Travis Wall
for his outstanding choreography on The Wrong Man (MCC Theater)
Travis Wall is the recipient of 10 consecutive Emmy nominations, which include 2 Emmy wins, for his work on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance. Wall was also the runner-up in the show’s 2nd Season. Additional television work includes Dancing with the Stars, The Academy Awards, The MTV VMAs, The American Music Awards, and Pretty Little Liars. Wall also produced and starred in Oxygen’s docu-reality series All The Right Moves profiling his dance company Shaping Sound.
Travis has collaborated with artists including Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Lopez, Sara Bareilles, Adele, Demi Lovato, Maddie Ziegler, and Florence Welsh. His work in film can be seen in Step Up: Revolution, The Wedding Ringer, and Hulu’s The Binge.
Travis made his Broadway performance debut in the 2001 revival of The Music Man. His New York work includes the Off-Broadway production of BARE: A Rock Musical and The Wrong Man at MCC.
Danya Taymor
for her outstanding direction on Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons)
Danya Taymor is an Obie-award winning New York based director, writer and translator. Recent direction includes Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lortel Outstanding Play) Korde Arrington Tuttle’s Graveyard Shift (Goodman Theater), Jeremy O. Harris’ Daddy (Almeida London + New Group/Vineyard), Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over (Lincoln Center + Steppenwolf, Lortel Outstanding Play), Danai Gurira’s Familiar (Steppenwolf), Martyna Majok’s Queens (Lincoln Center Theater), Justin Kuritzkes’ The Sensuality Party (The New Group), Susan Soon-He Stanton’s Cygnus (Women’s Project), Brian Watkins’ Wyoming (Lesser America) and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer (The Flea), and Sarah Gancher’s The Place We Built (The Flea). Translations include Alejandro Ricaño’s We Are Getting Better at Saying Goodbye, Luis Enrique Guitierrez Ortiz Monasterio’s I Hate Fucking Mexicans, and Ettore Scola’s Working on a Special Day.
Her production Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over was filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Other awards and fellowships include the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity from Lincoln Center, Time Warner Directing Fellowship at Women’s Project, 2050 fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier Directing Fellowship; Gates Foundation Grant, Rough Draft Residency at the Drama League and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
This season’s finalists for direction were Knud Adams on The Headlands (Lincoln Center Theater) and Les Waters on The Thin Place (Playwrights Horizons).