Jamie McGonnigal

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Jamie McGonnigal

Born James Campbell McGonnigal
August 6, 1975 (1975-08-06) (age 32)
Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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Jamie McGonnigal (born August 6, 1975 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American producer, actor, and director currently based in New York.

Jamie is a recipient of the 2006 New England Theatre Conference Regional Award recognizing his charitable work in the theatre world. As a theatrical producer and director, Jamie has been responsible for many of New York's most acclaimed concerts of recent years.

As the Founding Artistic Producer of The World AIDS Day Concerts and as a Founding Producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Jamie has presented the New York Premiere of Stephen Schwartz' Children of Eden, the first major NY revisitation of Pippin starring Rosie O'Donnell and Ben Vereen, Snoopy The Musical (starring Tony Award-Winner Sutton Foster) The Secret Garden (named in top ten theatre events of 2005 by Playbill.com) Rags at Nokia Theatre Times Square (Starring Lainie Kazan), and the first major revival of the cult hit Runaways by Elizabeth Swados. His FLOPZ n' CUTZ series benefiting the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation was declared a “smash” by New York's NEXT Magazine. Named an “impresario” by Time Out New York, he has produced and/or directed more than 50 events in just three years for The Matthew Shepard Foundation, God's Love We Deliver, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Parkinson's Resource Organization, The National AIDS Fund, Opening Act and The Pied Piper Children's Theatre. His work has earned him National recognition as well as a special award from The 2006 New England Theatre Conference. Over the few years Jamie has been presenting benefits and concerts, he has had the opportunity to work with luminaries such as Betty Buckley, Alan King, Robert Altman, Chita Rivera, Judd Hirsch, Mike Nichols, Tony Walton, Jennifer Holliday, Kathleen Marshall, Stephen Schwartz, Sutton Foster, 5-Time Emmy Award Winner David Canary, and dozens more. He has directed sold-out cabaret concerts for Broadway celebrities including Laura Benanti, Max von Essen, Gavin Creel, Laura Bell Bundy, John Tartaglia and Mandy Gonzalez.

His work as a voice actor for animated features include television appearances on 4Kids Entertainment, Fox, Cartoon Network and The WB on titles such as Viva Pinata, F-Zero, Pokémon, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and Chaotic and Japanese titles such as Magic User's Club, Weiss Kreuz, The World of Narue, Jungle Emperor Leo, Arcade Gamer Fubuki, Kizuna, Patlabor, and The Weathering Continent, and Playstation 2's Shadow Hearts: From The New World and Xbox 360's Viva Pinata and Bullet Witch. Jamie was nominated for an American Anime Award for Best Male Comic Actor for his performance in Magic User's Club.

In 2007, Jamie travelled to South Africa and Namibia for 7 weeks as an ambassador for the United Nations' HERO campaign assisting remote AIDS-affected communities. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation and acts as camp director for Camp TLC, a summer camp for inner city teens living with HIV/AIDS [www.jdaf.org]. Additionally in 2007, Jamie founded the Broadway Loves the 80s Concerts, hosted by Mo Rocca and featuring performances from Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Kate Shindle, Julia Murney and Tony Vincent. The concerts will continue in 2008 at Joe's Pub.

Current projects include producing an album of lesser-known songs of Academy and Grammy Award-Winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz, and continuing to produce several concerts and benefits around the New York City Area.

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