Among his credits are The King and I for The Muny in St. Louis, MO,
Camelot and 1776 for Goodspeed Musicals, and Sweet Charity for
Barrington Stage Company. He also choreographed Sunday in the Park
with George for The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, as well as Urinetown,
the Musical" and Kiss Me Kate in which he received Kevin Kline Award
choreographed for many shows, including EFX at the MGM Grand, Siegfried and Roy,
at The Mirage, and Tournament of Kings. He was artistic director and cofounder of The
New Works Project, a contemporary dance company in Las Vegas. A member of the
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, he has choreographed numerous
musicals for The Monomoy Theatre and New London Barn Playhouse in New
Hampshire. He is the Director of Dance for the Theater Division, as well as part of the
adjunct dance faculty at The Hartt School, University of Hartford.
He moved back to Connecticut to focus on teaching at the Greater
Hartford Academy of the Arts and at the Hartt School, where he is on the
vocal faculty. He has music directed around the country and is in constant
demand as an accompanist and coach. He has taught at the New School
for Drama and the Hartford Conservatory, and has accompanied for
LuPone, among others. He has had students in the Broadway casts of Hairspray,
Wicked, West Side Story, Memphis, and Beauty and the Beast, and countless national
tours, including Rent, Dreamgirls, and Legally Blond. He is thrilled to be back at
Monomoy, after music directing Once Upon a Mattress, Man of La Mancha, Dames at
Sea, 1776 and Cabaret.
Biloxi Blues, Twelfth Night, I Hate Hamlet, The Music Man and many
others. New York Theatre: The Man Who Came to Dinner at Peccadillo
Theatre; The Dishwashers at 59E59; The Oedipus Cycle and She Stoops to
Conquer at The Pearl Theatre. Favorite regional projects include Venus in
Fur and Bug (Rep. Theatre of St. Louis), the title role in Oedipus the King
(Cincinnati Playhouse), Philadelphia Story and A View from the Bridge (Pioneer
Theatre), Two Rooms (Chester Theatre Company), Caesar and Cleopatra (Playmakers
Rep), Salome (Two Rivers Theatre). Television: "As The World Turns"
currently serves as Associate Artistic Director of Hartford Stage and has
directed world premieres and revivals at several of the nation's major
regional theatres. He is a proud former student of Alan Rust, having
graduated in the first class of the Hartt School, Theatre Division, some 13
years ago.