Camille A. Brown is Founder and Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers and the recipient of a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, five Princess Grace Awards, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, Bessie Award, United States Artists Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, and TED Fellow, among others. Her theater credits include the TONY-nominated Choir Boy (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations); the TONY-winning revival of Once on This Island (Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, and Chita Rivera nominations), The Fortress of Solitude (Lortel nomination), TONI STONE (AUDELCO nomination), Much Ado About Nothing (AUDELCO nomination), and the EMMY-winning Jesus Christ Superstar on NBC, among others. She is the choreographer for Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf for The Public Theater and made her choreographic debut for the The Metropolitan Opera’s Porgy & Bess this Fall. This spring, she will make her directorial debut for Ain’t Misbehavin at Westport Playhouse, CT.