Camille A. Brown

Camille A. Brown is a four-time Tony Award–nominated director and choreographer celebrated for her bold, socially conscious storytelling and dynamic movement language. A Hero Fellow, Emerson Fellow, TED Fellow, and one of the Kennedy Center’s Next 50, she is also the founder and artistic director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers.

A recipient of the Chita Rivera Award and the Obie Award, she has also earned nominations for the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel Awards.

On Broadway, Brown has directed and choreographed for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (Tony nominations for Direction of a Play and Choreography), Choir Boy (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Once on This Island (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Lortel nominations), and A Streetcar Named Desire.

At the Metropolitan Opera, she co-directed and choreographed Fire Shut Up in My Bones and choreographed Porgy and Bess, and Champion. Her film and television credits include Harlem (Amazon), the Oscar-winning Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix), the Emmy-winning Jesus Christ Superstar Live (NBC), and NYE in Rockefeller Center (NBC), among others.

Brown’s numerous honors include ISPA’s Distinguished Artist Award, The Dance Magazine Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Artist Award, the Princess Grace Statue Award, the Jacob’s Pillow Award, and fellowships with the Emerson Collective, HarlemStage, New York City Center, and USA Artists (Jay Franke & David Herro Fellows).