Parker Esse

Parker Esse is a multi-award-winning, and story-driven director/choreographer. After performing regionally, in national tours, and as a featured performer on Broadway in the Tony Award winning Fosse, he began collaborating exclusively on multiple Regional and Broadway shows as an associate director/choreographer including Broadway’s Tony Nominated Finian’s Rainbow and A Tale of Two Cities, as well as five Encores! productions (NY City Center).

As Choreographer, Parker exploded onto the scene with the groundbreaking/reimagined Oklahoma! (Arena Stage) and Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis’ A Bed and a Chair directed by John Doyle (NY City Center Encores!). He has directed/choreographed for numerous NYC, Regional and International Theatres. He is an eight-time Helen Hayes Nominee for Best Choreography, winning for Arena Stage’s Oklahoma! , The Pajama Game starring Donna McKechnie and recently for Anything Goes starring Corbin Bleu.

Recent director and/or choreographer credits include: the highly acclaimed revisal of Rags (Goodspeed); La Traviata (The Kennedy Center’s WNO); pre-Broadway Toronto engagement of Jukebox Hero featuring Foreigner’s Greatest Hits (Ed Mirvish Theatre); pre-Broadway world premiere of Love And Other Fables (Theatre By The Sea); 45 Minutes From Coontown (York Theatre Co.); The Buddy Holly Story (Casa Manana); Lyrics & Lyricists Celebrates Oklahoma! at 75 (92nd St. Y); and most recently the record- breaking Newsies (Arena Stage). BFA NYU Tisch, Cap21 Alumni.