Kathleen Marshall is an award-winning theatre, film and television director and choreographer. A nine-time Tony Award nominee, she has won the award three times for Best Choreography for the Broadway revivals of Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game and Anything Goes. She has worked on more than 20 Broadway shows and she is the first woman who has directed a play, directed a musical and choreographed a musical on Broadway.
Most recently, she directed and choreographed the world premiere of Sinatra, The Musical at the Birmingham Rep in the UK, produced in association with Universal Music Group and Frank Sinatra Enterprises.
Her Broadway credits include Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes, The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town, In Transit, Living on Love, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Follies, Seussical, Kiss Me, Kate, 1776 and Swinging on a Star. She directed and choreographed Anything Goes in the West End for which she received an Olivier Award for Best Choreography. Off-Broadway and regional credits include The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Transport Group), Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Mamma Mia! (Hollywood Bowl), Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labor’s Lost (Old Globe), On the Town (Boston Pops), My Paris (Long Wharf), Ever After (Paper Mill) and Diner (Signature Theatre).
Her film and television credits include My Week with Marilyn (choreographer), Once Upon a Mattress starring Carol Burnett and Tracey Ullman (director and choreographer), The Music Man starring Matthew Broderick (choreographer) and multiple episodes of 2 Broke Girls.
Kathleen served as the Artistic Director for City Center Encores! for four seasons, during which time Encores! received a special Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre. Her credits for Encores! include The Band Wagon, I’m Getting My Act Together…, Bells Are Ringing, Carnival and Babes in Arms, among many others.
In addition to her Tonys and Olivier Awards, she has received three Drama Desk Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, an Emmy nomination, the Astaire Award, the George Abbott Award, the Smith College Medal (her alma mater), the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts and she has been named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania.