Warren Carlyle

Bird College graduate Warren Carlyle is an international Director and Choreographer and has been nominated for three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards and an Emmy Award. Warren has already won the Outer Critics Circle Award and his work on After Midnight in 2014 saw him win a Tony Award for Best Choreography and the Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway show.

Shortly after graduating, Warren was chosen to become associate choreographer for the West End Royal National Theatre production of Oklahoma! (1998), and later to assist choreographer, Susan Stroman, on the Broadway musical The Producers. Warren was both director and choreographer of the Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow in 2009, for which he received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Director of a Musical. Warren was also the choreographer and co-director of the musical Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, which ran at the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, California, in 2010.

Warren’s latest project on the revival Broadway production of Kiss Me, Kate, has earnt him another Tony Award nomination for Best Choreography. Prior to that, Warren has worked closely with Hugh Jackman choreographing The Music Man and Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway and choreographed the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler.

Warren’s other theatre credits include: Chaplin (Barrymore Theatre), Finian’s Rainbow (Broadway), Follies (Kennedy Centre), A Tale of Two Cities (Broadway), Girl Crazy, On The Town, Juno, Stairway to Paradise, Encores! (At City Centre, NY), You Again (NY Fringe), 101 Dalmatians Musical (US Tour), Lucky Guy (Goodspeed Opera House), Dancing in the Dark (Old Globe Theatre, San Diego), Mame (2006), The Pirates of Penzance (Goodspeed Opera House and Paper Mill Playhouse), The Bakers Wife (Goodspeed Opera House), Pageant (Second City, CH), Me and My Girl (UK Tour), The Goodbye Girl (UK Tour) and Scrooge (European Tour).

Warren’s Film and Television credits include Deception starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor (20th Century Fox), Hope and Faith 2005 Episode Charley’s Shirt (ABC), An Evening at the Boston Pops (PBS) and Elton John’s Made in England video.