Mary Ann Lamb

Mary Ann Lamb: recently is choreographing a new jazz, ballet called “Little Sparrow” for both Marymount University (NYC) Spring Gala and also Lucia Martha’s 35th Gala Anniversary in Amsterdam. Last summer she set two different casts in two different theaters that performed in the Netherlands the jazz ballet “JazzMan”and the year before choreographed the “Celebration Chita Rivera” and all three were directed by Valarie Pettiford. And at the Joyce Theater in NYC she premiered the ballet “JazzMan” (2022) for “Destiny Rising” benefit with the talented Marymount College Dancers. Last year she danced in the film Babygirl with Nicole Kidman for A24. And this semester, she will be teaching at WCSU and also Marymont in NYC for musical theater as an adjunct professor.

She was the assistant choreographer for Susan Misner and assistant choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler on the hit television series FX Fosse/Verdon. She also coached dance for the stars Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams for the project. She is part of the Fosse/Verdon Legacy and teaches around the world.She choreographed Mamma Mia directed by Terrence Mann and choreographed the show Disaster for Connecticut Repertory Theater with Broadway director Jack Plotnick and star Seth Rudetsky. And danced on the VMA Awards 2019 with Taylor Swift opening number. Prior to that she choreographed the award winning production Evita at Western Connecticut State University receiving the Distinguished Choreography Award from The Kennedy Center American College Theater Awards. In that same season she choreographed Violet for WCSU. Mary Ann choreographed (with Lisa Gajda) Gypsy with Harbor Lights Productions and A Nightingale Sang at Westport Playhouse. She was Associate Choreographer for Susan Misner and Jonathon Bernstein’s, The Shape She Makes at ART Theater in Cambridge, and for JoAnn Hunter on Barry Manilow’s Harmony and Oliver at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey. As a performer Mary Ann has performed in 11 Broadway shows. On Broadway she played Mona Page in Curtains starring David Hyde Pierce and in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Curtains, choreographed by JoAnn Hunter. Other Broadway credits include: Contact; Seussical; Fosse; Chicago; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; Song and Dance; Goodbye Girl; Starlight Express; and Carrie. She’s played Young Claire in John Kander and Fred Ebb’s, The Visit, starring Chita Rivera. In addition to Broadway, Mary Ann has danced in eight productions at New York’s City Center in the prestigious ‘Encore series. She has played the lead role of Anna in the York Theater’s off-Broadway presentation of New Girl in Town; Lola in Sacramento Music Circus’s production of Damn Yankees; and Cerraine at Boston’s Huntington Theater in Lady From Maxims. She has danced in a variety of television roles, commercials, and films: Among these are the Oscar Award-winning film, Chicago; also Rock of Ages; The In Crowd; Portrait of a Showgirl; As the World Turns; and this fall she was honored to dance with The Muppets in their latest adventure film, Letters to Santa. Mary Ann’s extensive dance career is on display in a PBS documentary titled, Working Dancers II. Her vision of dance is shaped from working with the following choreographers and directors: Jerome Robbins, Graciella Daniel, Gwen Verdon, Ann Reinking, Kathleen Marshall, Susan Stroman, and Rob Marshall. These luminaries of the theater in addition to many others have inspired Mary Ann to pass on her artistic passion to others where she has taught dance all over the world in universities and master classes, and she was a faculty with Showstopper Conventions for also 20 years. Mary Ann has taught at several of the top universities including NYU, WCSU, Marymount NYC, Penn State, and Wilson University.