Awards & Winners

Christopher Gattelli

Christopher Gattelli is a choreographer, performer, and director for the theatre. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography for South Pacific and won the award in 2012 for Newsies. He won the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Choreography for Altar Boyz. He won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreograper for Altar Boyz and Bat Boy: The Musical. He grew up in Bristol, Pennsylvania, started dancing at the age of 11 and is a "Star Search" Grand champion. He has choreographed several special benefit concerts, including Chess, Hair, and "Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser". His work as choreographer for Broadway includes Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity, The Ritz, Sunday in the Park with George, South Pacific, 13, and Newsies. His off-Broadway choreographic work includes Adrift in Macao, How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes, I Love You Because, Altar Boyz and Bat Boy: The Musical. In regional theatre he is the choreographer for The Baker's Wife, Tom Jones, tick, tick...BOOM!, and O. Henry's Lovers. He directed Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas at The Goodspeed Opera House, Connecticut, 2008. He is the director of the musical spoof SILENCE! The Musical, which ran in 2005 at NYCFringe and is scheduled to open in London in January 2010. He is in charge of musical staging for Little Miss Sunshine.

Awards by Christopher Gattelli

Check all the awards nominated and won by Christopher Gattelli.

2012


Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography
Honored for : Newsies
Tony Award for Best Choreography
Honored for : Newsies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography
Honored for : Newsies

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography Newsies
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography Newsies
Tony Award for Best Choreography Newsies

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography South Pacific
Tony Award for Best Choreography South Pacific

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography Altar Boyz