Warren Adams

Broadway: Motown the Musical (Fred Astaire Award). West End: Motown the Musical. Off-Broadway: Ruined, How I Learned to Drive, Oroonoko, Baby Case. Film: Julie and Julia, Bewitched, Africa Straight Up. Opera: Magdalena (Chatelet, Paris), Die Zwerg (NYC). Ballet: Ballet Met, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Ballet Theatre Afrikan. Disney: Toy Story the Musical, Lion King 20th Anniversary (director/ choreographer). Upcoming productions: Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story (choreographer) and Gilbert Bailey’s Bout to Blow (director). Adams co-founded the production company WalkRunFly, which is producing The Hunger Games for the London stage and Whorl Inside a Loop for Broadway. Past productions include Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award) and Of Mice and Men on Broadway. Adams was born and raised in South Africa and was the first recipient of the Nelson Mandela/Sainsbury scholarship to study at the Rambert School in London. He has danced with companies in Europe, Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. He was the  first recipient of the Rudolf Nureyev Award in Europe and serves as an adjunct professor at NYU and Princeton University.