is currently represented on Broadway with Hairspray, and Imaginary Friends and the upcoming Little Shop of Horrors.  He began his choreographic career as associate choreographer to Michael Bennett on Scandal and Jerome Robbins on Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Emmy®-nominated for choreographing "The Drew Carey Show," his memorable film work includes In & Out, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Scent of a Woman. He also choreographed The Full Monty (Tony®, Drama Desk and Astaire Award nominations), the Broadway revivals of The Rocky Horror Show (Drama Desk nomination) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Hedwig and the Angry Inch (on stage and film); the national tour of Jekyll & Hyde; and Paper Mill Playhouse's critically acclaimed Follies, featuring Ann Miller. He conceives, directs and choreographs Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

was renowned as a choreographer of ballets created for the New York City Ballet and as director/choreographer for theatre, films and television. He began on Broadway as a chorus dancer, before joining the corps de ballet of the American Ballet Theatre where he danced principal roles in the works of Fokine, Tudor, Massine, Balanchine, Lichine and de Mille. Fancy Free, his first ballet for ABT in 1944, was a sensation. By 1949 he was creating for the theatre and simultaneously for the New York City Ballet, becoming Associate Artistic Director to George Balanchine. He received four Tony® Awards, the most recent for Jerome Robbins' Broadway, which won Best Musical of 1989 and Best Director. His choreography for the film West Side Story won him two Academy Awards. After the triumph of Fiddler on the Roof in 1964, Robbins dedicated himself to creating for the New York City Ballet, where in 1983 he shared the position of Ballet Master-in-Chief with Peter Martins. He created more than 50 ballets including Afternoon of a Faun (1953), The Concert (1956), Dances at a Gathering (1969) and Glass Pieces (1983), which are in repertoires of major dance companies throughout the world. He won five Donaldson Awards, an Emmy®, the Screen Directors' Guild Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient, a French Chevalier des Arts, an honorary member of The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was awarded a National Medal of Art by President Reagan. Mr. Robbins died on July 29, 1998.

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