John Manzari is an Ovation Award- and Helen Hayes Award-nominated dancer, singer, choreographer and teacher.

Stage credits include the Broadway revival of Funny Girl, MUNY's Anything Goes, Encores! The Tap Dance Kid, Off Broadway’s Maurice Hines: Tappin’ Thru Life, Caleb Teicher’s Bzzz, Bessie Award-winning Chasing Magic, 42nd Street, The Wiz is 40: A Celebration in Dance and Music and Sophisticated Ladies. 

Television credits include Law & Order SVU; the PBS specials Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future, Rooted, The Kennedy Center at 50 and Michael Feinstein at the Rainbow Room; Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; Good Morning America; The View; The Jerry Lewis Telethon and So You Think You Can Dance. 

Concerts include one-man shows Recenter and The First Set; guest appearances with symphony orchestras across North America, including those of New York, Edmonton, Seattle, Houston and Washington, DC (National and American), and with bands such as The Hot Sardines; Fall for Dance; Canada’s Fall for Dance North; Amelia Island Dance Festival and Gold Coast Dance Festival. Manzari can be seen in the documentary about his mentor, Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back. Other film credits include the award-winning short films To: Everything I Love, Slip and Leonard Soloway’s Broadway. His short film Ghost was an official selection for Fall for Dance North's 8-Count Short Film Festival.