Ann Yee

Ann Yee (born 1982 in Ohio ) is an American choreographer .

Life

Yee studied at the Boston Conservatory , received a scholarship from the Harvard Summer Dance Center, and received her Masters of Fine Arts from Ohio State University . Since then she has worked as a choreographer for drama productions, occasionally also in musicals or operas, mostly in Great Britain.

Yee was involved in the following productions, among others:

• Urinetown (St. James Theater, Apollo Theater, West End)
• The Commitments (Palace Theater, West End)
• The Color Purple (Menier Chocolate Factory)
• Wozzeck ( English National Opera )
• Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios)
• The Country Wife (Royal Exchange Theater)
• Torch Song Trilogy (Menier Chocolate Factory)
• Ingerland ( Royal Opera House , Opera Shots)
• Salome (Headlong)
• Much Ado About Nothing (Regent's Park Open Air)
• Eric’s (Everyman Theater), The Duchess of Malfi ( Old Vic )
• Orpheus and Eurydice (National Youth Theater, Old Vic Tunnels) and
• Mr. Burns (Almeida Theater).

In addition choreographies created for the Royal Shakespeare Company ( Queen Anne , King Lear , A Soldier In Every Son ; Titus Andronicus ), the Young Vic ( Ah, Wilderness! ; After Miss Julie ), the Royal National Theater ( Blurred Lines , She Stoops to Conquer ; The Comedy of Errors ), the Donmar Warehouse ( Julius Caesar ; Berenice ; Philadelphia, Here I Come! ) And for the Gate Theater Notting Hill ( Hair ; Woyzeck ). In 2015 she was invited by the Salzburg Festival to create the choreography for the experimental version of Mackie Messer - a Salzburg threepenny opera by Brecht / Weill in the new musical arrangement by Martin Lowe , directed by Julian Crouch and Sven-Eric Bechtolf . In October 2015 she was Movement Director at the world premiere of Anita and Me at the Birmingham Repertoire Theater , after which the production will also be shown at the Theater Royal Stratford East. In 2016 she will make her debut at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival with Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia .

Web links

• Ann Yee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ann Yee , short biography of the Salzburg Festival