Susan P Stroman was born on October 17,1954 and is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer.
37 Facts About Susan Stroman
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Susan Stroman is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for The Producers.
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Susan Stroman is a 2014 inductee in the American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City.
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Susan Stroman was exposed to show tunes by her piano-playing salesman father.
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Susan Stroman began studying dance, concentrating on jazz, tap, and ballet at the age of five.
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Susan Stroman studied under James Jamieson at the Academy of the Dance in Wilmington.
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Susan Stroman majored in English at the University of Delaware.
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Susan Stroman performed, choreographed and directed at community theaters in the Delaware and Philadelphia area.
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Susan Stroman worked in small venues as a director and choreographer in various industrial shows, club acts and commercials.
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In 1994, Susan Stroman won her second Tony Award when she collaborated with Prince on a revival of Show Boat, where she used some of her most innovative ideas.
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Susan Stroman added several dance montages to the show, complete with a revolving door, to help guide the audience through the generations that are covered in the show.
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Susan Stroman heavily researched the period in which the show takes place and learned that African-Americans are credited for inventing the Charleston.
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Susan Stroman used that information in designing the montages, as the popular dance is introduced by and eventually appropriated from the black characters.
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In 1994, Susan Stroman collaborated again with her husband Mike Ockrent on the holiday spectacular A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden, which ran for 10 years, and the Broadway musical Big, The Musical.
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Susan Stroman returned to her collaboration with Kander and Ebb, Ellis and Thompson on the Broadway musical Steel Pier.
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Susan Stroman immersed herself in her work and directed and choreographed her first Broadway show as director, the 2000 revival of The Music Man.
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For Lincoln Center Theater, Susan Stroman went on to direct and choreograph Thou Shalt Not with music by Harry Connick Jr.
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In 2001, Susan Stroman directed and choreographed the Mel Brooks musical The Producers.
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Susan Stroman won her fourth and fifth Tony Awards for direction and choreography, becoming the first woman to win both awards in the same night.
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Susan Stroman was the second woman ever to win Best Direction of a Musical after Julie Taymor in 1998.
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Susan Stroman directed and choreographed the musical Happiness, which has a book by John Weidman, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie.
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The music is by Kander and Ebb and the book is by David Thompson; Susan Stroman both directed and choreographed.
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In 2013, Susan Stroman directed the UK premiere of the show at the Young Vic in London.
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Susan Stroman co-directed with Hal Prince the new musical Paradise Found, which premiered at the Menier Chocolate Factory on May 19,2010.
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Susan Stroman worked with Woody Allen on a musical adaptation of his film Bullets Over Broadway, titled Bullets Over Broadway the Musical, which opened on Broadway in April 2014.
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Susan Stroman directed and choreographed the new musical Little Dancer, which ran at the Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater from October 25,2014 to November 30.
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Susan Stroman collaborated with Prince as co-director of a new musical entitled Prince of Broadway, a retrospective of the career and life of Hal Prince.
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In 2004, Susan Stroman was the first woman to choreograph a full-length ballet for New York City Ballet.
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Susan Stroman had previously worked with New York City Ballet in 1999, when she created Blossom Got Kissed, featuring the music of Duke Ellington, to celebrate the company's 50th Anniversary season.
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Susan Stroman later revisited the piece, choreographing three additional short dances to be performed alongside the original.
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Susan Stroman combined jazz music by Dave Brubeck and classical pointe work.
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Susan Stroman appeared as herself in Season Four of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, directing Larry David and David Schwimmer in a production of the Broadway hit musical, The Producers.
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Susan Stroman has made multiple appearances as herself on the Food Network's Barefoot Contessa program, as she is a close friend of its host, Ina Garten.
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Susan Stroman received the American Choreography Award for her work in Columbia Pictures Feature film Center Stage.
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Susan Stroman received the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre for 2018, presented by the York Theatre Company.
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Susan Stroman is a 2002 New York Public Library "Library Lion" inductee for Outstanding Achievement in Art, Culture, Letters and Scholarship and a 2014 inductee into New York City's Theater Hall of Fame.
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In 2005 Susan Stroman received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Delaware.