated for the Tony as choreographer of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Previously, Jerry had received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Award nominations for choreographing Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Hairspray and Tony, Drama Desk and Astaire Award nominations for choreographing The Full Monty. For Broadway, Jerry also choreographed Never Gonna Dance and the revivals of Gypsy (starring Bernadette Peters), The Rocky Horror Show and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. For television, Jerry was nominatedfor an Emmy Award for choreographing The Drew Carry Show and was featured as host of Step It Up And Dance and in his role as Director/Choreographer of Legally Blonde-The Search for Elle Woods. Jerry conceived and now produces Broadway Cares’ annual Broadway Bares. Most recently, he directed, choreographed and co-produced Peepshow, a Las Vegas extravaganza production show and directed and choreographed Legally Blonde for the West End in London, and is about to choreograph Love Never Dies, SirAndrew Lloyd Webber’s sequelto his Phantom of the Opera, for the West End and thereafter, for Broadway.