Broadway Teachers Workshop – Choreography Workshop 2017 Schedule (*subject to change)

Sunday, July 16, 2017 All workshops at Pearl Studios; 500 8th Avenue, 4th Floor, Studio 414

9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Registration/ Welcome/ Meet and Greet Your Peers

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. IT'S ALL ABOUT STYLE - with PATRICK O’NEILL (School of Rock)

This class will focus on different choreographic styles present in the American Musical Theatre. It will explore the work of artists such as Bob Fosse, Agnes DeMille, Jack Cole, Jerome Robbins and others, and will discuss ways for you to bring authenticity to your productions by honoring some of the original intent from these seminal choreographers. Led by Broadway dancer and choreographer Patrick O’Neill (Associate Choreographer for School of Rock), this workshop will help you look to the past for inspiration for your future productions!

Patrick O'Neill is currently the associate choreographer for Broadway's School of Rock. As a choreographer, he has staged concerts for Tony Award winner Kelly O'Hara at the Boston Pops and Mario Cantone on "The View," celebrating Barbara Walters and opening the show's 14th season. Other associate choreography includes Barry Manilow's Broadway bound musical, Harmony, Jerry Lewis and Marvin Hamlisch's The Nutty Professor, and the revival of On A Clear Day You Can See Forever with Harry Connick, Jr. As a teacher, he has served on staff for both Britney Spears and Usher's performing arts intensives.

12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break

1:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CAPTURING CREATIVITY: DANCE NOTATION - with JEFF WHITING (Scottsboro Boys, The Producers, Hair)

Discussion and demonstration of current methods for documenting staging and choreography for the stage. Explore both digital methods (Stage Write) and other methods utilized on Broadway musicals to capture creative work for the stage.

Jeff Whiting's Broadway credits include assistant director for the national tours of Hairspray and The Producers, assistant choreographer on the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein, Happiness at Lincoln Center, associate director/choreographer on The Scottsboro Boys, Hair, Big Fish, and Bullets Over Broadway. In addition to his work on Broadway, Whiting has directed numerous concerts including James Taylor at Carnegie Hall (with Bette Midler, Sting, Steve Martin and Tony Bennett) and "A Tribute to Susan Stroman" (co-hosted by Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane). Opera credits include We Open In Paris at Glimmerglass Opera.

3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. HOW TO BUILD A NUMBER ORGANICALLY - with CONNOR GALLAGHER (Beatlejuice, Robber Bridegroom, Tangled, Elf)

Work with Broadway choreographer Connor Gallagher to choreograph a number from the ground up! The best choreography doesn’t just string together steps randomly. Discover tips and techniques to unleash your creative ideas while maintaining the truth of character, and plot.

Connor Gallagher won the Astaire Award for his choreography for the Lortel winning revival of The Robber Bridegroom at the Roundabout Theatre Company. He is the choreographer for the forthcoming Broadway production of Beatlejuice for Warner Brothers Theatrical Ventures. He choreographed the first national tour of Elf the Musical, Tangled (Disney Cruise Lines), The Fabulous Lipitones at Goodspeed, Found at Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Twelve at Denver Center, Camelot at Westport Playhouse, Spelling Bee at Bucks County Playhouse, and was the Associate Director/Choreographer for the Public Theatre/Shakespeare In The Park production of Into the Woods, starring Amy Adams. He is the Associate Choreographer for the National and International tours of Beauty and the Beast and is directing and choreographing the new production of Beauty and the Beast for Disney Cruise Lines. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and began as a performer in the Broadway company of Beauty and the Beast.

Program Coordinators biographies:

Morgan Holbrook is a stage manager working in New York. Most recently, he was the Assistant Stage Manager on the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation with Allison Janney. Other Broadway credits include The Cherry Orchard with Diane Lane, Blackbird with Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels, The Gin Game with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, and The Audience with Helen Mirren. Morgan received a BFA in Stage Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Christopher Kee Anaya-Gorman Broadway: The Father with Frank Langella (Sub SM/PA), The Gin Game with James Earl Jones (PA). National Tours: Aladdin. NYC Credits: NY Fashion Week, On The Eve concert (Joe's Pub) and Orestes (New School Drama). Regional favorites: Evita (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), Baskerville at Cleveland Play House, The Importance of Being Earnest, Man of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Elmer Gantry (Signature Theatre) La Cage Aux Folles (Goodspeed Musicals), 50th Anniversary Greenshows (Utah Shakespeare Festival), The Kite Runner (Arizona Theatre Company).

Co-Artistic Directors’ biographies:

Gordon Greenberg directed the hit West End revival of Guys And Dolls, which was nominated for six Olivier Awards and played at both the Savoy Theatre and later the Phoenix Theatre, starring Rebel Wilson. He co-adapted Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn for Universal Stage Productions, which he directed on Broadway at Roundabout’s Studio 54. It was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and was filmed for PBS. His stage adaptation of Disney’s Tangled is currently playing on Disney Cruise Lines. Other current projects include co-writing Emerald City Music Hall, a movie musical for Nickelodeon, The Heart Of Rock and Rolls for Huey Lewis Productions, The Secret of My Success for Universal Stage Productions, and Port Au Prince, a commission for The New Group. Other credits include writing an original movie musical, Scramble Band, for the Disney Channel, directing and revising the Drama Desk Award winning production of Studs Terkel's Working at 59 East 59, Broadway In Chicago (Jeff Award nomination), The Old Globe and Asolo, which he developed with Stephen Schwartz and Lin Manuel Miranda. Rags (Roundabout, workshop), Johnny Baseball (Williamstown), The Single Girls Guide (Book Writer, Dallas Theatre Center, Capital Rep.), West Side Story (MUNY), the U.S. national tour of Guys & Dolls, the Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well… (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms), Band Geeks! (also co-writer – recipient of NEA and NAMT grants for production at Goodspeed), Disney’s Believe (created with Kirsten Childs – Disney Creative Entertainment), Pirates! Or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d (created w/Nell Benjamin – MUNY, Huntington, Goodspeed, Paper Mill), the Lortel nominated best Off-Broadway musical 2010 We The People (Theatreworks USA, Lortel Theatre), 33 Variations (Capital Rep), Floyd Collins (Signature), Happy Days (First National Tour, Bob Boyett Theatricals; Paper Mill, Goodspeed, redeveloped with Garry Marshall), Yentl (revision with Jill Sobule, Asolo Rep.), 1776 (Paper Mill), Citizens Band: The Panic Is On (Spiegeltent, NY), The Baker's Wife (revised and reworked with Joe Stein and Stephen Schwartz for Goodspeed and Paper Mill Playhouse), O. Henry’s Lovers (Goodspeed), Cam Jansen (by Larry O’Keefe & Nell Benjamin, Lambs Theatre), the National Tour of Peter Pan (Big League), The Broadway Divas tours of the U.S., Canada and Brazil and numerous television commercials. Born in Texas and raised in New York, Greenberg performed in his first Broadway show at age 12. He attended Stagedoor Manor, R.A.D.A., Stanford University and NYU Film School. He is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Pam Pariseau was most recently the Creative Development Director for Stage Entertainment (Anatasia, Rocky and Big Fish.) She has also served as Vice President of James Hammerstein Productions, a theatrical production company that works on and off-Broadway and in London’s West End, for the past decade. Broadway credits include Honeymoon in Vegas, Tracy Lett’s play Superior Donuts and The Seagull with Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Saarsgard. West End productions include Dealer’s Choice, Sunday in the Park with George and Dirty Blonde (directed by James Lapine and featuring the original Broadway cast). Off- Broadway credits include Bat Boy The Musical (music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe), Slut, The Big Bang, My Name Is Rachel Corrie (directed by Alan Rickman) and Our Town. This production of Our Town has the distinction of being the longest-running professional production of Our Town in history and was the winner of the 2009 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director. She has served as Creative Director of National Artists Management Company (producers of the Broadway production of CHICAGO), Casting Director and Literary Manager for Musical Theatre Works (a developmental non-profit dedicated to new Musicals) and Artistic Director of the Helen Hays Performing Arts Center in Nyack, New York and the Chiswick Park Theatre in Sudbury, Massachusetts. She received the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, The Boston Conservatory. Along with Co-Director Gordon Greenberg, she founded the Broadway Teaching Group, a full service arts education program for theatre educators and students.