Carl Schmehl
Carl Schmehl is an American stage director, choreographer and producer. He is the artistic director of The Manhattan Plaza Theatre Project in New York City and the artistic director of the nonprofit Nantucket-based theater group "On The Isle" ontheisle.org. Carl is also the creative director of The Shackman Group, an events a management company in New York City, a position he held for the past fifteen years. Schmehl lives in New York City.
Theater
Schmehl attended Emerson College. He started his show business career working with the national touring companies of Sugar Babies starring Carol Channing, Annie, A Chorus Line and Woman of the Year, starring Lauren Bacall.Schmehl began a twenty-year association with composer Charles Strouse when he directed Strouse's opera Nightingale in Boston, Massachusetts. Schmehl had a six-month run with the Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and worked for one year as audition choreographer for the show's national tour. He was stage manager and casting director for the Off-Broadway musical When Pigs Fly and part of the producing team for the Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular.
His most recent theatre credits include director and choreographer of productions of Nunsense, The Actor's Nightmare, The Pirates of Penzance, Up in the Rafters, and the off-Broadway play Almost Live from the Betty Ford Clinic. Schmehl has assisted Broadway director and choreographer Gillian Lynne on productions in New York, San Diego, London and Vienna. Most recently, he assistant directed Lynne's production of the musical Dear World in London's West End.
Schmehl's directing and choreography credits include The Bad Boy Club, Rockwell, The Aluminum Garden, It's All in the Book, Hello Dolly!, Tampa II, Vincentennial, Follies, and benefits for the American Cancer Society, United Cerebral Palsy, Good Samaritan's Bob Hope Awards, and others.