Lorin Latarro Explained

Lorin Latarro is a Broadway Director/Choreographer whose work can be seen on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, and in dance companies internationally. She began her career as a dancer who performed in fourteen Broadway shows and toured with world renowned dance companies.

Life and career

She graduated from the Juilliard School where she trained under Benjamin Harkarvy. She also trained with Pina Bausch, Hector Zaraspe and Jirí Kylián. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Juilliard, Latarro danced for the Martha Graham Dance Company and later with MOMIX and Twyla Tharp. She performed in 14 Broadway shows including Fosse, Movin' Out, A Chorus Line, Spamalot, and Swing!.^[1]

Latarro is now a Director/Choreographer in New York City whose credits include Broadway's "Tommy", "Heart of Rock and Roll", "Once Upon A Mattress", “Into The Woods”, "Waitress", “Mrs. Doubtfire”, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", Waiting for Godot, The Metropolitan Opera's "La Traviata",This American Life: "21 Chump Street " for Ira Glass and Lin-Manuel Miranda, Public Theater's The Odyssey and Twelfth Night', BAM's Peter and The Wolf, Queen Of The Night (Drama Desk Award),^[2] Encores! Fanny (2010),^[3] Kiss Me Kate, and Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time (assoc), American Idiot (assoc) and more. She is the Artistic Associate at The Bucks County Playhouse. Encores -Once Upon A Mattress, Oliver, Assassins, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Into The Woods, Fanny. Lorin is currently developing Lauren Sandler’s novel This Is All I Got with playwright Kirsten Greenidge and Crystal Monee Hall into a musical about a homeless woman in NYC and her plight to find a stable housing for herself and her newborn son. Lorin recently directed Candace Bushnell’s one woman show, IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY at the Daryl Roth Theatre, which became a NYTimes Critic’s Pick.

Additional Directing credits HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY-The Immersive Experience, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT which garnered a Drama Desk Award, The David Foster and Kat McPhee Show, #DATEME at The Westside Theatre, A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME at Chicago’s Nederlander Broadway, SWELLING AND IRRITATION by Jodi Picoult and Tim McDonald, TRAILS by Jeff Thompson, Christy Hall. RODGERS AFTER HAMMERSTEIN – 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists, Beth Malone’s THREE PART HARMONY- Theatre Aspen.

Ms. Latarro holds a BFA from The Juilliard School where she is an adjunct professor. She holds a secondary degree from NYU Tisch Film and Television Directing Fundamentals. She is a multiple Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics, and Chita Rivera nominee. Lorin has traveled to India and Africa multiple times to work with The Gates Foundation in family health and planning and is the founder of ArtAmmmo.org Artists Against Gun Violence as seen in the NY Times, PBS, Rachel Maddow, BBC.

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In addition to Latarro’s choreographic successes, she also works with the Gates Foundation on missions in Africa and is the founder of artammo.org. ART = AMMO, Artists Against Gun Violence.^[4] Latarro brings performance flash mobs to different areas of the country to encourage people to stop and truly think about their stance on gun violence in the United States.

Stage productions

Dance Companies:

• Juilliard Dance Ensemble
• Martha Graham Dance Company
• MOMIX
• Tharp!

Broadway:

• Swing! – Lead Lyndy Hop
• Fosse – featured role
• Kiss Me, Kate – Bianca u/s
• Man of La Mancha – Fermina
• Wonderful Town – Ensemble
• Movin' Out – Brenda
• Spamalot – Ensemble
• A Chorus Line – Cassie /Sheila/ Diana/ Vicki
• The Apple Tree – Nadjira, Dance Captain
• Grease you're the one that I want – NBC television 2007 – Associate Choreographer
• Curtains – 2008 – Bambi
• Guys and Dolls – Adelaide
• American Idiot – Associate Choreographer and Dance Captain, Director Michael Mayer
• How To Succeed In Business Without Trying – Ensemble
• Hands On A Hard Body – Associate Choreographer, Director Neil Pepe
• Scandalous – Choreographer, Director David Armstrong
• Waiting for Godot – Choreographer^[5]
• Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time – Associate Choreographer, Director Marianne Elliot
• Waitress – Choreographer, Director Diane Paulus

Lincoln Center:

• Company – PBS Live From Lincoln Center
• Hansel and Gretel – PBS Live From Lincoln Center
• Bessie Shoenberg Dance – PBS Live From Lincoln Center
• Rigoletto – The Metropolitan Opera – Associate Choreographer, Director Michael Mayer
• La traviata – The Metropolitan Opera – Choreographer. Produced by Michael Mayer.^[6] Available as an HD streaming video at Met Opera on Demand.^[7]

Other

• 2020 The Visitor at the Public Theater^[8]
• 2020 La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera^[9]
• 2019 Waitress Tour^[10]
• 2019 Waitress London The West End
• 2019 The Outsiders at the Goodman Theatre^[11]
• 2019 Mrs. Doubtfire at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre^[12]
• 2019 Almost Famous at the Old Globe Theatre^[13]
• 2019 Guys and Dolls directed by Gordon Greenberg at The Muny^[14]
• 2019 Superhero at Second Stage Theater^[15]
• 2019 Merrily We Roll Along Roundabout Theatre Fiasco Theatre^[16]
• 2018 The Heart of Rock and Roll directed by Gordon Greenberg at the Old Globe Theatre^[17]
• 2011 Tomorrow Morning by Laurence Mark Wythe Theatre at St Peters, Lexington Avenue - York Theatre Company.
• 2011 The Best Is Yet To Come – 59 E 59th, New York City – 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Revue; Choreographer, Director David Zippel^[18]
• 2012 City Club, Minetta Lane Theatre, Choreographer^[19]
• 2013 Queen Of The Night – Diamond Horseshoe Club, Paramount Hotel;^[20] 2015 Drama Desk Award, Unique Theatrical Experience;^[21] Choreographer, Director Christine Jones
• 2014 21 Chump Street – BAM, Choreographer, Director Michael Mayer^[22]
• 2014 Jasper In Deadland – Prospect Theater Company, New York City, Choreographer, Director Brandon Ivie^[23]
• 2014 Peter And The Wolf – BAM, Choreographer, Director Annette Jolles^[24]
• 2015 The Odyssey – The Public Theatre, Delacorte Theater, Choreographer, Director Lear DeBessonet^[25]
• 2015 Beaches, Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago, Illinois – Choreographer, Director Eric Shaeffer^[26]
• Hugh Jackman's Broadway – Wynn Hotel
• 2016 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Encores!, Choreographer, Director Michael Mayer^[27]
• 2016 Twelfth Night – The Public Theatre, Delacorte Theater, Choreographer, Director Kwame Kwei-Armah^[28]

Press

How the Women of Waitress Are Changing Broadway Behind the Scenes - TIME, April 19, 2016

BWW Interview: Choreographer Lorin Latarro on Creating the Dances for Broadway's WAITRESS - Broadway World, February 24, 2016

How Skipping School Kick-Started a Career for Waitress Choreographer Lorin Latarro - Broadway.com, April 13, 2016

Broadway Time Machine: Waitress Choreographer Lorin Latarro Talks 5 Game-Changing Shows - Broadway Box, April 21, 2016

SWEET SUCCESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH “WAITRESS” CHOREOGRAPHER LORIN LATARRO - Master Chat, April 20, 2016

What 'Waitress' Choreographer Lorin Latarro Wants Dancers to Know - backstage, August 3, 2016

Broadway-Bound Musical ‘Waitress’ Makes History With All Female Creative Team – a Talk With Choreographer Lorin Latarro - The Huffington Post, March 23, 2016

Opening Up with Lorin Latarro - The Broadway Blogger, August 8, 2016

Flash Mob in Times Square Honors Victims of Newtown - NYTimes, February 24, 2013

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lorin Latarro Choreographer. www.lorinlatarro.com. 2015-09-27.
2. News: Interactive Play 'Queen of the Night' Opens at Restored Diamond Horseshoe Club. The Daily Beast. 2013-12-31. 2015-09-27. Brian. Spitulnik.
3. Gans, Andrew. "Encores! 'Fanny' Plays City Center Beginning Feb. 4" playbill.com, February 4, 2010
4. Web site: Art=Ammo Artists Against Gun Violence "Non-action is a tragic flaw" – Brecht. www.artammo.org. 2015-09-27.
5. http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/14013/Waiting-for-Godot "'Waiting for Godot' Broadway"
6. http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=357072 "La Traviata, December 4, 2018"
7. https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=810004200630 "La Traviata, December 15, 2018"
8. Web site: The Visitor. www.publictheater.org. en. 2019-08-22.
9. Web site: La Traviata. www.metopera.org. en. 2019-08-22.
10. Web site: Waitress: A New Musical Official Broadway Site. Waitress: A New Musical. en. 2019-08-22.
11. Web site: The Outsiders Goodman Theatre. www.goodmantheatre.org. 2019-08-22.
12. Web site: Mrs. Doubtfire - 5th Avenue. www.5thavenue.org. 2019-08-22.
13. Web site: Almost Famous The Old Globe. www.theoldglobe.org. 2019-08-22.
14. Web site: The Muny.
15. Web site: Superhero Opens February 28 at Second Stage Theater Off-Broadway. Clement. Olivia. February 28, 2019. Playbill. 2019-08-22.
16. Web site: Merrily We Roll Along. www.roundabouttheatre.org. en. 2019-08-22.
17. Web site: Matt Doyle to Star in Huey Lewis and the News Musical The Heart of Rock & Roll. Hetrick. Adam. July 20, 2018. Playbill. 2019-08-22.
18. Jones, Kenneth. "'Best Is Yet to Come', a Cy Coleman Musical, Begins in NYC with Lillias White, Howard McGillin, Rachel York" playbill.com, May 18, 2011
19. http://lortel.org/Archives/Production/5345 City Club
20. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/31/interactive-play-queen-of-the-night-opens-at-restored-diamond-horseshoe-club.html "Interactive Play ‘Queen of the Night’ Opens at Restored Diamond Horseshoe Club"
21. Cox, Gordon. "‘Hamilton,’ ‘Curious Incident’ Top the 2015 Drama Desk Awards" Variety, May 31, 2015
22. Dalzell, Jennie. "Your Saturday Video Fix: “Glee” Meets In the Heights Meets 'This American Life' " dancespirit.com, July 5, 2014
23. http://www.prospecttheater.org/2014/02/18/jasper-in-deadland-coming-march-2014/ "'Jasper In Deadland'"
24. http://nyceast.macaronikid.com/article/870424/dont-miss-the-little-orchestra-societys-peter-and-the-wolf Peter And The Wolf
25. http://publictheater.org/theodyssey/ The Odyssey
26. Oleksinski, Johnny. "'Beaches' announces creative team" Chicago Tribune, April 22, 2015
27. Web site: James Earl Jones Joins God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. 27 June 2016.
28. Web site: Public Works.