CAMERON MITCHELL

Cameron Mitchell is one of Australia’s most versatile choreographers and now emerging as one of Australia’s most exciting directors.

Cameron began his choreographic career with the National tour of girl group Bardot from the hugely successful television series Popstars. He went on to work closely with musical theatre star Caroline O’Connor for many years, where he created the critically acclaimed From Stage to Screen, which toured internationally and was televised on the ABC and also The Showgirl Within.

Cameron choreographed for the Logie and Aria award winning children’s group Hi -5 for many years. He was instrumental in creating the internationally successful Boys In The Band with SMA Productions and his work was heavily featured in the Logie Award winning So You Think You Can Dance on Network Ten. Cameron choreographed numerous performances over three seasons of Ten’s DWTS (Dancing With The Stars), and worked as choreographer on the feature film Peter Rabbit 2.

He has choreographed a number of musical theatre productions including many shows with Internationally renowned cabaret and musical theatre artist Trevor Ashley such as Pop Princess 2, Gentlemen Prefer Blokes,Diamonds Are For Trevor, Fat Swan, Little Orphan Trashley, Twins, The Lyin’ Queen and The Bodybag.

Musical Theatre credits include Heathers the musical, High Society, The Fantasticks, Mack & Mabel, Big Fish, ,Brigadoon for the Production Company, The Rover for Belvoir Theater and The View Upstairs, Calamity Jane, High Fidelity, Gypsy, Cry-Baby, Spamalot and Friends the musical parody.

Cameron made his directorial debut for the critically acclaimed Australian premiere of the Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, which he also choreographed, for a sellout season at The Hayes Theatre. This followed with the same dual role for the QPAC (Brisbane) season of Singing In The Rain. He followed this with Nice Work If You Can Get It, for which he won two coveted Sydney Theatre Awards, Best Director & Best Choreographer of a Musical.

“what’s not to love…choreographer and director Cameron Mitchell makes this a show as much about dance as music.”- Sydney Morning Herald

2022 & 2023 saw Cameron directing “To Barbra With Love” an 80th birthday tribute to Barbra Streisand for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, playing several cities around Australia to critical acclaim.