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KENNETH l. Roberson - Director

(www.kennethroberson.com) is an award-winning veteran director/choreography/performer. For Broadway, he choreographed the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Avenue Q, receiving a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Choreography; All Shook Up; Purlie and Freak.

His off-Broadway choreography credits include A Boy and His Soul at the Vineyard Theatre (2011 Lucille Lortel Nomination outstanding choreography); Insurrection at the Public Theater; Avenue X at Playwrights Horizons; Mineola Twins at the Roundabout Theatre Company; and Drowning Crow at Manhattan Theatre Club. Roberson choreographed George C. Wolfe’s Harlem Song (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Nominations for best choreography) at the Apollo Theater and served as director/choreographer for Wycliff Gordon’s Jazz a La Carte, featuring Maurice Hines and Savion Glover.

He directed Nina Simone: Four Women at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre in 2018, and at Merrimack Repertory in 2019; and Ethel at the Alliance Theatre in 2016 and Spunk at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Roberson served as Director of the musical Frog Kiss, at Virginia Stage Company