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Mykal Rand is an award winning and multi-award nominated Director, Choreographer and multi-disciplined Artist, who’s career spans nearly 4 decades.
Mykal recently directed and choreographed a hugely successful production of West Side Story for Festival Ljubljana, where, the year before his production of Chicago was also a smash hit.
Mykal is also honoured to be Associate Director/Choreographer for the record-breaking German version of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, Starlight Express, which just celebrated it's 35th Anniversary in June 2023.
In 2022 Mykal won the Off West End Award of Best Director for his version of Five Guys Named Moe, Upstairs at the Gatehouse. A show which he was very familiar with after his time working as Resident Director/Choreographer for the smash hit musical, at a purpose-built theatre in London.
Just before creating Five Guys Named Moe, he had just finished choreographing a wonderful production of the musical The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin for Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Other Director and Choreographer credits include Rent, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Smokey Joes Café, Fame, Supernatural, Purlie, Grease, Passion, Release the Beat, Golden Boy, Cabaret de Monaco, Tamperer featuring Maya, Kate Nash - Mouthwash and Janie Dee at The Donmar Warehouse.
Performance credits include, Big Moe and Nomax in Five Guys Named Moe, Simba in The Lion King, Gitlow in Purlie, The Boss in Hot Stuff, Ken in Smokey Joes Café, Rhythm Boy, Understudy Mister Magix in My One & Only, Stretch in Oh! What a Night.
Mykal played the roles of Tom Collins, Benny and Angel on numerous occasions in the Original West End production of Rent at the Shaftesbury Theatre. He also played Tom Collins in Dublin, the UK Tour and at The Prince of Wales Theatre in London, which he also choreographed.
Mykal, has performed in Starlight Express in London, Japan, Germany, the UK Tour, the Asian Tour and the New Zealand Tour. He was also Associate Director and Associate Choreographer on all of the tours. Parts played include Rusty, Poppa and Electra.
Mykal can also be seen playing an Apostle in the Emmy Award winning video of Jesus Christ Superstar, produced by The Really Useful Video Company.
Mykal is delighted to be Director/Choreographer for the new concert touring the UK, 'Just My Imagination!' (The Temptations Tribute Show), produced by Veritas Entertainment.
