JOHN CARRAFA, is the two-time
Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Into The Woods and Urinetown:The
Musical. He also received an Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Dora
Award for Urinetown as well as nominations for Drama Desk and Outer
Critics Circle Awards. Other Broadway credits include Dirty Blonde,
Love! Valour! Compassion!, Dance of The Vampires and Dance of Death. He
directed and choreographed the Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations. He
has choreographed extensively Off-Broadway at The Public Theater,
Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater and Manhattan Theater Club
with writers Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence McNally, A.R. Gurney, Paula
Vogel and The Civilians. His choreography for the New York City Center
Encores! Series includes The Pajama Game, Out of This World and On A
Clear Day You Can See Forever. He choreographed A Little Night Music for
the Sondheim Celebration at The John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts. He has directed workshops of new musicals at Yale
Repertory Theater, American Conservatory Theater and The Kennedy Center
as well as in New York. He's choreographed over 20 films including The
Thomas Crown Affair, Bride Wars, The Last Days of Disco and The Polar
Express for which he pioneered the use of motion capture technology to
create choreography on film. For television he directed the BBC/PBS
Great Performances Thou Swell, Thou Witty: The Songs of Rogers and Hart
and was frequent choreographer for Sex and the City on HBO.