Jon M. Chu

Chu makes big, bright crowd-pleasers built on music and family. In Crazy Rich Asians a New York professor travels to Singapore with her boyfriend and finds out how rich his family is. In the Heights follows a Washington Heights bodega owner deciding whether to retire to the Dominican Republic. Wicked goes back to Oz to tell the Wicked Witch of the West's side.

Signature

• Musicals staged at full scale (In the Heights, Wicked).
• Immigrant and diaspora families (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights).
• Pop performance, from the concert film Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.
• Lavish colour and production design.