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Brian stokes mitchell ragtime3/22/2023 In addition to the stage, Mitchell has also acted in five films and numerous television episodes through the years. He was nominated for Tony Awards for all three of those musicals and won the award for his portrayal of Fred Graham/Petruchio in Kiss Me Kate. Most notably he was the lead in the original cast of Ragtime in 1998, and in revivals of Kiss Me Kate (1999), and Man of La Mancha (2002). Over the next twenty-eight years he starred in nine other Broadway musicals. Mitchell first performed on Broadway in the original Broadway cast of the 1988 musical Mail, for which he won the Theatre World Award. He quips that “I can kind of play everything because I am everything,” referring to his mixed racial heritage-African American, German, Scottish, and American Indian, among others. After discovering the theatre through Shakespeare, he took any role that came his way. When Mitchell was in junior high, his family settled in San Diego, where he was cast in his first stage play, Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. He spent his early life on various military bases overseas while his father worked as a Navy Engineer, following in the military footsteps of Mitchell’s grandfather who was one of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. He’s left an indelible mark on American theatre and on the lives of many who have participated in it.īrian Stokes Mitchell was born in Seattle, Washington on Halloween, 1957, to George and Lillian Mitchell. Since his first part in a play in Junior High, Brian Stokes Mitchell (originally known as just Brian Mitchell) has been loved by audiences all over the world.
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