KATE SWAN

Kate Swan is pleased to return to Group Theatre Too's Choreographer's Canvas. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in theatre, Kate worked as a performer in Chicago briefly before being cast in the European tour of West Side Story with stars from Jerome Robbins' Broadway and A Chorus Line: The Movie. Immediately after moving to New York, Kate was cast in the original Broadway company of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. She later served as dance captain for the national tour and then the Broadway company. She eventually became the Associate Choreographer for all productions worldwide, mounting and/or maintaining the Broadway, US third national tour, UK tour, Korea, Brazil, and Mexico City 10th Anniversary Revival companies. Kate has kept up a healthy and varied choreography career since college, where she directed and produced Graffiti Dancers, a versatile concert dance company. Her first co-choreography credit after graduating was the Chicago World Premiere of Schoolhouse Rock Live!, which ran Off-Broadway shortly thereafter. Kate works regularly at Wings Theatre in Manhattan�s west Village and at the Fireside Theatre in Wisconsin. Her other regional work includes the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Surflight Theatre, Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, and Purdue University Theatre. She serves on the board of Skyline Theatre Company in New Jersey. Kate is also an avid teacher of theatre dance; her classes and seminars are based largely on the training she received as a teenager at the American Dancemachine, emphasizing the preservation of popular and theatre dance styles of the late 19th and 20th centuries. She is a constant student of all types of theatre dance styles and choreographers, past and present, so that she can create good, story-telling theatre dance for the future. Kate resides in New Jersey with her director/choreographer husband David Swan (www.davidswanonline.com), their daughter, and a cat. Visit www.KateSwan.net for more information.