Camille A. Brown

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CAMILLE A. BROWN is a prolific Black female director / choreographer, who has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Award, Bessie Award, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, United States Artists Award, two Audelco Awards, five Princess Grace Awards, and a New York City Center Award. She has received a Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, three Lortel nominations and an Obie award for her work in theater. She is an Emerson Collective fellow, a TED fellow and the recipient of a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship. Brown is the 2021 Distinguished Artist, presented by The International Society for the Performing Arts.

Broadway and off-Broadway credits include: Choir Boy, Once On This Island, Toni Stone, A Streetcar Named Desire, Much Ado About Nothing, for colored girls… Film/Television: Academy Award-winning Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Emmy Award-winning “Jesus Christ Superstar Live.” Ms. Brown choreographed the critically acclaimed Porgy and Bess for The Metropolitan Opera and this September became the first Black woman director for the main stage at the MET with Fire Shut Up In My Bones. Brown is the founder and Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers.

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Camille A. Brown Awards and Nominations

Drama League Awards - 2022 - Outstanding Direction of a Play

Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2022 - Outstanding Choreography

Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2022 - Outstanding Director of a Play

Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Choreography

Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Direction of a Play

Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Drama Desk Awards - 2020 - Outstanding Choreography

Camille A. Brown, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Tony Awards - 2019 - Best Choreography

Camille A. Brown, Choir Boy

BroadwayWorld Awards - 2018 - Best Choreography

Camille A. Brown, Once on this Island

The Lortels - 2018 - Outstanding Choreographer

Camille A. Brown, Bella: An American Tall Tale

The Lortels - 2015 - Outstanding Choreographer

Camille A. Brown, The Fortress of Solitude

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Masterwork Arts Grants $10,000 Premier Award To Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Masterwork Arts Grants $10,000 Premier Award to Camille A. Brown & Dancers for the development of their new work, I AM.

Video: Get A First Look At Lyric Opera of Chicago's Production of Blanchard's CHAMPION

The music of Terence Blanchard has returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago with his first opera: Champion, an 'opera in jazz' inspired by the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who threw a fatal punch in the boxing ring in 1962. Get a first look at the production in an all-new trailer!

Photos: First Look at CHAMPION at Lyric Opera of Chicago

The music of Terence Blanchard has returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago with his first opera: Champion, an 'opera in jazz' inspired by the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who threw a fatal punch in the boxing ring in 1962. Check out production photos here!

Harlem Stage Reveals 2024 Cohort of WaterWorks Emerging Artists

Harlem Stage has announced the five artists selected as 2024 WaterWorks Emerging Artists. Learn more about the artists here!

YoungArts Announces 2024 Presidential Scholars In The Arts Nominees

YoungArts has announced the nominees for the 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students who exemplify artistic and academic excellence.

Video: Associate Choreographer Christopher Jackson Explores The Dance in Lyric Opera's CHAMPION

In an all-new video, Associate Choreographer Christopher Jackson discusses the gumbo of dance found in Terence Blanchard's CHAMPION.

Broadway's HELL'S KITCHEN Establishes Comprehensive Fellowship Program

Alicia Keys and Broadway’s HELL’S KITCHEN have established a comprehensive Fellowship Program. Learn more about the program here!

Harlem Stage Reveals Lineup For 2024 Season

Harlem Stage begins 2024 with an array of programming that continues the indispensable institution’s 40th anniversary season. Learn more about the full season lineup here!

Collage Dance Performs Kevin Thomas's Ballet RISE Plus World Premiere By Hope Boykin, February 3- 4

COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE performs 'RISE' at The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. Featuring Kevin Thomas's Ballet Rise set to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final public speech, a world premiere by Hope Boykin, Camille A. Brown's New Second Line, and Amy Hall Garner's Saint Glory. February 3-4, 2024.

VIDEO: Director James Robinson on Blanchard's CHAMPION

Learn about the world champion boxer and see how his story inspired Grammy Award-winning composer Terence Blanchard's first foray into opera in this interview with director James Robinson in an all-new video.

Interview: Ever Busy Director/Choreographer Camille A. Brown On Creating INK & More

Debbie Allen presents Camille A. Brown & Dancers: ink January 12th and 13th at The Wallis. ink “explores self-empowerment, Black love, brotherhood, and resilience that examines aspects of Black life that are too often appropriated, rewritten, or silenced.” I had the chance to chat with director/choreographer Camille A. Brown before her flying from New York to her Wallis rehearsals.

Broadway Buying Guide: December 18, 2023

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, December 18, 2023.

What You Need to Know About Blanchard and Cristofer's CHAMPION at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the Lyric premiere of Grammy Award-winning composer Terence Blanchard and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning librettist Michael Cristofer’s knockout opera Champion. Learn more about this opera!

Broadway Buying Guide: December 11, 2023

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, December 11, 2023.

Wake Up With BroadwayWorld December 11th, 2023

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 11, 2023 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Harlem Stage Adds Urban Bush Women's HAINT BLUE To Star-Studded Anniversary E-Moves Series

Urban Bush Women's 'Haint Blue' joins Harlem Stage's star-studded 40th anniversary E-Moves dance series, celebrating groundbreaking dance theater and a vital Harlem-based performing arts institution.

Alicia Keys' HELL'S KITCHEN Will Transfer to Broadway

HELL’S KITCHEN, conceived by the innovative mind of 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, will make its Broadway premiere this spring! We have all the details on the show's transfer!

National Dance Institute Appoints Tiffany Rea-Fisher as The Helen Stambler Neuberger Artist-in-Residence for the 2024 Season

Following her acclaimed choreography for the Public Theater’s summer 2023 production of The Tempest at The Delacorte Theater, the multi-talented artist Tiffany Rea-Fisher has been chosen as National Dance Institute’s (NDI) Artist-in-Residence for 2024.

22 Theater Books for Your Winter 2024 Reading List

The weather outside might still be frightful for a while, but what better time to stay in and snuggle up with a great Broadway read? Check out our complete Winter 2024 reading list!

Best Broadway Shows in 2024; What's Coming!

Check out a full list of what's to come on Broadway in 2024 and be sure to check back as more engagements are added to the list!

Camille A. Brown FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Camille A. Brown has been nominated for several awards throughout her career. These include Outstanding Direction of a Play at the Drama League Awards and Outstanding Choreography at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf." She was also nominated for Best Choreography and Best Direction of a Play at the Tony Awards for the same production. Additionally, Brown received nominations for Outstanding Choreography at the Drama Desk Awards for both "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" and "Choir Boy." She won the Choreography Award at the Obie Awards and was nominated for Best Choreography at the BroadwayWorld Awards for "Once on this Island." Furthermore, she received The LaDuca Award for Outstanding Choreography at the Drama Desk Awards for "Once on this Island." Brown was also recognized as Outstanding Choreographer at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Once on this Island," and as Outstanding Choreographer at The Lortels for both "Bella: An American Tall Tale" and "The Fortress of Solitude."

Camille A. Brown has won several awards for her choreography in the Broadway show "Once on this Island." She has received the Choreography Award at the Obie Awards and the Best Choreography award at the BroadwayWorld Awards.

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