Morgan Rose
Morgan is so grateful and overjoyed to be a back at this year's Sutton Foster Awards. Broadway: School of Rock (Dance Capt/Swing); Off-Broadway: Dear Edwina (Dance Capt/Swing); National Tours: Evita Revival 1st Nat'l Tour (Swing), Shrek The Musical 1st Nat'l Tour, Elf The Musical. In addition to performing, Morgan is a passionate arts educator. You can find her teaching all around New York City and on faculty at Broadway Dance Center, Joffrey Ballet School's Musical Theatre Intensive, MTCA and AMDA. She has been incredibly fortunate to work alongside some of New York's most inspiring choreographers including Al Blackstone, Natalie Malotke, Ricky Hinds and Josh Bergasse. BFA Music Theatre Florida State University. Michigander at heart. Proud AEA Member. Love to her incredible husband, Trey, and their sweet not-so baby boy, Theo. @nycmoro
Natalie Malotke
Natalie Malotke is a director, choreographer, creative event producer and teaching artist living in New York City. Associate Directing and Choreography credits include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Choreography Team on Broadway and Second National Tour), Bygone Love for China Broadway Entertainment, Candide at Carnegie Hall, and I Married an Angel at City Center all alongside Joshua Bergasse. Little Dancer at Lincoln Center with Susan Stroman, Really Rosie at City Center with Leigh Silverman, and the developmental lab of Monopoly: The Musical with Donna Feore. Regional directing and choreography credits at Pittsburgh Music Theatre, Northern Stage, The Engeman, and Wagon Wheel Theatre and the national tour of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Live!. Resident director and choreographer for Nickelodeon Experience Design events worldwide. Industrial and corporate events for Hermès, Target, and The Robin Hood Foundation. TV: PBS, A Capitol Fourth. Faculty at Broadway Dance Center, AMDA and MTCA. University of Michigan grad.
Steven Cuevas
Steven Cuevas (he/him) is a NYC-based music director, musician, orchestrator, and arranger. Broadway: The Notebook; The Who's Tommy; Days of Wine and Roses; New York, New York; Dancin'; & Juliet; Moulin Rouge!; Tina: The Tina Turner Musical; Once On This Island; Anastasia; Kinky Boots. Select Off-Broadway: The Connector, Hell's Kitchen, Kinky Boots, Little Shop of Horrors, We Are The Tigers, Closer Than Ever. Tours: Tina, Moulin Rouge!, Once On This Island, Kinky Boots, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Spring Awakening. Regional: Eighty-Sixed (Diversionary Theatre), Macbeth in Stride (A.R.T., Shakespeare Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company). Recordings: Once On This Island, How the Grinch..., Monstersongs. Orchestrations: Macbeth in Stride, Gold Mountain. Proud member: Local 802 AFM, AEA, Recording Academy, Filipino American community. @StevenMCuevas
Brad Willcuts
Brad's credits as a director, choreographer, movement director, fight director, and assistant/associate span Broadway, National Tours, International Theaters, Regional Theaters and the Metropolitan Opera. He most recent credit was as Associate Director/Choreographer for the new Dolly Parton musical entitled Here You Come Again which got its start at Delaware Theatre Company and is now touring the United Kingdom.
Broadway and National Tour: Amazing Grace (Assistant Fight and Military Movement Director), International: Legende Holmes (Holmes the Legend) at the Karlin Theater in Prague, Czechia (Dance, Movement and Fight Assistant), Met Opera: Porgy and Bess (Assistant Violence Director), Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Kathleen Turner (Assistant Movement Director) at the Tony Award Winning Arena Stage in Washington D.C., Hello, Dolly (Director/Choreographer) at San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre. He recently choreographed the World Premiere of The Fantasticks at Flint Repertory Theatre. Brad is Associate Professor of Musical Theatre and Choreography at Michigan State University where he also serves as the Head of Acting. As a tenured professor, Brad has won multiple awards and grants including the All-University Teacher/Scholar Award, the AT&T Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award, The Fintz Award for Excellence in Teaching and multiple Catalyst Grants to continue working with new media practices for actors and dancers in the classroom.
Jonathan K. Parks
Jonathan K. Parks is a Manhattan-based music director, educator, and pianist. Broadway: Chicago. National Tours: Chicago, Young Frankenstein, The Four Phantoms in Concert. NYC: Metropolitan Opera, Big Apple Circus. Regional: Barrington Stage Company, Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse, Northern Stage, New London Barn Playhouse, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Short North Stage, Amarillo Opera. He is a proud graduate of Florida State University and has served on the faculties of New York University and Marymount Manhattan College. jonathankparks.com
Carlos L. Encinias
Carlos is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and has been a proud New Yorker since 2000. His career as an actor on Broadway spans more than two decades and includes How to Dance in Ohio, Les Miserables, Mamma Mia!, Good Vibrations and Scandalous starring Carolee Carmello, plus a run in the hit Off-Broadway production of Altar Boyz.
Carlos is a passionate educator and teaches Theatre and dance at the Professional Performing Arts High School in Manhattan and for the Dreamyard Project.
As a director, he's worked at Pittsburgh CLO, North Carolina Theatre, The Gateway and Adirondack Theatre Festival.
As a writer, his short story, Luca's Journey, has been performed at several events and on Houses On the Moon's podcast. He is currently developing Numbe Whageh with fellow New Mexican writer/actor, Jennifer Sanchez and is passionate about bringing Latin, Indigenous and Queer stories to the stage. carlosLencinias.com
