Richard Stafford
Choreographer/Director
Bio
Richard Stafford was the choreographer on Broadway for In My Life (Music Box Theatre), the associate choreographer for Aspects Of Love (Broadhurst Theatre), and dance supervisor for CATS (Winter Garden Theatre).
Off-Broadway credits include choreography for A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (St. Clements)
Internationally he was director/choreographer for The Full Monty, Joseph…Dreamcoat (Mexico City), choreographer for Jesus Christ Superstar (Mexico City), Evita (Sydney), CATS (Mexico City, Buenos Aires) and director/choreographer for CATS (Copenhagen, Sao Paulo, Rio). National Tours include CATS (director/ choreographer), My Fair Lady (choreographer), Joseph…Dreamcoat (choreographer, starring Deborah Gibson and Patrick Cassidy)—Troika Entertainment
Mr. Stafford’s Regional credits include: Director: Dreamgirls, Miss Saigon (North Carolina Theatre) Director/Choreographer: Curtains, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Beauty And The Beast, Cats (Walnut Street Theatre), Oliver!, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Cats (Pittsburgh CLO), Oliver!, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Cats (Sacramento Music Circus), The King & I, Singin’ In The Rain, Crazy For You, Fame, Swing, Cats (North Shore Music Theatre),
Beauty And The Beast, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas starring Sally Struthers (Ogunquit Playhouse), Gypsy, The Full Monty, Cats, A Wonderful Life (Westchester Broadway Theatre), Evita (Casa Manana), The Sound Of Music, Annie Get Your Gun (North Carolina Theatre), Sweeney Todd, Evita (Pennsylvania Center Stage), She Loves Me, Copacabana, Pirates Of Penzance, My Way (Mill Mountain Theatre)
Choreographer: at the Walnut Street Theatre -- The Goodbye Girl (starring Donna Mckechnie), Camila (premier), La Vie En Bleu (premier), Evita, Grand Hotel. At Pittsburgh CLO -- On the Town, Grand Hotel, Mame Camelot, Yestin/Kopit’s Phantom. At Casa Manana -- My Fair Lady, Tommy, Camelot, Grossinger’s (premier, starring Gavin Macleod), Dodsworth (premier, starring Hal Linden), Sound Of Music, Evita. Song Of Singapore (Chicago company), Grand Hotel (TUTS, Fifth Avenue Theatre), Joseph…Dreamcoat (Paper Mill Playhouse), Victor/Victoria (Maine State Music Theatre), Oliver! (starring Davy Jones—Hirschfeld Theatre) among others. Mr. Stafford won the Barrymore Award for outstanding choreography for La Cage Aux Folles at the Walnut Street Theatre.