SOULPEPPER 2024: The Death of Walt Disney (Outside the March), Age is a Feeling 

FOR SOULPEPPER: The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale (Outside the March), I'm Doing This For You, Lessons in Temperament (Outside the March).

Mitchell Cushman is a director, creator and founding Artistic Director of Outside the March, as well as one of Canada's leading immersive theatre artists. 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. Previous Outside the March 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 and Lessons in Temperament.

Other recent directing credits: 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); Eureka Day, The Effect, Hand to God, The Aliens (Coal Mine); Brantwood (Sheridan). 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 and his productions have received 14 Toronto Theatre Critics Awards. In 2019, NOW Magazine named him as one of Toronto’s Top 10 theatre artists of the decade.