Sergio Trujillo


Sergio Trujillo is a Colombian-American theater director, choreographer, dancer, and actor. Born in Colombia and raised in Toronto, Canada, he is an American citizen and resides in New York City. Trujillo was nominated for the 2016 Tony Award for Best Choreography for On Your Feet!, and won the award in 2019 for Ain't Too Proud, becoming the first Hispanic recipient of the award. In 2015, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for Memphis.
He received his first Emmy Award nomination in 2021 for NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center.

Biography

Born in Cali, Colombia, Trujillo moved with his family to the Canadian suburb of North York, Toronto, with his family at age 12. Trujillo named his production company, Two Kings Productions in memory of his father and brother.
He studied science at the University of Toronto and later attended chiropractic school. However, he left school to pursue a dance career in New York City. Regarding his desire to become a choreographer, he said, "I knew that 'Fosse' would be my last show as a dancer when I began feeling limited by somebody else's work. I didn’t get to express myself, and I needed to do something about it."
In 2011, Trujillo had four shows simultaneously running on Broadway: Memphis, Jersey Boys, The Addams Family, and Next to Normal, the recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.

Broadway and off-Broadway

Trujillo made his Broadway debut as a performer in Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989. He also appeared in Guys and Dolls, Victor/Victoria, and Fosse. He made his choreographic debut in 2005 with All Shook Up, followed up by Jersey Boys the same year.
Trujillo was the choreographer of the Broadway production of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, for which he won a 2018 Chita Rivera Award for Dance and Choreography. Other Broadway credits include: On Your Feet!, Hands on a Hardbody, Leap of Faith, and Guys and Dolls. In September 2023, it was announced that Trujillo would transfer his and Karla Puno's choreography from the Off-Broadway production of Days of Wine and Roses to Broadway in January 2024.
Off-Broadway, he choreographed Paul Simon's The Capeman at the Public Theater, Invisible Thread, Bare: A Pop Opera, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for City Center Encores!, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, The Public Theater—Shakespeare in the Park, Kismet for Encores!, Saved for Playwrights Horizons, and Days of Wine and Roses for Atlantic Theater Company. He directed Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre and was the director and choreographer of the digital concert ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices.

Regional and international theater

He was the director and choreographer for Arrabal at the American Repertory Theater in Boston, which earned him an Elliot Norton Award for direction, Cirque du Soleil's Paramour, as well as Flashdance the Musical, which had a North America tour from 2013 to 2015.
His regional theatre credits include Mambo Kings, Zhivago and The Wiz at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, a US tour of Kiss of [the Spider Woman (musical)|Kiss of the Spider Woman], and West Side Story in 1999 and 2009 at the Stratford Festival, Canada. He also choreographed at the Village Theatre for their musical staging of The Wedding Banquet. In the West End, he choreographed Peggy Sue Got Married. In 2007, he also choreographed the Disney musical Tarzan in Scheveningen.
Additional theatre credits include Carmen; An Afro-Cuban Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kiss Me Kate, Needfire, a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night, and segments of Chita Rivera's Chita and All That Jazz. Trujillo is director and choreographer of Real Women Have Curves, a musical based on the play of the same name. The musical premiered in 2023.

Opera

Trujillo choreographed The Marriage of Figaro for the Los Angeles Opera and Salome for the New York City Opera.

Personal life

In 2011, Trujillo married his long-time partner, actor Jack Noseworthy. They had been together for 21 years. They have a son.

Awards and nominations