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Chase Brock
Director

Chase Brock is delighted to return to the Theatre Arts Program after directing last season’s production of Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein. Called “prolific” in The New Yorker and “a showman with an eye to a wide audience” in The New York Times, Brock is known for the choreography of Be More Chill (Broadway, West End, Japan), SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark (Broadway), Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (US, Germany, Austria and Japan), William Inge’s Picnic (Broadway), the original Japanese musical The Ghost and The Lady, Roméo et Juliette (The Metropolitan Opera), Dance on Broadway (Nintendo Wii), “Dash & Lily” (Netflix) and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO). Recently, Brock served as onscreen director of Fiddler on the Roof for Kristin Bell’s “Encore!” (Disney+), directed a pair of concerts for the 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists series starring Ana Gasteyer, Mo Rocca and Chuck Cooper, and directed a trio of productions for The State Theatre of North Carolina (Cabaret, The Music Manand a dance theater adaptation of The Nutcracker). Brock is currently developing Danielle Durbin and Courtney Tesh’s play Widowed, Marisa Michelson and Joshua Cohen’s musical Tamar of the River, and Eric Dietz’s musicals Luna and the Gold River Docks, Pole and Delirious Berlin and screenplay Starlite. Brock has commissioned 10 original scores and directed and choreographed 35 works of dance theater for his company The Chase Brock Experience, including the evening-length works American Sadness, Big Shot, The Four Seasons, The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes and Come Home, which have been seen off-Broadway and on tour from North Carolina to Maine, and is the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary feature Chasing Dance. Brock has taught, lectured or choreographed at Yale School of Drama, Barnard College at Columbia University and The Juilliard School, and was a Fellow at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts and a Camper at Spark Camp at Harvard. Brock’s teacher and mentor was the late, great Ann Reinking, and he made his Broadway debut at 16 in Susan Stroman’s revival of The Music Man. 

Chase Brock
Director

Chase Brock is delighted to return to the Theatre Arts Program after directing last season’s production of Torch Song by Harvey Fierstein. Called “prolific” in The New Yorker and “a showman with an eye to a wide audience” in The New York Times, Brock is known for the choreography of Be More Chill (Broadway, West End, Japan), SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark (Broadway), Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (US, Germany, Austria and Japan), William Inge’s Picnic (Broadway), the original Japanese musical The Ghost and The Lady, Roméo et Juliette (The Metropolitan Opera), Dance on Broadway (Nintendo Wii), “Dash & Lily” (Netflix) and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO). Recently, Brock served as onscreen director of Fiddler on the Roof for Kristin Bell’s “Encore!” (Disney+), directed a pair of concerts for the 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists series starring Ana Gasteyer, Mo Rocca and Chuck Cooper, and directed a trio of productions for The State Theatre of North Carolina (Cabaret, The Music Manand a dance theater adaptation of The Nutcracker). Brock is currently developing Danielle Durbin and Courtney Tesh’s play Widowed, Marisa Michelson and Joshua Cohen’s musical Tamar of the River, and Eric Dietz’s musicals Luna and the Gold River Docks, Pole and Delirious Berlin and screenplay Starlite. Brock has commissioned 10 original scores and directed and choreographed 35 works of dance theater for his company The Chase Brock Experience, including the evening-length works American Sadness, Big Shot, The Four Seasons, The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes and Come Home, which have been seen off-Broadway and on tour from North Carolina to Maine, and is the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary feature Chasing Dance. Brock has taught, lectured or choreographed at Yale School of Drama, Barnard College at Columbia University and The Juilliard School, and was a Fellow at NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts and a Camper at Spark Camp at Harvard. Brock’s teacher and mentor was the late, great Ann Reinking, and he made his Broadway debut at 16 in Susan Stroman’s revival of The Music Man.