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Biography

Cheryl Mintz celebrated 30+ seasons at McCarter Theatre Center, 25 as McCarter Theatre’s Resident Production Stage Manager, has Production Stage Managed 111 productions and 100+ workshops, 699 performances of A Christmas Carol and has collaborated with America’s finest directors, playwrights, designers and actors.  2025 marked Cheryl’s 39th production with Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emeritus, Emily Mann. Cheryl’s world premiere productions include Christopher Durang’s Tony winning Best Play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Turning Off the Morning News, Marina Carr’s Phaedra Backwards, John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee?, Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, Stephen Wadsworth’s The Figaro Plays, Ken Ludwig’s Murder on the Orient Express and Emily Mann’s The Pianist. Past highlights include Production Stage Manager for the McCarter and Broadway run of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, the McCarter and Kennedy Center world premiere run of Emily Mann’s Mrs. Packard, the world premiere of The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney and the American premiere of the musical Take Flight by John Weidman, music and lyrics by David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr. 

Theater directors that Cheryl has collaborated with include Athol Fugard, Tina Landau, Robert O’Hara, Rebecca Taichman, Nicholas Martin, Liesl Tommy, Stephen Wadsworth, John Kani, Jade King Carroll, Sam Buntrock, Roger Rees, David Leveaux, Mary Zimmerman, Gary Griffin, Jill Harrison, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Mark Lamos, Loretta Greco, Lisa Peterson, Regina Taylor, Jo Bonney, Walter Dallas, Daniel Fish, Kent Gash, Shirley Jo Finney, Noah Brody, Ben Steinfeld, Scott Zigler, Susan Schulman, Julianne Boyd, Scott Ellis, Michael Unger, Loretta Greco, Adam Immerwahr, Julio Monge, Simon Gray, C Ryanne Domingues, David Lynch, David Bell, David Gordon, John Driver, Susan Stroman, Mike Ockrent, and Jerome Robbins.

Cheryl is currently the Production Stage Manager for American Repertory Ballet with Choreographer in Residence Ethan Stiefel, and for New Jersey Ballet under the Artistic Direction of Maria Kowroski, having collaborated on over 75 ballets and 18 world premieres in 12 venues across New Jersey and NYC.  With over 60 Operas and a dozen major dance and music events to her credit, Cheryl has enjoyed thirteen collaborations with Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti and the Spoleto Festivals in USA and Italy most notably as the Direzione di scena Teatro Caio Melisso and the Direttore di scena and Associate Director for Maestro Menotti’s final productions of Amahl & the Night Visitors, The Singing Child (world premiere), Maria Golovin, The Medium and The Telephone.  Cheryl spent five seasons at Lincoln Center with the New York City Opera where she Stage Managed 40 operas and musicals, three tours and three PBS telecasts.  Other companies include: Opera New Jersey, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Baltimore Opera Company, National Grand Opera, NJPAC, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Intar, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Chautauqua Theatre Company, The Kitchen, New York Theatre Workshop, Passage Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Lewis Center for the Arts, and Yale Repertory Theatre.  

Currently Cheryl is an Adjunct Professor in Theatre at ÌÇÐÄvlog.  Past Adjunct Professor/Guest Lecturer in Theatre for: Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts  Rutgers University - Mason Gross School of the Arts, Pace University, Muhlenberg College, University of Iowa, NYU, Syracuse University, Rider University, Carnegie Mellon, Webster University, Lindenwood University, SUNY Stony Brook, Princeton Day School, is a USITT Portfolio Reviewer, Yale School of Drama Thesis Advisor, and has mentored hundreds of young theater professionals.  Cheryl has written for the Yale School of Drama Alumni Magazine, The New York Times, and is a contributor to the 4th edition of Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art & Technique of Design and the 2nd edition of Dance Production: Design & Technology.  Publications:  Acting Editions of Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca and A Place with the Pigs.  

Cheryl has six Broadway shows to her credit, received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama, Management Development Certificate from Princeton University, BA from SUNY Stony Brook, and named a SUNY Notable Alumni in the Arts.  For the Stage Managers’ Association Cheryl was an Executive Board Member/Director-at-Large for 21 years, and the current Del Hughes Award and Event Producer/Chairperson, and a Financial Oversight Committee member.  Cheryl is a recipient of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Applause Award.  Cheryl is proud to be featured as part of the book Performance of the Century, 100 Years of Actors' Equity Association and the Rise of Professional American Theater. 

Cheryl is the Creative Director and is a founder and partner of princetonVIRTUAL, which through creative virtual and live events brings your community together.  With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting suspension of production activity at theaters around the country, Cheryl pivoted to independent virtual theatrical projects and events which spanned Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional companies.  Projects during the theatrical pause include Emily Mann: A Celebration of 30 Years, Theater J’s 2020 Benefit, Edlavitch DCJCC Spring Gala 2021 featuring AvevA, Stage Managers’ Association Del Hughes Award Event, 20 non-profit events, A Virtual Christmas Carol for NewArts, and Babel for Passage Theatre.  Cheryl’s collaboration with director Emily Mann continued with The Night of the Iguana for La Femme Theatre Productions, FDR at WAR, and The Pianist Broadway developmental workshops. 

Cheryl is a recipient of the Award of Excellence at the 2020 New Jersey Theatre Alliance Curtain Call.

Cheryl Mintz 
Theatrical, Opera & Ballet Production Stage Manager AEA AGMA SMA 
Founder | Partner | Creative Direction - princetonVIRTUAL 

cherylgaymintz@gmail.com | 973.489.3398 

 

 

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