Artist Bio

(Bio as of February 2025)

Kathleen Marshall is an award-winning theatre, television and film 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 twenty Broadway shows and she is the first woman to have directed a play, directed a musical and choreographed a musical on Broadway.

Most recently, she directed and choreographed the world premieres of two new musicals – My Best Friend’s Wedding at Ogunquit Playhouse and 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, “The Music Man” starring Matthew Broderick (choreographer) and multiple episodes of “2 Broke Girls”, including the series finale.

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.