Kenny Ortega

The Profile

Kenny Ortega is an American director, producer and choreographer known for directing and staging large-scale musical and concert projects, including Michael Jackson's This Is It and popular film and stage musicals.

Born April 18, 1950. Ortega is publicly known as a director and choreographer who has worked on film, television and live concert productions.

The available DeBaser review praises Kenny Ortega's Michael Jackson's This Is It as a global spectacle that showcases Jackson's creative genius while noting commercial and conspiratorial controversies. The reviewer admires the film's editing and theatrical ambition and regards it as a unique chance to see Jackson at work. Criticisms focus on the operation's speculative nature and unanswered behind-the-scenes questions.