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Jonathan Stuart Cerullo

Jonathan Stuart Cerullo has worked on Broadway as choreography consultant: Say, Goodnight Gracie, assistant director and/or choreo: Band In Berlin, Anna Karenina, The Three Musketeers, original Broadway cast: Legs Diamond, National Tour: CATS and Sweet Charity with Donna McKechnie. Also in New York, he was Choreographer for Big Apple Circus’ Carnivale! & Picturesque at Lincoln Center. His critically acclaimed (almost!) all-male production of  The Boys from Syracuse opened Musical Tonight! 20th Season at the Lion Theatre. This was the first production the Rogers and Hammerstein Organization has approved an all-male production in NYC of any of their titles.  In 2017 Jonathan produced and directed the sold-out 30th Anniversary Concert of the Tony-nominated musical Legs Diamond at Feinstein’s / 54 Below gathering back many of the original cast members. Earlier in 2017 he created, wrote and directed for Tony award-winning lyricists and composer, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, The Flip Side, The Unknown Gems of Ahrens and Flaherty and No Foolin' at Amas Music Theatre. In 2016 he won Best Director Award; Fictitious, Theater Now NY, NYMF 2015; Windywoo and 2009 Best of Fest, choreographer; Under Fire, 2016 Fresh Fruit Festival; director & choreographer, Chance, Fruity Award Outstanding Production Design and Outstanding Performance in a Musical, Courter Simmons, La Mama; Pins and Needles, Uta Hagen’s 50 Year Tribute, HB Studios  and Equity Library Theatre. TV: created and directed at Canada's Royal Theatre, Dear Mr. Gershwin, filmed for CBC TV, Choreo: Great Performances Evening At Pops, assistant director: Donny Osmond's, This Is The Moment, Natalie Cole’s Christmas Special. Film: associate choreographer: The First Wives Club, The Stepford Wives, The Cowboy Way. He also conceived, produced and directed the SDC Foundation's tribute video for the Mr. Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre. Regionally: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Goodspeed, Arena Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Uta Hagen's Dance Instructor in Six Dance Lessons; Geffen Playhouse,  Theatre By The Sea, and North Shore Music Theatre. He is a proud member of SDC, the Stage Director & Choreographers Society, Actors Equity Association, The Dramatist Guild, has served as Vice-Chair and Produced the 2016 SDC Foundation’s Joe A. Callaway Award, as well as a nominator for the Lucille Lortel Awards. Jonathan currently sits on the Associate Board for the NY Music Theatre Festival and an Artistic Advisor for the Music Theatre Factory. He has been a guest speaker for Career Transition for Dancers, NY Foundation for the Arts and The Abbott Center for Music Theatre Studies at Temple University. Jonathan created JSCTheatricals, LLC in 2013 and under this banner has produced numerous galas, stage readings, awards shows, and concerts. He has worked with luminaries such as Wynton Marsalis, Philip Glass, Philippe Petite, and Abigail Disney.  For more information please visit Producer | JSCTheatricals page.