Matthew Mitchell - Producer

Matthew Mitchell was born in Brighton, England in 1971. After attending Lancing College he went up to Cambridge University to read English and Education.

Matthew is currently producing the musical La Cage Aux Folles at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway – the production has won 3 Tony Awards (Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical and Best Director) as well as winning 3 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards and the Drama League Award for Best Musical Revival.

A prolific West End Theatre producer, recent Matthew Mitchell productions or co-productions in the West End include; La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse – Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival), Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells, national and international tours), Epitaph for George Dillon with Joseph Fiennes and Francesca Annis (Comedy), Don Carlos with Sir Derek Jacobi (Gielgud), The Solid Gold Cadillac with Patricia Routledge (Garrick), Coyote On A Fence (Duchess), Endgame with Sir Michael Gambon and Lee Evans (Albery), Calico (Duke Of Yorks), The Price with Warren Mitchell (Apollo), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Playhouse), Sweet Panic (Duke of York’s), After Mrs Rochester (Duke of York’s), Noises Off (Piccadilly), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Comedy), Vincent in Brixton (Playhouse), The Rocky Horror Show (Queen’s and national tour) and Three Sisters with Kristen Scott Thomas (Playhouse).

Other Matthew Mitchell productions include The Magnets – Magnetude (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Eye Contact (The Riverside Studios), The Maiden’s Prayer (The Bush), The Boys Next Door (The Latchmere), Acis And Galatea, Suicide In B Flat (both BAC), Sleuth, Rozencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (both ADC Theatre, Cambridge), and Little Shop of Horrors, West Side Story and Sweeney Todd (all Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Freelance production credits include the reopening of the Cambridge Arts Theatre, The Cambridge Footlights National Tour (1994), Griff Rhys Jones’ “Another Bloody Gala” directed by Sam Mendes, Stephen Fry’s Sexpo ’93 and a tribute to George ‘Dadie’ Rylands at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Current projects include a major international tour of La Cage Aux Folles, a forthcoming production of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas, to be followed by a major UK and international tour. He is also producing a major motion picture with his film company, Circadian, which will be shot in LA in 2011.
Matthew has also served as an elected politician, representing Warwick Ward on Westminster City Council. He lives in West Sussex in the South of England.