Sergio Trujillo
Sergio Trujillo is a theater director and choreographer. Born in Colombia and raised in Toronto, Canada, he is now 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  Canada suburb of North York, Toronto with his family at age 12. He is very close with his mother, Sara Trujillo, and his sister, Amparo Casilimas. His beloved father, Reynaldo Trujillo, as well as his brother, Reinaldo Trujillo, are deceased. 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. 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"." In 2011, Trujillo had the honor of having four shows simultaneously running on Broadway: Tony Award winning Best Musical "Memphis" (Olivier Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk and Astaire Award nominations), Tony and Olivier Award winning Best Musical "Jersey Boys" (Greenroom Award, Olivier, Drama Desk, Dora, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), "The Addams Family", and "Next to Normal", the recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Broadway and off-broadway. Trujillo made his  Broadway debut as a performer in "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" in 1989. 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 "" 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). Off-Broadway he  choreographed Paul Simon's "The Capeman" at the Public Theater, "Invisible Thread" (2015 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination), "" (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 & Juliet (2007), "Kismet" for Encores! and "Saved" (2008) for Playwrights Horizons (Lucille Lortel Award nomination). He directed "Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine" on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre and was the director/choreographer of 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 Awards for direction, Cirque Du Soleil’s "Paramour", as well as "Flashdance the Musical", which had a North America tour from 2013 to 15. 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. 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". In 2007, he also choreographed the Disney musical "Tarzan" in Scheveningen. 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". Opera. Trujillo choreographed "The Marriage of Figaro" for Los Angeles Opera and "Salome" for the New York City Opera. Personal life. Sergio Trujillo was distinguished as one of the Top 100 Colombians  in the world by President Juan Manuel Santos and was voted as one of the top 50 Creative Colombian Artists in the world by Forbes Magazine. He is the first choreographer ever invited to serve as a voting member of the American Theatre Wing’s Advisory Committee for the Tony Awards, and serves on the advisory boards of R.Evolutión Latina and New York Theatre Barn. He is an active member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Trujillo married his long-time partner, actor Jack Noseworthy, in 2011 after 21 years together. Trujillo and Noseworthy welcomed son Lucas Alejandro Truworthy , in 2018. Awards and nominations. Source: Internet Broadway Database