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Alex Sanchez

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Alex Sanchez is a New York City based Director, Choreographer and Educator. Upcoming choreographic projects include: Florencia En Las Amazonas for THE MET OPERA, The Gardens of Anuncia, LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE and The Jerusalem Syndrome for THE YORK THEATER. Prior to his Broadway career Alex was a soloist ballet dancer with Ballet Chicago for four seasons, ballet guest artist for The Ruth Page Ballet, The Festival Ballet, Southern Ballet Theater, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Company and The Chicago Rep Dance Ensemble.

In New York Alex performed in 10 Broadway shows and was in the original cast of Fosse, The Red Shoes, Carousel LTC revival, Big The Musical, Follies Roundabout Theater revival, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Chita Rivera A Dancers Life. Other Broadway shows, Love! valor! Compassion!, Once Upon A Mattress and Wonderful Town. As a director/choreographer, he helmed the musicals ON YOUR FEET for Paper Mill Playhouse. JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT for Maine State Theater. SWEET CHARITY, NEWSIES and EVITA for The Marriott Theater in Chicago. IN THE MOOD, Bud Forrest Entertainment/international/national tour. THE WORLD GOES ROUND, NYC Riverside Theater. Alex was the Musical Stager for the Broadway production of PARADISE SQUARE. He also choreographed the pre Broadway musical, ROMAN HOLIDAY for GFI productions.

Other New York choreographic credits: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizon, New York City Center Encores!, and Amas Musical Theater. Regional choreographic credits: The Goodman Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Williamstown Theater Festival, Guthrie Theater, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater,The Marriott Theatre, Berkshire Theater Group, Glimmerglass Opera, St. Louis Muny, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Kansas City Starlight, Pittsburgh CLO, Riverside Theater, Woodminster Amphitheater and SDC Dancebreak. As an educator Alex was on staff with The New Jersey Ballet School and Oakland School for the Arts. He taught master classes in Tokyo Japan for Carewaves, Mexico City for Dansing, Southern Methodist University Dance Department, Pace University and NYU Tisch Musical Theater Department, Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center and The Peridance Center. Alex is the 2022 winner of The Jeff Award for best choreography, 2015 co-recipient of the SDC Joe A. Calloway Award for Best Choreography. Two time winner of the Broadway World Award 2011 & 2012. He has been nominated for an Outer Critic Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Connecticut Critic Circle Award and nine Joseph Jefferson Awards and 2022 SDC Breakout Award Finalist. He was also honored by Dance Magazine 25 to watch 2016.