Iris Wilson
Iris Wilson was an original (featured) cast member of the three time Tony award winning Broadway musical Fela! directed by Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones. Other theater credits include: Sowa’s Red Gravy directed by Woodie King Jr., performed at Castillo Theater, Wobledo directed by Tony Award winner Trazana Beverly, performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Judson Memorial Church and Dance Theater Works, The Rights of Passage performed at the Tribeca Performing Arts Theater, A Girl’s Tears on A Woman’s Face performed at Jamaica Center for the Performing Arts, The Colored Museum performed at the Old Castle Theater in Bennington, Vermont.
Iris has performed in The St. Lucia Jazz Festival with the world-renowned Afro-Beat drummer Tony Allen. She also performed in Dance Africa Denver 2014. She has recorded with Stephen Marley singing background vocals on his latest release “Made In Africa.” Her film credits include the following shorts: Earl’s Post Prison Playdate OBC productions (seen in UrbanWorld Film festival and Bossip), Love Train and Reverend M Oreh productions. Iris has performed nationally and internationally with various dance companies such as Opus Dance Theater Inc, Bouso African Dance Company, Haiti Dancsco, Dinizulu African Dancers and Drummers, KaNu Dance Theater and Fela the Musical.
As a choreographer, her work has been presented in the first Black National Dance Festival in Vienna Austria, the International Dance Festival in Costa Rica, the world’s famous Apollo Theater in New York City, the Late Night Artist series at the Pillsbury Theater in Minneapolis, Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and Dance Africa Denver. Iris is the author of two children’s books, Boys Dance Too and Fela! Let Music Be the Weapon.
She holds a master’s degree in dance education from New York University. She currently travels to Santiago De Cuba to teach, perform and collaborate with Santiago’s premier dance company Cutumba. She is the founder and artistic director of I Dance Movement a dance school for children ages 3-18 years old in Clinton Hills, Brooklyn.