Susan Stroman is a five-time Tony Award winning director and choreographer. She is most known for the Broadway musicals Crazy for You, Contact, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Producers – winner of a record-making 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best Choreography. Her work has been honored with 2 Olivier, 6 Drama Desk, 13 Outer Critics Circle, 2 Lucille Lortel, and a record six Astaire Awards.
Her most recent Broadway shows include the musical SMASH, the Delia Ephron play Left on Tenth, the new Kander and Ebb musical New York,
New York, and Selina Fillinger’s play POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.
In London’s West End, she most recently directed and choreographed the sold-out concert performance of Little Dancer at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the critically acclaimed revival of Crazy for You at the Gillian
Lynne Theatre.
Other Broadway credits include Prince of Broadway, Bullets Over Broadway, Show Boat, The Frogs, Big Fish, Oklahoma!, Young Frankenstein, Thou Shalt Not, The Music Man, Big, and Steel Pier. Off-Broadway credits include Dot by Colman Domingo, The Beastin the Jungle, Flora the Red Menace, And the World Goes ‘Round, Happiness, The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, as well as The Merry Widow for the Metropolitan Opera and Liza Stepping Out at Radio City. She has created ballets for New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Martha Graham Company. For ten years she choreographed Madison Square Garden’s annual spectacular A Christmas Carol.
She received the American Choreography Award for her work in Columbia Pictures feature film Center Stage. She is member of the Board of Directors for the Ronald O. Perelman Center for the Performing Arts located at the World Trade Center. She recently has been named the president of Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts. She is the recipient of the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater and an inductee of the Theater Hall of Fame in New York City.