Camille A. Brown is an African American choreographer and director, a multiple Tony nominee, who works in both ancestral and contemporary African American traditions. She is at the forefront of many productions that are redefining what it is to be African American today.
Camille A. Brown in New York City
Harlem Stage, Manhattanville, West Harlem
Camille A. Brown, the multiple Tony nominated African American choreographer and director, curates a night of dance on the theme of “Black Joy” with Chloe Davis, Juel D. Lane, Mayte Natalio, Rickey Tripp, Maleek Washington. Her own company Camille A. Brown & Dancers performing “TURF,” the finale of the 40th Anniversary Season at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan; on Friday-Saturday, June 14-15, 2024 at 7:30pm. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸
We were recently at Harlem Stage and witnessed first hand the Black Joy in the house. We were struck by the welcoming embrace of the people and the place, the quality of the production, and the diversity of the audience. Everybody goes to Harlem Stage, and if you haven’t been, you are missing out.
Camille A. Brown
When she directed the Broadway revival of “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” Camille A. Brown became the first Black woman to direct and choreograph a Broadway play since Katherine Dunham in 1955. The production received seven Tony Award nominations including Best Direction of a Play and Best Choreography for Brown. The New York Times proclaimed the production “triumphant.”
The same season at The Metropolitan Opera, Camille became the first Black artist to direct a mainstage production, co-directing alongside James Robinson on Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021), which she also choreographed (Bessie Nomination for Outstanding Choreographer). Fire was triumphantly brought back to the MET again this 2024 spring season.
Camille also choreographed Porgy & Bess in 2020 and Terence Blanchard’s Champion, which premiered April 2023, both at The MET Opera. She continues to be the artistic director and choreographer of her own company, Camille A Brown and Dancers, which performs all over the world and this summer will premiere a new piece, the highly anticipated “I AM” at Jacobs Pillow.
Most recently, Brown won the Chita Rivera Award for choreography and earned her fourth Tony Award nomination for her choreography of the Broadway hit, Hell’s Kitchen, the new Alicia Keys musical which has garnered 13 Tony Award nominations.
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