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Daryl Gray studied acting and the violin as a child and made his professional debut at age 14 in the role of “Toby” in the St. Louis Opera Guild’s production of “The Medium”.  He was trained in a full dance curriculum under David Howard, as well as at the School of American Ballet and ABT, and studied acting at the HB Studios in NYC.  He was a B’way cast member in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ and a soloist in On Your Toes and other shows. He also appeared with Maurice Bejart and as a guest artist with numerous dance companies in the US and abroad, touring worldwide. Daryl had an early interest in choreography and musical staging and has gone on creating shows coast to coast in addition to more than 70 works on five continents. 

Choreographer: Ladies In Waiting (w/ Megan Mullaly)/Chicago Civic Theater, A Tribute To Richard Rodgers/St. Louis Muny Opera, Carmen/NYCO Lincoln Center, Columbus, the Musical/Playhouse 91, Amerika (w/ Madeline Kahn)/Santa Fe Festival Theater, Irma La Douce/Miami Coconut Grove Theater, The King & I, Grease, No, No Nanette, Brigadoon, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Once Upon A Mattress, Camelot/California Musical Theatre, Company/Playwrights Horizons, A Celebration of the American Musical/Paul Gemianganni (Musical Director)/Televised Live From Lincoln Center, Disney Extravaganza for the Recording Industry/Washington, D.C., Winter Dreams/Ice Theater of NY (ice- dancing) at Rockefeller Center, The Body Human/CBS TV, Bat Boy/USF, DanceBreak/AlvinAiley Theater, Wild About Harry/New York Musical Theater Festival, Andy Warhol Was Right/NY Musical Theater Festival.

Director/Choreographer: Broadway Holiday (High Fashion Industrial)/Dallas Apparel Mart, Associate Director/Choreographer; Patience/NY Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Dir./Choreographer; Daryl Gray’s The Pirates of Penzance!/Australian & American dance productions with singers- coast-to-coast, 26-city US tour by Columbia Artists- other productions San Jose Performing Arts Center/Bob Carr Theater Orlando/Straz Performing Arts Center Tampa; Brimstone/Stamford Arts Center, Associate Director to Julie Ann Boyd. 

Original works for the concert stage:  Joffrey, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, American Ballet Theater Workshop, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Atlanta Ballet, Ballet San Jose and numerous other dance companies across the U.S.  His choreography has also been featured by the Bejart Ballet of the 20th Century, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Batsheva Dance Co. of Israel, as well as by other companies in Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Korea, former Yugoslavia and South America.

Awards and grants include: NY Musical Theater Festival Award for Best Choreography; Best of the Bay/ San Francisco; Winner Koln International Choreographic Competition; Fulbright Fellowship; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Harkness Foundation; The NEA; NYS; and Massachusetts Council of the Arts Grants and more.  He has taught for and/or lectured about Dance at the United Nations, Harvard and Washington Universities, Ann Reinking’s Broadway Theater Project and dance organizations and companies worldwide.