ANN REINKING
Choreographer

1997 Tony Award, Best Choreography for Chicago, as well as Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Astaire and NY Drama Critics awards. Other credits include: director, co-choreographer for Fosse (1998 Tony Award for Best Musical), Tony nomination for Best Director in a Musical, Fosse. Nominations for Tonys in four different categories: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Choreographer, Best Director (won the Tony for Best Choreography), as well as Tony nominations for her leading performances in Dancin’ and Goodtime Charlie, won the Lawrence Olivier Award for Fosse, recipient of Theatre World, Clarence Derwent and Outer Critics Circle awards for her work as Maggie in Over Here!. Film credits: Movie Movie, All That Jazz, Annie, Micki and Maude. Recent choreography: Sondheim Suite for Pacific Northwest Ballet, Suite Kander for Missouri State Ballet, Ritmo & Ruido for Ballet Hispanico, Legends for Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, The Threepenny Opera for Williamstown Theatre Festival, Nilsson/Schmillson for Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theatre, “Bye Bye Birdie” for ABC-TV, national tour of the revival of Applause. Co-choreographed The White City and Light In The Dark/Thodos Dance Chicago. Choreographed The Harrison Tribute/American Ballet Theatre. She is the recipient of the National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Choreography, Fosse 2001, the Drama League Award for Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre 1999, Musical Hall of Fame Award 1999, Dance Library of Israel Award 1998, Distinguished Artist Award 1998, School of American Ballet Artistic Achievement Award 1997, National Art Club Award for Service to the Arts 1995, Governor’s Award—Ambassador of the Arts for the State of Florida 1994, Honorary Doctorate from Florida State University, Dance Magazine Award, Ford Foundation Scholarship for the San Francisco Ballet Company and the Robert Joffrey Scholarship with the Joffrey Ballet.