Kelly Todd Choreographer, Legacy Member

Artist Profile

Professor of Theater at Pepperdine University and Ovation Award Winner for Best Choreography for her work on Lysistrata Jones at the Chance Theater, where she was a resident artist. Some of her favorite credits there have been West Side Story, for which she received the LA Drama Critic’s Circle 2012 Special Award for Fight Choreography, and Triassic Parq, in 2013 and Jerry Springer: The Opera, in 2011 which both won the Ovation Award for Best Musical in an Intimate Theater and garnered her Ovation Award Nominations for Best Choreography. She was named Southern California’s Choreographer of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by Stage Scene LA. Other credits include Sweeney Todd, Once and Light in the Piazza at South Coast Repertory, The Who’s Tommy at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and two world premieres, Keep Movin’ On, featuring the music of Sam Cooke, and What’s Going On, featuring the music of Marvin Gaye.

Productions at Chance Theater

Production Date Role
Ragtime June 2019 Choreographer
Big Fish June 2018 Choreographer
Fancy Nancy, The Musical: 2016 May 2016 Director
Hairspray July 2015 Choreographer
Fancy Nancy, The Musical: 2015 May 2015 Director
Loch Ness, a new musical January 2015 Choreographer
In The Heights July 2014 Choreographer
Lysistrata Jones February 2014 Choreographer
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson July 2013 Choreographer
Triassic Parq: The Musical January 2013 Choreographer
West Side Story July 2012 Choreographer
Anne of Green Gables (2011) November 2011 Choreographer
Jerry Springer: The Opera July 2011 Choreographer
The Who’s Tommy February 2011 Choreographer
Nerve January 2011 Choreographer
Merrily We Roll Along February 2010 Choreographer
Hair
 The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical July 2009 Leata / Understudy Mom
Hair
 The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical July 2009 Choreographer
The Girl, The Grouch, 
and The Goat April 2009 Choreographer
Anne of Green Gables – The Musical December 2008 Choreographer
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues – 5th Anniversary! December 2008 Dancer
Evita August 2008 Choreographer
Anne of Green Gables, The Musical November 2007 Co-Director / Choreographer
I Love You, You’re Perfect, 
Now Change January 2007 Director & Choreographer
Into the Woods July 2006 Understudy Rapunzel
Into the Woods July 2006 Choreographer
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing February 2006 Director & Choreographer
The World Goes ‘Round September 2005 Director & Choreographer
Big Love July 2005 Choreographer
Cabaret June 2005 Choreographer
Closer than Ever January 2005 Choreographer