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Name
  
John Carrafa

Role
  
Theater Director

Education
  
Bates College


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Awards
  
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreographer, Obie Award for Choreography

Nominations
  
Tony Award for Best Choreography

Similar
  
John Rando, Greg Kotis, Hunter Foster, Mark Hollmann, Spencer Kayden

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John Carrafa is an American theater and film director/choreographer best known as the two-time Tony Award nominated choreographer of the Broadway musicals Urinetown and Into The Woods and the Media Choreography Honors Award winner for the Robert Zemeckis film The Polar Express.

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He was a dancer and assistant to Twyla Tharp before becoming a choreographer and director for Broadway, film and television.

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He currently resides in New York City and in Los Angeles California.

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John Carrafa's 2016 Choreography Reel


Broadway and theater

  • Love! Valour! Compassion! - Off-Broadway (1994) Broadway (1995)
  • Dirty Blonde - Off-Broadway (2000) and Broadway (2001)
  • Urinetown - Off-Broadway (2001) and Broadway (2002)
  • A Little Night Music - Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, 2002
  • Into The Woods - Broadway (2002)
  • Dance of the Vampires - Broadway (2003)
  • Good Vibrations - Broadway (2005)

    • Filmography

  • Love! Valour! Compassion! - (1997)
  • The Last Days of Disco - (1998)
  • The Thomas Crown Affair - (1999)
  • The Polar Express - (2004)
  • Who's The Top? - (2005)
  • The Other Guys - (2010)
  • Something Borrowed - (2011)

    • Television

  • Sex and The City - (1999)
  • Big Love - (2010)
  • Ugly Betty - (2009)
  • Blue Bloods - (2011)
  • The Big C - (2012)
  • Elementary - (2012)
  • Nashville - (2013)
  • Nurse Jackie - (2013)

    • Awards

  • World Dance Award for Feature Film - (2012)
  • Director of Best Musical Daegu International Theater Festival - *"Academy" (2010)
  • Honorable Mention Best Director NYMF - *"Academy" (2009)
  • Joseph Jefferson Award - *"Animal Crackers" (2009) Nomination
  • Media Choreography Honors - for *"The Polar Express" (2005)
  • Dora Award - *"Urinetown" (2004)
  • Drama Desk - *"Urinetown" (2001) Nomination
  • Lucille Lortel Award - *"Urinetown" (2001)
  • Outer Critics Circle Award - *"Urinetown" (2001) Nomination
  • Tony Award - *"Urinetown" (2002) Nomination
  • Tony Award - *"Into The Woods" (2002) Nomination

    • References

    John Carrafa Wikipedia
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