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Lacy Darryl Phillips

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Lacy Darryl Phillips aka The Uncle Earl is an accomplished Triple Threat Performer, Multi-Award Winning Recording Artist/Songwriter/Producer, Creative Director, Choreographer, Teacher, Host & DJ.

He is a proud member of the SSDC (Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers) Most recently, Director/Choreographer Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Cape Playhouse), Director/Choreographer Iconic starring Stephanie Pope (Norwegian Jewel), Choreographer Ain’t Misbehavin’ (California Center for The Arts), Assistant Director Forever Plaid (Theatre Raleigh Arts Center), Creative Director/Choreographer Cherry House ~ The Play (Broadway Bound Theater Festival/Theater Row NYC), Choreographer/Featured Performer For All My Girls, Carnegie Hall’s 100 Years Of Black Men On Broadway, Starred as “Andre” (ICT/Long Beach) Ain’t Misbehavin’, and performed in his first show Miss Moffat with Bette Davis, at the age of 9.

Lacy toured and appeared on Broadway in Raisin starring as Travis Younger, Sophisticated Ladies starring Gregory Hines, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Anything Goes starring Patti Lupone, Sweet Charity starring Debbie Allen, Me And Mrs. Jones starring Lou Rawls & Darlene Love, Play On, Fosse and Broadway: The American Musical for PBS.

Mr. Phillips Choreographed and Staged the Nat’l Tour of The Wiz starring Grace Jones and Peabo Bryson, was Associate Director/Choreographer for the Mariah Carey ‘Around The World’ Tour and Assistant Director/Choreographer for Signed, Sealed, Delivered (A Celebration Of Stevie Wonder ) at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas starring Chaka Khan, Peabo Bryson and Melissa Manchester.

Under Mentor Debbie Allen, Lacy assisted and also performed on such projects as:

A Different World, The Academy Awards, Sammy Davis Jr. 60th Anniversary Tribute, Polly I & II for Disney and the CBS T.V. Movie Stompin’ At The Savoy featured as Teddy The M.C. and Cool Women.

Lacy participated in the inception of The Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory in New York. He is currently Director/Choreographer/Co-Producer of the upcoming musical Tramptastic, and instructor with the Verdon Fosse Legacy Project.

Creator/Producer of ‘Ultimate Underground’, a global music, arts and education project and Host/DJ of his weekly award winning radio program ‘The Underground Experience with The Uncle Earl’, now in it’s 15th successful season. www.UltimateUnderground.com