Choreographer

Camille A. Brown

American dancer

Born 1979United States9 award nominations
Camille A. Brown
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Camille A. Brown is an American choreographer, born in 1979. Award record: 9 choreography nominations.

Biography

Camille A. Brown is an American dancer, choreographer, director, and dance educator. She is a five-time Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer who began her career as a professional dancer with Ronald K. Brown's/Evidence company in the early 2000s. In 2006 she founded her own dance company, the Camille A. Brown & Dancers, producing several dance productions, winning a Princess Grace Award and a Bessie Award.

Since 2010s Brown worked on stage musical productions, including Robert O'Hara's Bella: An American Tall Tale, Michael Arden's Once On This Island and Kenny Leon's Much Ado About Nothing, winning two Audelco Award and being nominated at the Drama Desk Awards and Lucille Lortel Awards. For her choreography direction on 2019 Choir Boy, she was nominated at the Tony Award for Best Choreography.

Brown made her directorial debut with for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (2022) for which she was nominated for the Best Direction of a Play and Best Choreography. She was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography for the Alicia Keys's musical Hell's Kitchen (2023) and Gypsy (2024). She worked on the NBC special Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018).

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Choreography awards

Contemporaries

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