Mitchell Cushman is a creator, playwright, director, 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. As a playwright, he is best known for co-creating the award-winning Brantwood (Sheridan College), Canada’s largest-ever immersive musical experience - depicting a century of high school life through 15 hours of scenes and musical numbers (2015 Dora Audience Choice Award). He is the author of an inventive adaptation of The Canterbury Tales (commissioned and developed by the Stratford Festival, premiering at Sheridan College in 2026), and co-creator of the critically-acclaimed immersive experiences The Tape Escape and The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (Outside the March), the latter of which has played in over 200 cities around the world. Also an accomplished dramaturge and developer of new work, Mitchell has specialized in collaborating with some of Canada’s leading theatre artists to help them create memoir-inspired pieces, including Haley McGee (The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale, Age is a Feeling), James Smith (Lessons in Temperament), Sébastien Heins (No Save Points), Rosamund Small (Performance Review), Devon Healey (Rainbow on Mars), Zorana Sadiq (Comfort Food) and Barbara Johnston (Songs By a Wannabe). He developed and directed the original production of Anika & Britta Johnson’s immersive cult musical Dr. Silver, A Celebration of Life (OtM). He is also currently writing a videogame for Cat Sumarai. 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.