Sergio Trujillo

Sergio Trujillo
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Cali, Colombia
Occupations
  • Dancer
  • choreographer
  • director
  • actor
Spouse
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(m. 2011)​
Children1

Sergio Trujillo is a Colombian theater director, choreographer, dancer, and actor. Born in Colombia and raised in Toronto, Canada, he is an American citizen and resides in New York City. Trujillo was the recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Choreography for Ain't Too Proud and the 2015 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for Memphis. He is the first ever Hispanic recipient of the Tony Award for Best Choreography.

He received his first Emmy Award nomination in 2021 for NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center.

Biography

Trujillo was born in Cali, Colombia, and moved to the Canadian suburb of North York, Toronto, with his family at age 12. Trujillo named his production company Two Kings Productions in memory of his father and brother.

He studied science at the University of Toronto and then attended chiropractic school. However, he left school to pursue a dance career in New York City.[1] Of his desire to be a choreographer, he said, "I knew that 'Fosse' would be my last show as a dancer when I began feeling limited by somebody else's work. I didn’t get to express myself, and I needed to do something about it."[2]

In 2011, Trujillo had four shows simultaneously running on Broadway: Memphis, Jersey Boys, The Addams Family, and Next to Normal, the recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.[3]

Broadway and off-Broadway

Trujillo made his Broadway debut as a performer in Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989.[4] He also appeared in Guys and Dolls (1992), Victor/Victoria (1998), and Fosse (1999). He made his choreographic debut in 2005 with All Shook Up, followed up by Jersey Boys the same year.

Trujillo is the choreographer of the Broadway production of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical which earned him a 2018 Chita Rivera Award for Dance and Choreography. Other Broadway credits include: On Your Feet! (Tony Award Nomination, Astaire Award), Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk nomination), Leap of Faith (Drama Desk Nomination), and Guys and Dolls (Astaire Awards nomination). In September 2023, it was announced that Trujillo would transfer his and Karla Puno's choreography from the Off-Broadway production of Days of Wine and Roses to Broadway in January 2024.[5]

Off-Broadway, he choreographed Paul Simon's The Capeman at the Public Theater, Invisible Thread (2015 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination), Bare: A Pop Opera (2004), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for City Center Encores!, The Great American Trailer Park Musical (2005), The Public Theater—Shakespeare in the Park (New York City's production of Romeo and Juliet), Kismet for Encores!, Saved (2008) for Playwrights Horizons (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), and Days of Wine and Roses (2023) for Atlantic Theater Company (with Karla Puno). He directed Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre and was the director and choreographer of the digital concert ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices.

Regional and international theater

He was the director and choreographer for Arrabal at the American Repertory Theater in Boston, which earned him an Elliot Norton Award for direction, Cirque du Soleil's Paramour, as well as Flashdance the Musical, which had a North America tour from 2013 to 2015.

His regional theatre credits include Mambo Kings (San Francisco), Zhivago and The Wiz at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, a US tour of Kiss of the Spider Woman (performer, mid-1990s), and West Side Story in 1999 and 2009 at the Stratford Festival, Canada.[2] He also choreographed at the Village Theatre for their musical staging of The Wedding Banquet (2003). In the West End, he choreographed Peggy Sue Got Married.[6][7] In 2007, he also choreographed the Disney musical Tarzan in Scheveningen.[8]

Additional theatre credits include Carmen; An Afro-Cuban Musical (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Kiss of the Spider Woman (North Shore Music Theatre), Kiss Me Kate (Tokyo), Needfire (Royal Alexandra Theatre), a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night (Tokyo), and segments of Chita Rivera's Chita and All That Jazz. Trujillo serves as director and choreographer of Real Women Have Curves, a new musical based on the play of the same name. The musical premiered in 2023. [9]

Opera

Trujillo choreographed The Marriage of Figaro for the Los Angeles Opera and Salome for the New York City Opera.[6]

Personal life

In 2011, Trujillo married his long-time partner, actor Jack Noseworthy. They had been together for 21 years. Trujillo and Noseworthy welcomed their son, Lucas Alejandro Truworthy, in 2018.[10]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ Kelly, Mary. "Sergio Trujillo" The Canada Encyclopedia, March 28, 2012
  2. ^ a b Herstein, Beth. "April 2009 interview with Sergio Trujillo" talkinbroadway.com, 2009
  3. ^ Clement, Olivia (May 20, 2008). "Ariana DeBose, Tony Yazbeck, and More Recipients of 2018 Chita Rivera Awards". Playbill.
  4. ^ "Sergio Trujillo – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  5. ^ "Days Of Wine and Roses The Musical". Days of Wine and Roses. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
  6. ^ a b Credits at Playbill.com Archived 2009-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Credits at BroadwayWorld.com
  8. ^ Gans, Andrew. "Jersey Boys' Trujillo Working on European Tarzan" Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, March 19, 2007
  9. ^ "Real Women Have Curves at A.R.T."
  10. ^ "Broadway Couple Sergio Trujillo & Jack Noseworthy Welcome a Baby Boy!". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  11. ^ McPhee, Ryan. " 'Hadestown Leads the Pack at the 2019 Tony Awards" Playbill, June 9, 2019
  12. ^ "Olivier Winners 2015" olivierawards.com, accessed May 20, 2016
  13. ^ Saved lortel.com, accessed May 20, 2016
  14. ^ Gans, Andrew. " 'Memphis', 'La Cage', Zeta-Jones, Finneran and More Are Outer Critics Circle Award Winners" Playbill, May 17, 2010
  15. ^ "36th Annual Elliot Norton Awards Recipients" wixstatic.com, retrieved June 11, 2019