Susan Stroman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Susan Stroman
Occupation	Choreographer
Date Of Birth	Oct 17, 1954(1954-10-17)
Age	70
Birthplace	Wilmington
Country	United States
Birth City	Delaware
Horoscope	Libra

Susan Stroman Biography

Susan Stroman is one of the most popular and richest Choreographer who was born on October 17, 1954 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. After getting the first Tony Award for choreographing the early 1990s Broadway revival of Crazy for You, she won the same award for her choreography for Show Boat and Contact. The year 2001 was the time she received two Tonys for her choreography for The Producers. She has choreographed other productions in both New York City Ballet and The After winning her first Tony Award for choreographing the early 1990s Broadway revival of Crazy for You, she went on to win the same honor for her work on Show Boat and Contact. In 2001, she won two Tonys for her work on The Producers. She has also choreographed productions for both the New York City Ballet and The Martha Graham Company. Company.

She as well as She and Harold Prince co-directed the original London production of Paradise Found. co-directed the first London show Paradise Found.

After graduating in 1976, she moved to New York City. Her first professional appearance was in Hit the Deck at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1977. Later that year she was cast in the role of Hunyak in the National tour of Chicago, which marked her first time working with composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb.

Her first Broadway credit was as an ensemble member in the 1979 musical Whoopee!. In 1980 she was assistant director, assistant choreographer, and dance captain for the Broadway show Musical Chairs. Wanting to direct and choreograph instead of perform, Stroman concentrated on creating for the theater. She worked in small venues as a director and choreographer in various industrial shows, club acts and commercials.

The daughter born to Charles Stroman and Frances Stroman, she spent her childhood at Wilmington, Delaware. They were married an English-born Broadway producer Mike Ockrent from 1996 until Ockrent’s death from leukemia in 1999.

Susan Stroman Net Worth

Susan Stroman is one of the richest Choreographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susan Stroman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She studied dance throughout her early years, and then went on to study theater through The University of Delaware. After moving into New York City in the late 1970s, she performed in the cast of The 1979 Broadway show Whoopee! and later choreographed an Off-Broadway production in 1987 of Flora the Red Menace.

The actress was nominated to receive Tony Awards and/or Drama Desk Awards for her involvement in Broadway productions such as The Scottsboro Boys, The Music Man, Big, and Steel Pier.

Susan P. Stroman (born October 17, 1954) is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer. Her notable theater productions include The Producers, Crazy for You, Contact, and The Scottsboro Boys. She is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for The Producers. In addition, she is a recipient of two Laurence Olivier Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, eight Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, and the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater. She is a 2014 inductee in the American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City.

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Who is Susan Stroman Dating?

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In 1994, 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. She 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. Stroman heavily researched the period in which the show takes place and learned that African-Americans are credited for inventing the Charleston. She used that information in designing the montages, as the popular dance is introduced by and eventually appropriated from the black characters. In 1994, 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 (1996). She returned to her collaboration with Kander and Ebb, Ellis and Thompson on the Broadway musical Steel Pier (1997). In 1999, her choreography of Oklahoma!, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Royal National Theater, won Stroman her second Olivier Award for her outstanding choreography. Stroman’s husband Mike Ockrent died from leukemia on December 2, 1999.

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She immersed herself in her work and directed and choreographed her first Broadway show as director, the 2000 revival of The Music Man. At the same time, Stroman was approached by Lincoln Center Theater’s artistic director Andre Bishop, who offered assistance with developing the project of her choice. She and John Weidman, who had written the book for Big, began working on what would become the three-part “dance play” Contact, which she choreographed as well as directed. The show opened at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater in the fall of 1999, and later transferred to the larger Vivian Beaumont Theater, where it was reclassified as a musical. It won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical. Stroman won her third Tony Award for best choreography. Contact won a 2003 Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music- Dance Program when a live broadcast of the show appeared as an episode of PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center. For Lincoln Center Theater, Stroman went on to direct and choreograph Thou Shalt Not (2001) with music by Harry Connick Jr. and The Frogs (2004) with book by Nathan Lane.

How old is Susan Stroman?

67 years (October 17, 1954)

Who influenced Susan Stroman?

Choreographer and theatre director Susan Stroman (b. Wilmington, DE, 17 October 1954) has acquired over the past two decades the prominence in her field once accorded only to her inspiration, Jerome Robbins.

What did Susan Stroman choreography?

She also codirected and choreographed Prince of Broadway (2017), a revue celebrating the career of theatrical producer and director Harold Prince. Stroman’s later work included The Beast in the Jungle (2018).

Who choreographed the producers?

The film, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman , premiered in exclusive, single-screen engagements in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Toronto on Dec. 16. During its first weekend in limited release, the motion picture brought in a solid $156,000, playing on just six screens.

Who was the first notable director choreographer?

Bob Fosse
Born| Robert Louis FosseJune 23, 1927 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died| September 23, 1987 (aged 60) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place| Ashes scattered in the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Napeague/Amagansett, New York40.8°N 72.6°W
Occupation| Actor choreographer dancer director