KURT STAMM - Bio & Credits

KURT STAMM (Artistic Director and Founder | Director/Co-Choreographer,

Legally Blonde; Director, Little Shop of Horrors) Off Broadway:

Director/Choreographer, Closer Than Ever (2013 Joseph A. Callaway Award

nomination, Best Choreography of a Musical,) Our Sinatra (2000 M.A.C Award, Best

Musical Review), Below the Valley of the Dolls, Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love, 2016 Oscar

Hammerstein Awards honoring Angela Lansbury; Choreographer, They Wrote That with

Barry Man and Cynthia Weil, Starting Here, Starting Now. National Tours: Director,

Leader of the Pack, Our Sinatra. Regional: Director/Choreographer, Chicago, Closer

Than Ever, Our Sinatra, Baby, Little Shop of Horrors, Guys & Dolls, West Side Story,

Thoroughly Modern Millie, The World Goes ‘Round, Anything Goes, Oklahoma, Cole,

Damn Yankees, and Starting Here, Starting Now. Broadway: Associate Director, Fosse

(1999 Tony Award, Best Musical); Associate Director, The American Songbook.

Founder and current Artistic Director of Mason Street Warehouse and the Saugatuck

Center for the Arts in Saugatuck, MI (20 years.) At Mason Street Warehouse:

Director/Choreographer, Shout, The Mod Musical, Just Too Big, In The Heights*, A

Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder*, Mamma Mia!, Once the Musical*, Memphis

the Musical*, It Shoulda Been You, Million Dollar Quartet, The Great American Trailer

Park Musical*, Cabaret*, First Date, Steam Heat (World Premier), Beehive, Xanadu,

Closer Than Ever, Avenue Q, Our Sinatra (10 th Anniversary Production), Chicago, Dirty

Rotten Scoundrels*, Marvelous Wonderettes, The Full Monty, The 25 th Annual...Spelling

Bee, Das Barbecü, Evita, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Altar Boyz, Lucky Stiff, The Thing About

Men, Honky-Tonk Highway, Smokey Joes Café, and Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love.

Director, 8 The Play, The 39 Steps, Dirty Blonde, and Bright Ideas. 2015 Wilde Award

Winner of the Founder’s Award for Theatre in the state of Michigan. Industrials:

Director – AmfAR starring Christina Aguilera, Mac Cosmetics, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals,

Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Urovant Pharmaceuticals, Canon, Mercedes, Lowe’s Home

Improvement, ThyssenKrupp Steal, Turner Network’s truTV, Pfizer, The College Board,

Rite Aide, Cadillac, Kodak, and Broadway.com. Cum Laud Graduate, University of

Utah. Love to my husband and lifeline, Joe and Brody. Blessed to be celebrating 20

years at Mason Street Warehouse and the Saugatuck Center for the Arts.