Choreography: Theatre / Opera
Available for Touring
In the Same Tongue
Presented 2023-2024: Walker Art Center, ASU Gammage, Duke Arts, Apollo Theater and ArtsEmerson
2019
Porgy and Bess
Conducted by James Gaffigan
Directed by James Robinson
Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, NL
2018
Porgy and Bess
Conducted by John Wilson
Directed by James Robinson
English National Opera, London UK
Crowns
Written and directed by Regina Taylor
Assistant choreographer Nikeshia Kelly
Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford, CT
Crowns
Written and directed by Regina Taylor
Assistant choreographer Nikeshia Kelly
2015
lost in language and sound
Written by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Rhodessa Jones
Produced by 651 Arts
Work-in-progress at Karamu’s Jelliffe Theatre, Cleveland, OH
2014
lost in language and sound
Written by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Rhodessa Jones
Produced by 651 Arts
Work-in-progress at Kumble Theater, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Crowns
Written and directed by Regina Taylor
Goodman Theatre, Chicago
Why I Had to Dance
Written by Ntozake Shange
Directed and choreographed by Dianne McIntye
Oberlin College and PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland
Unexpected Journeys
Written by Oberlin students
Directed by Caroline Jackson Smith
Oberlin College and PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland
2010
Closure
Written by Mary Weems
Directed by Terrence Spivey
Karamu Theatre, Cleveland
2009
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Written by August Wilson
Directed by Barlett Sher
Lincoln Center Theater on Broadway/Belasco Theatre
2008
Peaches, Plums and Pontifications
Created by Dianne McIntyre and Olu Dara
651 Arts at BRICstudio, Brooklyn workshop
2007
It hasn’t always been this way
Written by Ntozake Shange (1981 and 2006)
Directed and choreographed by Dianne McIntyre
New Federal Theatre, New York City;
National Black Theater Festival, Winston-Salem, NC
2005
Crowns
Written and directed by Regina Taylor
Dallas Theater Center
Open the Door, Virginia!
Written and directed by Dianne McIntyre
Produce at Theater of the First Amendment, Fairfax, VA
2003-2004
Crowns
Written and directed by Regina Taylor
Alliance, Arena Stage, Goodman, Hartford Stage
2004
Crowns
Directed and choreographed by Dianne McIntyre
Produced at Cleveland Play House
2002, 04
Polk County
Written by Zora Neale Hurston
Directed by Kyle Donnelly
ArenaStage, McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep
2003
Home, the Musical
Written by Samm Art-Williams
Directed by Ron Himes
St. Louis Black Repertory Company
2000-2001
King Hedley II
Written by August Wilson
Directed by Marion McClinton
Huntington, Mark Taper, Goodman, Kennedy Center, and Broadway
2000
Treemonisha
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Music – Scott Joplin
Directed by Rhoda Levine
1999
Death and the King’s Horseman
Written by Wole Soyinka
Directed by Marion McClinton
Syracuse Stage
I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change
Director and Choreographer, Creator
Baltimore, CenterStage
1998
I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change
Director and Choreographer, Creator
Cleveland Play House
Blues Rooms
Theater of the First Amendment
Director and Choreographer
Music – Olu Dara
1996
The Darker Face of the Earth
Written by Rita Dove
Directed by Rick Khan
Crossroads Theatre, NJ and Kennedy Center
The Darker Face of the Earth
Written by Rita Dove
Directed by Rick Khan
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
1995
I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change
Director and Choreographer, Creator
Theater of the First Amendment
1993, 94
In Living Color: A Gullah Story
Directed and Choreographed, and Co-Conceived
Written by OyamO, Music by Olu Dara
New Dramatists and Theater of the First Amendment
1994
What Use Are Flowers?
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Crossroads Theatre at the National Black Arts Festival
The People Could Fly and Still Do
Produced at Apollo Theatre, New York City
Produced and directed by Phylicia Rashad
The Cherry Orchard
Produced at Center Stage, Baltimore
Directed by Irene Lewis
Othello
Produced at Center Stage, Baltimore
Directed by Irene Lewis
1993
Pericles
Produced at Center Stage, Baltimore
Directed by Irene Lewis
1991
Black Orpheus
Produced at Crossroads Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ
Directed by Rick Khan
Written by OyamO
Mule Bone
Written by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
Music by Taj Mahal, Directed by Michael Schwarz
Produced by Lincoln Center at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre
1990
King, The Musical
Music by Richard Blackford, Lyrics by Maya Angelou
Written by Ron Milner, Richard Nelson, Lonne Elder III
Directed by Graham Vick, Clarke Peters, John Caird
Produced in London’s West End, Piccadilly Theatre
In Dahomey
Re-written by Shauneille Perry
Directed and Choreographed
Produced by Karamu Theatre, Cleveland
1989
Miss Evers’ Boys
Produced at Center Stage and Mark Taper Forum
Directed by Irene Lewis
1988
80 Days
LaJolla Playhouse, CA
Music by Ray Davies
Directed by Des McAnuff
1987
God’s Trombones
Produced at Schubert Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
Directed by Woodie King
1986
Black Girl
Directed by Glenda Dickerson
Second Stage, New York City
Shout Up a Morning
Directed by Des McAnuff,
Music by Nat and Cannonball Adderley
Produced at La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA
A Tale of Madame Zora
By Aishah Rahman, Directed by Glenda Dickerson, Music by Olu Dara
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC
Riding the Moon in Texas
Written by Ntozake Shange
Houston performing arts center
1985
Mama Bett
Directing debut by Dianne McIntyre (Actor, Mary Alice)
Public Theatre workshop, New York City
1983
Adam
Produced at Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, New Federal, NYC
Life of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
1982
The Last Minstrel Show
Directed by Avery Brooks
Produced at Rutgers University
Mouths
Written by Ntozake Shange
Produced at The Kitchen, New York City
1981 – Present
Paul Robeson
Produced at Crossroads Theatre, national theatres and on Broadway
Avery Brooks as Paul Robeson
1980
Take Me Along
Directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald
Produced at Triplex Theatre, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Boogie Woogie Landscapes
Written by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Avery Brooks
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
1979
Be-Bop
Original music from bebop era by Dizzy Gillespie, John Hendricks, Charlie Parker and others
Produced at Wonderhorse Theatre, Off-Broadway, NYC
Spell #7
Written by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Oz Scott
Music by Lawrence (Butch) Morris and David Murray
NY Public Theater, Joseph Papp, Producer
1974 and 1977
The Great MacDaddy
Written by Paul Carter Harrison
Directed by Douglas Turner Ward
Music by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Produced by The Negro Ensemble Company, Off-Broadway