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DANIEL PELZIG directs and choreographs for theatre, opera, ballet and concert halls. He choreographed a new musical, Newyorkers, at the Manhattan Theatre Club, for which he was nominated for a 2001 Lucille Lortel Award. Other credits include Carousel at the Hollywood Bowl, A Midsummer Night's Dream at Seattle Repertory Theatre and Mary Zimmerman's production of Philip Glass' Akhnaten in Chicago and Boston.
Other theatre credits include A Year with Frog and Toad (Broadway debut), 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda (Broadway), Privates on Parade at the Roundabout Theatre, My Fair Lady (Paper Mill Playhouse). He choreographed As You Like It for Washington's Shakespeare Theatre and Into the Woods for Kansas City Repertory Theater, The Woman Warrior at the Ahmanson Theatre, War Music ( American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco) and productions for such major American theaters as the Goodman, Kennedy Center, Old Globe, Manhattan Theatre Club, City Center Encores!, Sundance Theatre Lab, Huntington Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals and Paper Mill Playhouse.
He served four years as resident choreographer and Associate Artist for the Boston Ballet, most recently choreographing a world premiere ballet, Resurrection, set to Samuel Barber's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and played at its premiere by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
His extensive operatic work includes Iphigenie en Tauride, Lucia di Lammermoor and La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera, where he returns this season for the company's first production of Rossini's Armida. He has directed and choreographed The Bartered Bride for Opera Boston, Iphigenie at the Reina Sofia opera house in Valencia, Spain, Akhnaten at Stras-bourg's Opera National du Rhin, and Turandot for Fort Worth Opera. Other opera credits include European premiere of Blitzstein's Regina for the Scottish Opera conducted by John Mauceri, Aida (Los Angeles), Samson et Dalila (Houston, Los Angeles), Death in Venice (Chicago Opera Theater), and Florencia en las Amazonas and Salome (Seattle). Opera work includes three seasons as resident choreographer for the Santa Fe Opera, where he also directed Kalman's Countess Maritza.
He has been the recipient of numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pew Charitable Trusts. He was born in NYC and earned his degree in cellular biology from Columbia University.
Bio as of April, 2011.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
2002 Symposium: The Director Choreographer Relationship - June, 2002 - Listen Now.
2002 Symposium: Assembling The Team - June, 2002 - Listen Now.
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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