Theater

Richard Stafford's credits include Broadway: Choreographer for In My Life at the Music Box Theatre and Dance Supervisor for CATS. He has choreographed Off-Broadway and directed and choreographed over a hundred musicals internationally (Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Denmark) and regionally at The Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under The Stars, Walnut Street Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Sacramento Music Circus, North Shore Music Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, Seattle’s Fifth Avenue Theatre and Westchester Broadway Theatre among others.

A native Australian now based in New York, David Scotchford is a choreographer passionate about creating fresh and inventive ways to experience musicality and to communicate narrative through movement.

Since 2007, David has been the Associate Choreographer/ Additional Choreographer for the stage production of Dirty Dancing, for which he has put together and choreographed for many productions (including London’s West End, 1st US Tour, Berlin, and Toronto). David isthe Associate Choreographer for the Dirty Dancing US Tour as well.

Jeffrey Schecter, better known in the theater community as “Shecky” has been a professional performer for almost 20 years. Jeff’s Broadway and National Tour credits include A Chorus Line, The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town, Beauty And The Beast, Guys And Dolls, West Side Story, Ragtime, and The Mambo Kings.

A native Texan, Liz Ramos began her training in Ballet, Tap, and Jazz at the age of six. After graduating from high school and relocating to New York City, she soon began her scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet Academy for a year and a half. Not too long after finishing her program there, she was soon cast in the European tour of Black & Blue.

Joey Pizzi is an award-winning choreographer with an extensive background working on both stage and screen. Most recently, he was choreographer for the new Disney feature film The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey and Mellisa McCartney. prior to this, Joey received both a Chita Rivera Award and World Choreography Award for his work as co-choreographer for Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns starring Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Mark Myars started dancing at the age of three and has a varied career in NYC as both a performer and choreographer.

Broadway credits include the Original Companies of Footloose, Wicked, and 9 to 5, as well as the revival of West Side Story, and Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away.

Michele Lynch is a NYC based choreographer and teacher. She choreographed Little Miss Sunshine, by James Lapine and Bill Finn, for Second Stage Theater. Also look for Michele's choreography in the Jason Robert Brown film, The Last Five Years.

As a teacher, Michele has taught master classes at NYU as well as regionally and around the world. She also taught Jazz at American Ballet Theater’s summer session. A few months ago when she taught at NYU, her students claimed her classes were like having Dance Therapy.

Lorin Latarro recently choreographed Broadway’s Waitress, the Broadway transfer of Donmar Warehouses’s Les Dangereuse Liasons with Janet McTeer and Liev Shreiber, Waiting For Godot with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stuart, and is the Associate Choreographer of Curious Incident Of The Dog in The Night-Time.

Daniel Knechtges’s Broadway credits include Sondheim on Sondheim (directed by James Lapine), Xanadu (directed by Chris Ashley, Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination), 110 in The Shade (starring Audra McDonald) and The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee (directed by James Lapine.) Dan had the blessedly rare occurrence to have all three shows running simultaneously on the Great White Way in 2007.

Chris Bailey started dancing at the age of 7 in his hometown of Leicester in the UK, and headed of to London at 17 to attend Performers Dance College one of the most respected Musical theatre colleges in the UK. His early professional work was mainly in Television but also worked in the Pop and Fashion industries. Chris’ first real theatre experience was when he joined the UK cast of Tap Dogs and toured Europe and Asia for two years.