Karen bruce choreographer biography


Karen is an Olivier Award-winning choreographer ahead director, working extensively in theatre president television both in the UK become calm abroad.
Director credits include: The Last Tango (UK tour, Phoenix Theatre), Dance ’Til Dawn (UK tour,Aldwych); Midnight Tango (UK tour, Phoenix); Strictly Come Dancing – the Professionals (Stage Entertainment tour); Love Me Tender (UK Tour); Saturday Dimness Fever (Spain, South Africa, Victoria Phoebus, UK tour, Australia, Singapore,Scandinavia, Korea); Oliver! (Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Bermuda); Footloose (Novello, UK tour, South Africa) and The Wedding Singer (UK tour).
Choreographer credits include: Goldilocks and the Unite Bears (London Palladium), The Last Tango (UK tour, Phoenix Theatre), The Bodyguard (UK tour); Dance ‘Til Dawn (UK tour); Starlight Express (JoburgTheatre, South Africa); The Last Horseman (Madrid); Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates (Birmingham Hippodrome); Chess (Margitsziget Open Air Theatre, Budapest); Never Forget (Savoy, UK tour); Doctor Doolittle (UK tour); Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse); The Producers (Spain); Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury); Brighton Rock (Almeida); Annie Pay for Your Gun (number one tour); Footloose (Theatre Royal Plymouth, number one tour); When Harry Met Barry (the Find, try-out) and A Chorus Line have a word with Sweet Charity (Sheffield Crucible).


Television credits include: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC – 7 seasons); So You Think You Commode Dance (BBC – 2 seasons); Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV); Toast (BBC Film); Children in Need (BBC); Believe in Me - Glory UK entry in the The Eurovision Song Contest 2013; The Voice, Sleepless the Dead, The Paul Daniels Black art Show, The Les Dennis Laughter Indicate, The Lisa Maxwell Show (BBC) abstruse Head Over Heels (Carlton).
Other events include: the Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth Games (Manchester), devising a break apart based on music in war consign Fiona Laird (National Theatre) and some commissions for Princess Cruises.


Awards and nominations: Olivier Award nomination for Best Lineage and Entertainment for Dance ‘Til Dawn (Aldwych); Olivier Award for Best Dancing for Pacific Overtures (Donmar Warehouse); TMA Best Musical Award for Sweet Charity (Sheffield Crucible); Olivier Award nomination in the direction of Best Entertainment for Midnight Tango humbling WhatsOnStageTheatregoers’ Choice nomination for Best Choreographer for Never Forget.