About Andrew:

About Andrew John Mitchell

Andrew John Mitchell 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. His professional background includes work with 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, the Social Media Coordinator for the Delaware Arts Alliance, and has worked in freelance arts marketing for theatre organizations in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Andrew is a member of the Delaware Arts Alliance, Americans for the Arts, and an Emerging Arts Advocate for the Maryland Citizens for the Arts.

At the Milburn Stone Theatre, Andrew has directed over twenty 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 Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, American Psycho, Chicago, The Who’s Tommy, Mamma Mia!, The SpongeBob Musical, Godspell, She Loves Me, The Rocky Horror Show, Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play, Urinetown, and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma.

Beyond Milburn Stone Theatre, Andrew has directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, All in the Timing by David Ives, and The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang for Cecil College’s Theatre program. He also 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 Theatre 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 expanded from a one-day event to a three-day festival. The Cecil County Independent Film Festival is the largest of its kind serving Cecil County and celebrated its fifth season in 2024.

Andrew earned a Bachelor's 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 of Cab Calloway School of the Arts (Class of 2000) and a recipient of the Calloway Medal.

Andrew lives in Newark, Delaware.