Lorin Latarro is a Broadway Director/Choreographer whose work can be seen on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, and in dance companies internationally. She began her career as a dancer who performed in fourteen Broadway shows and toured with world renowned dance companies.
Life and career
She graduated from the Juilliard School where she trained under Benjamin Harkarvy. She also trained with Pina Bausch, Hector Zaraspe and Jirí Kylián. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Juilliard, Latarro danced for the Martha Graham Dance Company and later with MOMIX and Twyla Tharp. She performed in 14 Broadway shows including Fosse, Movin' Out, A Chorus Line, Spamalot, and Swing!.[1]
Latarro is now a Director/Choreographer in New York City whose credits include Broadway's "Tommy", "Heart of Rock and Roll", "Once Upon A Mattress", “Into The Woods”, "Waitress", “Mrs. Doubtfire”, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", Waiting for Godot, The Metropolitan Opera's "La Traviata",This American Life: "21 Chump Street " for Ira Glass and Lin-Manuel Miranda, Public Theater's The Odyssey and Twelfth Night', BAM's Peter and The Wolf, Queen Of The Night (Drama Desk Award),[2]Encores!Fanny (2010),[3]Kiss Me Kate, and Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time (assoc), American Idiot (assoc) and more. She is the Artistic Associate at The Bucks County Playhouse. Encores -Once Upon A Mattress, Oliver, Assassins, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Into The Woods, Fanny.
Lorin is currently developing Lauren Sandler’s novel This Is All I Got with playwright Kirsten Greenidge and Crystal Monee Hall into a musical about a homeless woman in NYC and her plight to find a stable housing for herself and her newborn son. Lorin recently directed Candace Bushnell’s one woman show, IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY at the Daryl Roth Theatre, which became a NYTimes Critic’s Pick.
Additional Directing credits HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY-The Immersive Experience, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT which garnered a Drama Desk Award, The David Foster and Kat McPhee Show, #DATEME at The Westside Theatre, A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME at Chicago’s Nederlander Broadway, SWELLING AND IRRITATION by Jodi Picoult and Tim McDonald, TRAILS by Jeff Thompson, Christy Hall. RODGERS AFTER HAMMERSTEIN – 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists, Beth Malone’s THREE PART HARMONY- Theatre Aspen.
Ms. Latarro holds a BFA from The Juilliard School where she is an adjunct professor. She holds a secondary degree from NYU Tisch Film and Television Directing Fundamentals. She is a multiple Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics, and Chita Rivera nominee. Lorin has traveled to India and Africa multiple times to work with The Gates Foundation in family health and planning and is the founder of ArtAmmmo.org Artists Against Gun Violence as seen in the NY Times, PBS, Rachel Maddow, BBC.
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In addition to Latarro’s choreographic successes, she also works with the Gates Foundation on missions in Africa and is the founder of artammo.org. ART = AMMO, Artists Against Gun Violence.[4] Latarro brings performance flash mobs to different areas of the country to encourage people to stop and truly think about their stance on gun violence in the United States.
2011 The Best Is Yet To Come – 59 E 59th, New York City – 2012 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Revue; Choreographer, Director David Zippel[18]
2012 City Club, Minetta Lane Theatre, Choreographer[19]
2013 Queen Of The Night – Diamond Horseshoe Club, Paramount Hotel;[20] 2015 Drama Desk Award, Unique Theatrical Experience;[21] Choreographer, Director Christine Jones
2014 21 Chump Street – BAM, Choreographer, Director Michael Mayer[22]
2014 Jasper In Deadland – Prospect Theater Company, New York City, Choreographer, Director Brandon Ivie[23]
2014 Peter And The Wolf – BAM, Choreographer, Director Annette Jolles[24]
2015 The Odyssey – The Public Theatre, Delacorte Theater, Choreographer, Director Lear DeBessonet[25]
2015 Beaches, Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago, Illinois – Choreographer, Director Eric Shaeffer[26]