As a director Mitchell won international acclaim when her production of Soapy Smith's Alaskana Extravaganza was chosen as an American representative to The Olympic Arts Festival in Sydney, Australia in 2000.

[citation needed] She made her New York City debut directing Grand Central and 42nd by Arlitia Jones and The Resurrection of Humpty Dumpty by P. Shane Mitchell for The Samuel French Short Play Festival.

[citation needed] Mrs. Mitchell has directed over 40 plays including critically acclaimed productions of Into The Woods, Blithe Spirit, Dracula, Bat Boy: The Musical,[1][2] Cotton Patch Gospel, The Big Slam, Much Ado About Nothing, and Between Daylight and Boonville.

As an actress she has performed the works of Edward Albee, Tony Kushner and John Guare for those Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights.

In May 2008, Dagon debuted the role of the evil witch[3] in a newly penned musical version of Hansel and Gretel, a collaboration between her husband and Anchorage composer/lyricist Dennis Cleary.