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Bio

🎬🎭🎥🕴Mitch is a stage and film director, actor, announcer, interviewer, coach, mentor and teacher. He is a directing member of the Actors Studio, a member of BAFTA and was a Fellow at the Juilliard School and the AFI.

📽 He is the President of The Film Festival Group, providing services to film fests and offering filmmakers festival and market strategies and story/editorial guidance.

🎥 🎭 Mitch’s Holocaust drama, SHADOWS, a story of love, family and survival during the Holocaust, won awards around the globe. He directed the films IN CONFIDENCE (Cannes 2015), HUNGRY IS THE TIGER and MORPHING GRAVITY. Mitch was Artistic Supervisor of the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson opera EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, collaborated with Peter Gabriel and Moses Pendleton on PASSION, and directed Jean Anouilh’s ANTIGONE for the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

🎭 💃🕺🎵 In NY, he directed SORRY! at Circle Rep, AMORPHOUS GEORGE for MCC and the revival Lyle Kessler’s ORPHANS. His production of Arthur Kopit’s WINGS was much-honored. His production of GOD HELP US!, starring Ed Asner as the Almighty, was touring North America until the pandemic. Mitch was Creative Director of the BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION of the University of Virginia: 4 hours, 850 performers (including Leslie Odom, Jr., Andra Day, the Goo Goo Dolls and many more), with 23,000 in the audience.

🏟Mitch is currently prepping DANZA PER VITA, a multi-media stadium show conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, commemorating the losses and heroes of the pandemic facing us.

🌠🎬 He was producer and host of the American Film Institute’s GREAT FILMMAKERS series and hosts many public conversations about cinema and the arts.

🌠🎭 Mitch produced tributes to Darren Aronofsky, hosted by Martin Scorsese & Ellen Burstyn, to Nicholas Cage, hosted by Sean Connery, to Clint Eastwood, hosted by Tony Bennett & Dustin Hoffman and to Don Cheadle, hosted by Halle Berry. Mitch directed the Spirit of Independence Awards and has presented, moderated or directed tributes featuring George Clooney, Quincy Jones, Angelica Huston, Shirley MacLaine, Sharon Stone, Elton John, Kanye West, Brad Pitt, Michael Moore, Tom Cruise, Guns n Roses, Charlize Theron, Christopher Nolan and many others.

🌠 At the Cannes Film Festival, he hosted the Producer’s Forum and produced and hosted the REFUGEE VOICES IN FILM conference. For many years, Mitch was Production Director of MOMIX Dance Theatre 🩰 and a Special Representative to the United Nations. 🇺🇳

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