professional experience

Broadway / International

Dear Mr. Gershwin

Creator, Director & Choreographer

Royal Theatre ‘10

Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Victoria BC

Music and Lyrics George and Ira Gershwin

Book by Frank Vlastnik

Say Goodnight, Gracie

2003 TONY Nominee

Best Play

Private Dance Instructor to

Frank Gorshin

Helen Hayes Theatre ‘02

Director: John Tillinger

Book By: Rupert Holmes

Band In Berlin

Assistant Director & Choreographer

Helen Hayes Theatre ‘99

[Also: GEVA Theatre and Arts at St. Ann’s]

Director & Choreo: Patricia Birch

Susan Feldman

RSVP Broadway

Associate Director &

Tap Choreographer

Winter Garden Theatre ‘97

Toronto, Canada

Director & Choreo: Patricia Birch

Video

50 Years Honoring Uta Hagen

        w/ Celeste Holm & Matthew Broderick

Creator & Director

Town Hall, NYC ‘95

Anna Karenina

1993 TONY Nominees

Actor (Featured-Musical) Gregg Edelman

Actress (Musical) Ann Crumb

Book (Musical) Peter Kellogg

Score (Musical) Music by Daniel Levine, Lyrics by Peter Kellogg

Associate Choreographer

Dance Captain / Swing

Circle In The Square Theatre ‘92

Director: Ted Mann

Choreo: Patricia Birch

Grace, The Musical

Choreographer’s Assistant

The Grace Theatre ‘90

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Music by: Cy Coleman

Choreo: Patricia Birch

The Three Musketeers

Director’s Assistant

Broadway Theatre ‘84

Director: Joe Layton

Choreo: Lester Wilson

new york theatre / regional

Ray Qualey (D)

HB Playwrights Theatre, NYC ‘10

Book by Garry Michael White

Under Fire, A New Musical (C)

2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival, NYC

Theatre at St. Clements

Director & Author: Barry Harman

NYMF 2009 Best of Fest – Theatre For The American Musical Prize

The Waiting Room Plays & The Living Room Plays (D)

HB Playwrights Foundation and Theatre, NYC ‘09/’10

Donna de Matteo, Executive Director

Fools’ Paradise, A Musical about Love and War (D/C)

Mandelstam Performing Arts Center, Miami FL ‘08

Video

Autumn Moon, A Rock Musical Thriller (D)

Wings Theatre Company, NYC ‘06

7Women 7Heavens, Portraits of Muslim Women (D)

ASMA Society, NYC ‘05

Video 1  Video 2

Orphan Train (Producer)

2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival, NYC

Carnevale! (C / Also TV commercial)

Picturesque (C)

Big Apple Circus, Lincoln Center, NYC ‘03/’04

Village Voice 2003 Voice Choices Best Dance Pick

VIDEO

Suspect (C)

NYC Fringe Festival ‘ 03

Six Dance Lesson In Six Weeks

     Private Dance Instructor for Uta Hagen w/ David Hyde Pierce

Geffen Playhouse, LA ‘01

Big River (C)

Northern Stage, VT ‘01

Camelot (C)

Berkshire Theater Festival, MA ‘00

So, You Wanna Be On Broadway? A Revusical (D/C / Co-Author)

Lambs Theatre, NYC ‘99

Video

The Strindberg Diaries (Conceived, Written & Director)

Collaborative Arts Project 21, NYC ‘98

Open Call (D/C / Co-Author)

          w/ The Real Housewives of NY: Countess LuAnn

The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC ‘98

Big River

Guys and Dolls

Camelot

Jekyll Island Music Theatre Festival, GA ‘98

Guest Director and Choreographer

A Day In Hollywood and A Night In The Ukraine

George M!

Keene Summer Theatre, NH ‘98

Guest Director and Choreographer

Video

Oklahoma! (D/C)

North Carolina Theatre, NC ‘95

Man Of La Mancha (C)

The Rothschilds (C)

Bristol Riverside Theatre, PA ‘93

Pippin (D)

SUNY Purchase, Performing Arts Center, NY ‘90

Kiss Me Kate (D)

Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, FL ‘90

Midsummer Nights (C)

Musical Theatre Works, NYC ‘89

Wonderful Town (C)

Equity Library Theatre, NYC ‘89

A Singular Sensation, Tribute to Michael Bennett

(Co- Conceived, Directed and Choreographed)

St. Louis MO. Good Samaritan Project ‘86

Video

Female Parts, three plays by Dario Fo  (ASM)

     w/ Estelle Parsons

Noah’s Flood by Benjamin Britten (Puppeteer)

w/ Cleavon Little

PepsiCo SummerFare ‘83

Film / Television

The “Mr. Abbott” Award

For Lifetime Achievement in the

American Theatre

      Video Tribute to George Abbott

Conceived, Directed & Produced

w/ Larry Carpenter

For education and promotional purposes

through the SDC Foundation

2011 “Mr. Abbott” Award

Presented to George C. Wolfe

Ceremony produced Daryl Roth & Margo Lion

Video

2010 NYC Columbus Day Parade

            w/ Grand Marshal Maria Bartiromo

Choreographer

Studio Festi ‘10

The Columbus Citizens Foundation,

Televised Live on: NBC and RAI TV Italy

The Stepford Wives

     w/ Nicole Kidman & Bette Midler

Special Effects

Movement Consultant

Paramount Pictures ‘03

Producer: Scott Rudin / Director: Frank Oz

Orpheus Descending

      w/ Keith Lockhart, Conductor

Choreographer

PBS Great Performances ‘03

Evening At Pops

w/ The Boston Pops

Video

This Is The Moment

      w/ Donny Osmond &

      Vanessa Williams

Associate Choreographer

PBS Great Performances ‘00

Choreo: Patricia Birch

The First Wives Club

      w/ Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn,

      Diane Keaton

Assistant Choreographer

Paramount Pictures ‘96

Producer: Scott Rudin

Choreo: Patricia Birch

Natalie Coles’  X-mass Special

Assistant To Director

PBS Great Performances ‘94

Director: Patricia Birch

The Cowboy Way

      w/ Woody Harrelson,

      Kiefer Sutherland

Assistant Choreographer

Universal Pictures ‘93

Director: Greg Champion

Choreo: Patricia Birch

The Odyssey w/ Armand Assante

Gypsy w/ Bette Midler

Moby Dick w/ Patrick Stewart

Production Department

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Entertainment

Selected Readings

Sandstorm (D)

Industry Only Reading, NYC ‘09

Book and Lyrics: Garry Michael White / Music: Howard Pfeiffer

Villa Diodati (D)

The White Rose (D)

The York Theatre – Reading Series, NYC ‘08

James Morgan, Artistic Director

Assistant Director AND/or Choreographer [partial list]

Exactly Like You

            w/ Michael McGrath & Barbara Walsh

Goodspeed At Chester, York Theatre ‘99

Music by: Cy Coleman / Book by: A. E. Hotchner

Lyrics by: Coleman & Hotchner

Director & Choreo: Patricia Birch

Rhythm On The Rainbow

The Hot Harmonies of the Boswell Sisters!

            w/ Dee Hoty, Nancy Opel,  Sally Ann Mayes

Rockefeller Center’s Rainbow & Stars ‘98

Director: Stuart Ross

I Sent A Letter To My Love

Primary Stages and North Shore Music Theatre ‘95

Book by Jeffrey Sweet, Music by Melissa Manchester

Director: Patricia Birch

Rockaby & The Beckett Trilogy

      w/ Billie Whitelaw & Alvin Epstein

Harold Clurman Theatre ‘84

Director: Alan Schneider

Candide

            w/ Marilyn Caskey & Paul Binotto

Arena Stage ‘84

Director: Douglas C. Wager

Tropicana

Musical Theatre Works ‘83

Director and Book: George Abbott

Choreo: Donald Saddler

Related Experience

“Shall We Dance” Panel Speaker

Musical Theatre Educators of America ‘12

2011 New York University

“Putting It Together” Guest Speaker (Choreography)

George and Joy Abbott Center for Musical Theatre ‘11

Temple University

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Produce celebrity galas for Wynton Marsalis, President Bill Clinton, James Taylor, Philip Glass, Sam Waterston

JSC Entertainment

’98 - Present

Owner and Operator

Musical Theatre Evaluator

National Music Theatre Network ‘06

Ballet Instructor

Princeton Ballet ‘04

Theatre Educator, Advanced Musical Theatre Workshops, Guest Lecturer, Master Classes

Shubert Foundation’s Broadway Inside,

Emerson College, Learning on Location,

Vermont Stage, Singers On Stage,

Theatre Arts Center,

Tokyo, Japan’s Broadway Dance Center

Award Winner Photographer

International Year of the Child

Photo Contest

United Nations

Publications

“Pocket-Sized on West 47th Street - A Theatrical 348 Square Feet”

The New York Times

By Constance Rosenblum

Published: April 21, 2010

“Kay, Oh!”

(feature article on Director and Choreographer, Kay Cole)

TheatreMania Feature

By Jonathan Cerullo

Published: June 2, 2011

“For A Child’s Smile, Months of Sweat”

The Big Apple Circus goes through a painstaking process to create wonder.

Boston Sunday Globe

By Richard Dyer

Published April 3, 2005

“Bringing a Broadway Sensibility to the Big Apple Circus”

SPECTACLE

Journal of Circus Arts

By Ernest Albrecht

WINTER 2004

“From Broadway to the Big Top!”

Ringside Report

Big Apple Circus

Education

Emerson College

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing ‘82

Minors in Dance, English & Photography

Dean’s List

Boston, MA

Scholarships

Commedia Dell’ Arte, Florence, Italy

School Of American Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, NY

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