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Mitchell Cushman

Director

Mitchell Cushman is a director, creator, playwright, educator and founding Artistic Director of Outside the March, Canada’s leading immersive theatre company. His work has been seen on stages as large as The Stratford Festival, as intimate as kindergarten classrooms, and as far flung as London, New York, Munich, Argentina and Japan. Favourite directing credits include: Rainbow on Mars, Performance Review, The Death of Disney, No Save Points, Trojan Girls, The Tape Escape, The Flick, Dr. Silver, Jerusalem, Lessons in Temperament, TomorrowLoveTM, Mr. Burns, Vitals, Terminus, Mr. Marmalade (Outside the March); The Perfect Bite, A Knives Out Experience (Netflix/Secret City); Treasure Island, Breath of Kings, Possible Worlds (Stratford); Age is a Feeling, The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale, I’m Doing This For You (Soulpepper / Haley McGee); Comfort Food (Crows); Sweeney Todd (TIFT); The Effect, Hand to God, The Aliens (Coal Mine); Brantwood (Sheridan). During the pandemic, he co-created and co-directed The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries, an award-winning and New York Times’ featured immersive telephone-based experience which has played in over 200 cities around the world. In 2021, he directed his first feature film Lessons in Temperament (LevelFilm), which can currently be seen on TVO. Mitchell has received the Siminovitch protégé award, two Dora Awards for Outstanding Direction, four Doras for Outstanding Production, two Audience Choice Awards, and his productions have received 14 Toronto Theatre Critics Awards. He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Alberta. In 2019, NOW Magazine named him as one of Toronto’s Top 10 theatre artists of the decade.   

 

Signature Productions

  • Age is A Feeling by Haley McGee (2024 - ) - Soho Theatre / Soulpepper Theatre 
  • The Flick by Annie Baker (2019) - Outside the March / Crow’s Theatre 
  • Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler (2018 - 2023) - Talk is Free Theatre 
  • The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale by Haley Mcgee (2018 - 2022) - Camden People’s Theatre / Soulpepper / Outside the March
  • Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth (2018) - Outside the March / Company Theatre 
  • Lessons in Temperament by James Smith (2017 - ) - Outside the March 
  • The Aliens by Annie Baker (2017) - Coal Mine Theatre 
  • Treasure Island by Nicholas Billon (2017) - Stratford Festival 
  • Possible Worlds by John Mighton (2015) - Stratford Festival 
  • Brantwood Created by Mitchell Cushman & Julie Tepperman (2015) - Sheridan College
  • Vitals by Rosamund Small (2014) - Outside the March
  • Terminus by Mark O’Rowe (2012 - 2015) - Outside the March / Mirvish
  • Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle (2011 - 2012) - Outside the March 

 

Mitchell Cushman’s visions are big and ambitiously layered.

Globe and Mail 

One of the Top 10 Artists of the Decade. To borrow a line from another Sondheim show, art isn’t easy. But Cushman makes it seem so.

 

NOW Magazine