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Sam Pinkleton is a Tony Award-winning director, choreographer, and gay person. His work as a director includes Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! (Broadway/Lucille Lortel Theatre), Josh Sharp's Ta-Da! (Greenwich House Theater), Morgan Bassichis’ Can I Be Frank? (Soho Playhouse/La MaMa), Noah Diaz’ You Will Get Sick (Roundabout), The Wizard of Oz (ACT), Elizabeth Swados’ Runaways (Encores/Shakespeare in the Park), Head Over Heels (with Jenny Koons) and La Cage Aux Folles at Pasadena Playhouse, and Untitled DanceShowPartyThing (with Ani Taj - Virgin Voyages). Highlights of his work as a choreographer include Stephen Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are (The Shed/The National Theater), Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang’s Soft Power (The Public/CTG), and eight shows on Broadway including Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Tony Nomination), Macbeth, and Machinal. Film/TV includes Dying For Sex and the musical The End, starring Tilda Swinton. His upcoming work includes the participatory Scottish dance musical Ceilidh and a revival of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway at Studio 54.
SAM PINKLETON is a Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer known for making peskily genre-defying theater work and big-hearted, human-powered spectacles. Born and raised in small town Virginia, he most recently directed Cole Escola's sold out downtown sensation Oh, Mary! and choreographed Stephen Sondheim's final musical Here We Are at The Shed. Other recent work includes a new stage production of The Wizard Of Oz at ACT in San Francisco (with surprise guests including Sister Roma, the Bay Area Intertribal Dancers, and the San Francisco Gay + Lesbian Freedom Marching Band), the undefinable dance-driven club experience Untitled DanceShowPartyThing for Virgin Voyages (created with Ani Taj), the world premiere of Noah Diaz’s You Will Get Sick starring Linda Lavin (Roundabout Theater Company), a new production of the Go-Go’s musical Head Over Heels, starring Alaska 5000 and Lea DeLaria (created with Jenny Koons for Pasadena Playhouse), the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang’s Pulitzer Prize Finalist Soft Power (The Public Theater / Center Theater Group), and a revival of Liz Swados’ groundbreaking musical Runaways, reconceived as a youth-led civic spectacular in Central Park. His work on Broadway includes the electropop epic Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 with Josh Groban (Tony Award Nomination), Macbeth with Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, the musical adaptation of Amélie, a revival of Machinal with Rebecca Hall, and the world premieres of Heisenberg and Significant Other. He has created new work in collaboration with Courtney Love, Todd Almond, The Dutch National Opera, the NYC Department of Education, Carnegie Hall, James Corden, BAM, Soho Rep, Anne Washburn, The Civilians, David Adjmi, Swing Left, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Pig Iron Theater Company, Cirque du Soleil, Nickelodeon, and the late Liz Swados and Michael Friedman. The New York Times has described his work as “gloriously geeky”, “delightfully droll”, and “how the Ramones might have danced if Bob Fosse choreographed them.” He does not own any dance shoes.
