Born in
Cali,
Colombia, Trujillo moved with his family to the Canadian suburb of
North York, Toronto, with his family at age 12. Trujillo named his production company, Two Kings Productions in memory of his father and brother. He studied science at the
University of Toronto and later attended chiropractic school. However, he left school to pursue a dance career in New York City. Regarding his desire to become a choreographer, he said, "I knew that
Fosse would be my last show as a dancer when I began feeling limited by somebody else's work. I didn’t get to express myself, and I needed to do something about it." In 2011, Trujillo had four shows simultaneously running on Broadway:
Memphis,
Jersey Boys,
The Addams Family, and
Next to Normal, the recipient of the 2010
Pulitzer Prize.
Broadway and off-Broadway Trujillo made his
Broadway debut as a performer in ''
Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989. He also appeared in Guys and Dolls
(1992), Victor/Victoria
(1998), and Fosse
(1999). He made his choreographic debut in 2005 with All Shook Up
, followed up by Jersey Boys'' the same year. Off-Broadway, he choreographed Paul Simon's
The Capeman at the Public Theater,
Invisible Thread (2015 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination),
Bare: A Pop Opera (2004),
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for
City Center Encores!,
The Great American Trailer Park Musical (2005),
The Public Theater—
Shakespeare in the Park (New York City's production of
Romeo and Juliet),
Kismet for Encores!,
Saved (2008) for
Playwrights Horizons (
Lucille Lortel Award nomination), and
Days of Wine and Roses (2023) for
Atlantic Theater Company (with Karla Puno). He directed
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine on Broadway at the
Minskoff Theatre and was the director and choreographer of the digital concert
¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices.
Regional and international theater He was the director and choreographer for
Arrabal at the
American Repertory Theater in Boston, which earned him an
Elliot Norton Award for direction,
Cirque du Soleil's
Paramour, as well as
Flashdance the Musical, which had a North America tour from 2013 to 2015. His
regional theatre credits include
Mambo Kings (San Francisco),
Zhivago and
The Wiz at the
La Jolla Playhouse in
San Diego, a US tour of
Kiss of the Spider Woman (performer, mid-1990s), and
West Side Story in 1999 and 2009 at the
Stratford Festival, Canada. In 2007, he also choreographed the Disney musical
Tarzan in
Scheveningen. Additional theatre credits include
Carmen; An Afro-Cuban Musical (
Helen Hayes Award nomination),
Kiss of the Spider Woman (
North Shore Music Theatre),
Kiss Me Kate (
Tokyo),
Needfire (
Royal Alexandra Theatre), a musical adaptation of
Twelfth Night (
Tokyo), and segments of
Chita Rivera's Chita and All That Jazz. Trujillo is director and choreographer of
Real Women Have Curves, a musical based on the play of the same name. The musical premiered in 2023.
Opera Trujillo choreographed
The Marriage of Figaro for the
Los Angeles Opera and
Salome for the
New York City Opera. == Personal life ==