About Andrew:

About Andrew John Mitchell

Andrew is the Artistic Director of the Milburn Stone Theatre at Cecil College in Cecil County, Maryland. He has worked for Cecil College since 2012 and full time since 2018. He has also worked for the University of Delaware, General Motors, Harry & David and ACME Markets. He is the former Marketing Director/Coordinator for Delaware Shakespeare, the Marketing Chair for the Chapel Street Players, Social Media Coordinator for the Delaware Arts Alliance and has worked freelance arts marketing for theatre organizations in Pennslyvania and Delaware. Andrew is a member of the Delaware Arts Alliance, Americans for the Arts and an Emerging Arts Advocate for the Maryland Citizens of the Arts.

For the Milburn Stone Theatre Andrew has directed over twelve productions, including Deathtrap, God of Carnage, Farragut North, Assassins, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Toxic Avenger, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Singin’ In The Rain, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Santaland Diaries, A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, American Psycho and Chicago.

Andrew directed the 2011 DTA, ESTA and AACT award winning production of Edward Albee’s Zoo Story for the Chapel Street Players, becoming the first director to bring a show from Delaware to the AACT national festival.

In 2019, Andrew became the festival director for the Cecil County Independent Film Festival, in its first year the festival received over 2,500 submissions and turned from a one day to three day festival. The Cecil County Independent Film Festival is the largest film festival of its kind to serve Cecil County.

Andrew received a Bachelors degree from the University of Delaware in 2006 and a Social Media Marketing Strategy Certificate from the University of Delaware in 2015. He is a graduate from Cab Calloway School of the Arts (class of 2000) and is a recipient of the Calloway Medal.

Andrew lives in Newark, Delaware.