Camille A. Brown & Dancers | Coming to Festival 2024
In the Ted Shawn Theatre — July 31-August 4, 2024
Recipient of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award in 2016, four-time Tony Award-nominated choreographer and director Camille A. Brown continues her meteoric rise creating new work on stage, TV, and film as the founder of Camille A. Brown & Dancers.
Brown is a “prodigious” ("VOGUE") Bessie, Obie, and Princess Grace Award-winning choreographer and director. She made history as the first Black director at the Metropolitan Opera to direct a mainstage production when she co-directed "Fire Shut Up In My Bones" (2021). With the Broadway revival of for colored girls… in 2022 (which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Direction of a Play), she became the first Black woman to direct and choreograph a Broadway play since Katherine Dunham in 1955.
Following her work earlier this spring as the choreographer of the new Alicia Keys musical "Hell’s Kitchen"—which led to a Tony Award nomination for Best Choreography (her third Tony nomination in this category)—Brown returns to the roots of her own dance company, deepening her exploration of Black joy in the world premiere of "I AM" in the Ted Shawn Theatre, developed in part through a Pillow Lab residency in 2023.
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