Tanya Birl

Tanya Birl

Choreographer, How I Learned What I Learned

In one season at OSF: Choreographer, Peter and the Starcatcher. Other theatres: New York: Choreographer, The Comedy of Errors (Classic Stage Company); As You Like It (Guthrie Theater); F**king A (Signature Theatre); movement director, Twelfth Night (The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit); Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (select episodes); associate choreographer, Chaplin: The Musical (Ethel Barrymore Theatre). Performance: Broadway: The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Skin, The Most Happy Fella, Anyone Can Whistle, Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club Parade (also assistant choreographer), The Wiz (City Center Encores!); On the Town (Lyric Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Rodgers Theatre); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Al Hirschfeld Theatre); Memphis (Shubert Theatre); Finian’s Rainbow (St. James Theatre); A Christmas Story (The Theater at Madison Square Garden, others). Regional: Bandstand (The Paper Mill Playhouse). Tours: West Side Story (50th anniversary world tour, West End); The Lion King (first national tour). Film/TV: The Miraculous Year (HBO), The 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017 Tony Awards. @sohumanity | sohumanity.com