Director

Cameron Mithell

Cameron Mitchell’s career began in the children’s chorus of the Cameron Mackintosh and Adelaide Festival Centre’s production of Oliver!, this was followed by The Snow Queen and the world premiere of Opera Australia’s Voss. Other musical theatre credits include Baby John in West Side Story and My Fair Lady, Chicago, Hot Shoe Shuffle. Concert versions of Mack & Mabel and Zorba, and the Australian premiere of Monty Python’s Spamalot. He also was a featured dancer in the Baz Luhrman’s  Moulin Rouge!

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 co-created the critically acclaimed From Stage to Screen, which toured internationally and was televised on the ABC and also The Showgirl Within.

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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 and The Diamonds  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 Dancing With The Stars and worked as choreographer on the feature film Peter Rabbit 2.

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He has worked for many years with internationally renowned cabaret and musical theatre artist Trevor Ashley on shows such as Pop Princess 2, Gentlemen Prefer Blokes,Diamonds Are For Trevor, Fat Swan, Little Orphan Trashley, Twins, The Lyin' Queen and The Bodybag. 

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

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Cameron made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Australian premiere of the Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, with a sellout season at The Hayes Theatre. He directed To Barbra With Love with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra commemorating Streisand’s 80th birthday.

He directed and choreographed  Singin’ In The Rain In Concert at QPAC and the Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It  for which he won both Best Direction and Best Choreography of a musical at the 2023 Sydney Theatre Awards,  Menopause The Musical for which he was nominated for Best Direction and Best Choreography at the 2025 Green Room Awards, He was Associate Director and Choreographer on the hugely successful Titanique for Michael Cassell Group.

He directed and choreographed Sweet Charity for Prospero Arts and QPAC, Putting It Together for Impresario Productions at the Foundry Theatre, was Assistant Director to Graeme Murphy on The Merry Widow for Opera Australia and most recently directed and choreographed How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at The Hayes Theatre.