This was an in-person event that occurred in June 2023. This was recorded and you can find the video linked here.
Join us in The Choreographers Studio with Christopher Gattelli and Maria Torres. Maria will be interviewing Christopher about his career, sharing highlights of his work, with a particular focus on the difference between choreographing musical numbers for stage versus screen.
General admission tickets are $10 and tickets for SDC Members and Associate Members are $5. Space is limited!
ASL interpreters will be provided, let us know if you will be using this resource by answering the interpretation question when you buy your ticket.
This event will not be livestreamed but a recording will be made available.
This event will take place at Sunlight Studios: 321 W 44th Street Suite 202, New York City, NY 10036
Bios:
Christopher Gattelli is an acclaimed and multi-award-winning director/choreographer receiving the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for his choreography of NEWSIES. He is also a Joe A. Callaway award-winner for his work on ALTAR BOYZ, recognizing excellence in directing and choreography in New York City; and a three-time Lortel winner for DOGFIGHT (2005), ALTAR BOYZ (2005), and BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL (2001), recognizing excellence in off-Broadway.
His Broadway credits include MY FAIR LADY (Tony, OCC nomination),SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nomination), THE KING AND I (Tony, OCC nomination), SOUTH PACIFIC (Tony, OCC nomination), THE CHER SHOW (OCC nomination), SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, WAR PAINT, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, CASA VALENTINA, AMAZING GRACE, GODSPELL, THE RITZ, MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME, 13, and HIGH FIDELITY. In addition, he was the choreographer for CAMELOT at Lincoln Center, a benefit with Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Off-Broadway credits include: DOGFIGHT (Lortel Award), ALTAR BOYZ (Lortel Award, Callaway Award, Drama Desk Nom.), BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL (Lortel Award), and tick,tick…BOOM! 10 MILLION MILES; and ADRIFT IN MACAO. West End: THE KING AND I (Olivier nomination), SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, SOUTH PACIFIC, SILENCE THE MUSICAL – off West End. As director/choreographer, Off-Broadway credits include: SILENCE: THE MUSICAL (Time – Top 10 of 2012), IN YOUR ARMS (The Old Globe), and world premiere of JIM HENSON’S EMMET OTTER (Goodspeed Opera House).
Film/TV: Emmy nominated for SCHMIGADOON, MIRACLE WORKERS. HAIL, CAESAR!, ISN’T IT ROMANTIC?.
Maria Torres’ extensive career as director, choreographer, instructor, and Producer began as a critically acclaimed performer, contributing choreography while performing in the film DANCE WITH ME, with the six-time Tony-nominated Broadway musical SWING! Choreographer of Disney’s GOLDEN MICKEY, BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, MAN OF LA MANCHA, Torres was nominated for a 2018 Ovation Award for Best Choreography for Luis Valdez’s ZOOT SUIT, is a Lucille Lortel & Carbonell nominee of FOUR GUYS NAMED JOSE” THE DONKEY SHOW AND CELIA, the musical based on the life of the late Cuban singer Celia Cruz. Torres received accolades as Associate Choreographer for the Broadway & Touring productions of ON YOUR FEET, the Oscar-nominated film ENCHANTED, the musical film IDLE WILD, the showcase for the Tony Award-winning IN THE HEIGHTS, and Choreographer on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE in the US and Canada. Choreography Medal Award for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, Choreographer for Amazon’s “The Tick”, CBS “EVIL”, AMC TURN Washington Spies Torres also co-conceived, choreographed, and directed the MAGIC OF SALSA KINGDOM and the Off-Broadway hit LATIN HEAT. Recently, she directed and choreographed the new musical HAVANA MUSIC HALL, SOL OF EL BARRIO, Jacob’s Pillow and served as dance consultant for SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL on Broadway. Torres is Board executive and Artist’s Associate at The Rosetta LeNoire’s Amas Musical Theatre, Board member of EnGarde Arts Trustee of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), a proud executive board member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and the League of Professional Theatre Women. Her life is documented in the Jerome Robbins’ Dance Oral History Project at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She is now artist-in-residence with the Performing at Library @Lincoln Center for the “Legacy Project”.
