Byron Easley

Byron Easley

Choreographer, The Three Musketeers

In three seasons at OSF: UniSon, The Wiz, The Comedy of Errors. Other theatres: Broadway: Camelot (Lincoln Center Theater), Slave Play. Off-Broadway: Des Moines (Theatre for a New Audience), Bed Wetter (Atlantic Theater), Richard III (New York Shakespeare Festival), Slave Play (New York Theater Workshop), X: Or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation of Islam, The Bubbly Black Girl (City Center Encores!), The Tempest (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Langston in Harlem (Urban Stages). Regional: Choir Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre), Gun & Powder (Signature), Matilda (Olney Theatre), Twelfth Night (Yale Rep), Five Guys Named Moe (Arena Stage); Sophisticated Ladies, Jelly’s Last Jam (Alliance Theatre). Awards: Antonyo nomination (Slave Play), Lucille Lortel nomination (X: Or Betty Shabazz vs The Nation of Islam), Helen Hayes nomination (Matilda and Five Guys Named Moe); Society of Director’s and Choreographer’s Joe A. Callaway Award; Audelco Award for excellence in choreography (Langston in Harlem); Suzi Bass Award for choreography (Sophisticated Ladies and Jelly’s Last Jam). Teaching: Associate arts professor at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts (head of dance for musical theatre training, New Studio on Broadway).