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Co-commission with New York City Center

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence Robbie Fairchild shares an in-process presentation of his new dance-theater work, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, offering audiences a sneak peek ahead of its premiere at New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival.

Marking Fairchild’s debut as a director and choreographerLord Chamberlain’s Men is a dance-theater work inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets and the origin story of Romeo & Juliet, exploring themes of identity, forbidden love, and sexual longing that resonate throughout Shakespeare’s writing. With acclaimed director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, OBE, serving as Creative Consultant, Fairchild brings together movement, text, and electro-acoustic music to create a theatrical landscape where storytelling and choreography intersect.

The in-process presentation will be followed by a conversation with the artists about the development of the work and Fairchild’s evolution from celebrated performer to director and choreographer.

Director: Robbie Fairchild
Choreographer: Robbie Fairchild after Sonya Tayeh’s Unveiling
Creative Consultant: Christopher Wheeldon, OBE

Music: Sean Forte & Ben Waters after Tchaikovsky
Book Writer: Rick Elice
Costume: Márion Talán de la Rosa
Light Design: Clifton Taylor
Assistant Choreographer: Lily Shepard
Performed by: Robbie Fairchild, Nico Greetham, Rachel Lockhart & Vincenzo di Primo

  • Robbie Fairchild

    Robbie Fairchild is an acclaimed actor and dancer whose career spans Broadway, the West End, film, and television. He now stars in Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s "ÉTOILE" on Amazon Prime Video, alongside Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Fairchild made his Tony-nominated Broadway debut in 2015 as Jerry Mulligan in An American in Paris, earning Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World, National Dance, and Astaire Awards, plus Evening Standard and Drama League nominations, and later reprised the role in London’s West End. From 2009–2017, he was a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet dancing Balanchine, Robbin’s, Wheeldon, Ratmansky, Justin Peck, McGregor. Other stage credits include The Artist, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Brigadoon, Oklahoma!, A Chorus Line, and Kiss Me, Kate. Screen credits include Tom Hooper’s "Cats," Netflix’s "Soundtrack," Fox’s "Mixtape," "Julie’s Greenroom," "The Chaperone," NY Philharmonic’s Carousel, "NY Export: Opus Jazz," and "Dancing With The Stars."

  • Nico Greetham

    Nico Greetham is one of Hollywood’s most dynamic rising stars, celebrated for his charisma, range, and magnetic screen presence. He first broke out on Broadway in Disney’s Newsies before starring in Netflix’s The Prom alongside Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and James Corden. Of Colombian and Scottish heritage, Greetham has showcased his versatility in Dramarama, Dinner in America, Hulu’s Love, Victor, and Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story franchise. Up next, he will star in Netflix’s highly anticipated Best of the Best. Fresh off One of the Good Ones at Pasadena Playhouse and The Old Globe, Greetham continues to prove himself as one of the industry’s most exciting young talents. He is repped by CAA, Independent Artist Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

  • Rachel Lockhart

    Rachel Lockhart, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, began her training at the J. Lockhart Performing Arts Institute under her mother’s direction. She is an alum of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and attended summer programs at Jacob’s Pillow, Kyle Abraham AIM, BodyTraffic, Joffrey Ballet, The Juilliard School, and several others. She has performed the works of Robert Battle, Ohad Naharin, Sidra Bell, Sonya Tayeh, Rena Butler, Norbert De La Cruz III, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge. Her choreography has been selected for several film festivals and events, including Juilliard’s Choreographic Honors program.  She also appeared off- and on-Broadway in Illinoise and just finished on the National Tour of MJ: The Musical.

  • Vincenzo di Primo

    Vincenzo di Primo grew up in Adrano, Sicily, Italy and graduated from the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy. Vincenzo has worked with The Royal Ballet of London, Greek National Ballet , Complexions Contemporary Ballet and performed works by Crystal Pite, Dwight Rhoden, Morgann Runacre-Temple , Justin Peck , Ricardo Amarante , Jenn Freeman , Jae Man Joo and more. He received awards including 3rd Prize Winner and Contemporary prize at the Prix de Lausanne, Gold Medal at Grand Prix de Paris , Best Artistry Award at Youth America Grand Prix New York, and Bronze Medal at Beijing International Ballet Competition. In 2019, he was a contestant and finalist on the Italian TV show Amici. In 2021, Vincenzo was included in Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”. He was part of the cast of Étoile, the ballet drama TV series on Amazon Prime Video.

  • Sean Peter Forte

    Sean Peter Forte is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary musician and performer who has worked in a variety of genres, styles, and settings. He is focused on creating new work that encourages audiences to reexamine the expectations they have when walking into a traditional theater or concert space.

    Sean is a proud member of the understudy family at Cole Escola's OH, MARY!, the Tony Award-winning runaway hit directed by the queer brilliance of Sam Pinkleton. Sean is a co-adapter of figaro/faggots - a hybrid theater piece combining Larry Kramer's revolutionary novel Faggots and Mozart's masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro - with Kevin Carillo, who conceived the piece. The show was at Baryshnikov Arts in fall 2025. figaro/faggots has had previous residencies at The Mercury Store and Lincoln Center. 

    In 2024, he was the associate musical director of Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Tony Award-winning musical, ILLINOISE, at the St. James Theatre on Broadway. The show premiered at Bard's SummerScape 2023 and was followed by sold out runs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. (NYT Critic's Pick)

    In 2022, Sean served as the musical director and conductor for the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Daniel Fish's Most Happy, a reimagining of the music from Frank Loesser's Most Happy Fella. Sean was also the associate musical director for the national tour of Fiasco Theater's Into the Woods that traveled the country in 2016 and 2017. He has worked as a rehearsal and substitute musician for many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows: including Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret, Hadestown, MJ the Musical, Here We Are, Daniel Fish's Oklahoma!, and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.

Sponsors

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence Principal Sponsor:
Kathy Rayner in memory of her husband, Billy Rayner

Dance programming is supported by Principal Sponsors SHS Foundation and the Straus Family Foundation, lead sponsor Danielle Mandelbaum Anderman, with additional support provided by Bonita and Kevin Stewart. 

Performing Arts programs are supported by 2026 season sponsors Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, with additional lead support from Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund. 

Guild Hall’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Gene Bernstein and Kathy Walsh, Amy Cooney and Marty Feinman, John and Joan D’Addario, Lynn and Richard Feinson, Suzanne and John Golden, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve and Susan Pesner and Peace, in memory of Michéle Pesner, whose entire life was devoted to all aspects of culture, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, and Susi and Peter Wunsch. 

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