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JERRY DIXON, is an award-winning director, actor, writer, teacher, and performing arts consultant.
AS A DIRECTOR, Dixon has helmed premiere or development productions of Hart Island, Ferguson, Modern, A Proper Place, Barnstormer, Gun & Powder, Take Me America, Great Wall, Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Gunter, and the first full production of Kirtsen Child’s Funked Up Fairy Tales. Regional direction credits include The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime, Songs For A New World, Show Boat, Bernarda Alba, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Crowns, and The Full Monty.
Spanning over two decades, Dixon honed his developmental directing and dramaturgical skills, having been a participant in the prestigious NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Which, boast writers of A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder, Tuck Everlasting, and Amelie, to name a few. He has also used these talents, for new work and new concepts, at Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, Village Theatre Originals, and the National Alliance of Musical Theatre (NAMT).
AS A STAGE ACTOR, Dixon has appeared on Broadway, and off-Broadway, starring in the original casts of Once On This Island (DANIEL/ocr), Five Guys Named Moe (NO MAX/ocr), Bright Lights Big City (TAD), Avenue X (MILTON/osr), Romantic Poetry (FRANKIE), tick, tick... Boom! (MICHAEL/ocr), Steve (BRIAN), and If/Then (STEPHEN/ocr).
ON FILM, he can be seen in VINEYARDS, as Mr. Gatsby, in PEACEMAKER as Special Agent Barnes, and YOU’RE NOT ALONE, as Dr. Henderson.
FOR TELEVISION, his credits include guest-starring roles on “The Blacklist” (NBC season nine), “FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS season four, “Blue Bloods” (CBS season eleven), “Law & Order” (CBS season six), "He's With Me" (YouTube series season two), “Gotham” (NBC season three), and “Everwood” (WB season four).
HIS AWARD-WINNING VOICE-OVER WORK includes audio-books DINOSAUR BONES, HENRY’S FREEDOM BOX, ZANE AND THE HURRICANE, and the series WHO CARES ABOUT ENERGY? - All streaming currently on various services.
STUDIO RECORDINGS Dixon most recently provided vocals for “Come To Me” on SONY release “Reflect: The Songs Of Tom Kitt”. Last year BROADWAY RECORDS touted Dixon vocals on Chip Deffaa’s Irving Berlin Collection “Sweet & Hot”. This season, that same company will re-release the ten-year anniversary edition of his holiday album”Season of Joy”, to raise funds for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (the UNHCR).
AS A FEATURED CONCERT SOLOIST & DIRECTOR Dixon has sung with Belgian National Symphony, The National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, and an evening of Sondheim with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. He has directed concerts, which include artists Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey, Marin Mazzie, Idina Menzel, and Tony-winner LaChanze, for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, as well as performing for the celebrated series.
AS A WRITER, Dixon has written special material for USO, CBS, VH1, Comedy Central, and The View. His original musical Guess Who’s Coming for Chitlins? Which premiered at the Thalia Theatre, in Hamburg, Germany.
AS TEACHER, COACH, & SCRIPT CONSULTANT Jerry Dixon offers one-on-on coaching for actors and actor-singers, as well as a variety of master class curriculum, for groups, small to large. Writers can tap Dixon’s skills for dramaturgical guidance for character study, scene issues, verbatim theatre, cultural storytelling, to name a few…