Warren Carlyle is a Tony Award winning Director and Choreographer. Most recently on Broadway he choreographed Pirates! The Penzance Musical (Todd Haimes Theater) and the revival of The Music Man (Winter Garden Theater).

Warren is a recipient of the Tony Award for Best Choreography for After Midnight, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Drama Desk Awards and the prestigious Astaire Award for choreography. He has been nominated for a further three Tony Awards, nine Drama Desk Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award and an Emmy award for Choreography.

On Broadway he directed and choreographed Harmony (Ethel Barrymore Theater); After Midnight (Brooks Atkinson Theater); Chaplin (Barrymore Theater); Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway (Broadhurst Theater); Finian’s Rainbow (St James Theatre) and A Tale of Two Cities (Al Hirschfeld Theater). Work as Choreographer includes Kiss Me Kate (Studio 54); Hello, Dolly! (Shubert Theater); She Loves Me (Studio 54), On The 20th Century (American Airlines Theater); The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, (Studio 54); A Christmas Story (Lunt Fontanne) and the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies (Marriot Marquis Theater).

Additional credits as Director include Cheyenne Jackson’s solo concert debut (Carnegie Hall); Me & My Girl and On Your Toes (City Center Encores!) and Cotton Club Parade (Jazz at Lincoln Center and City Center).

Credits as Director and choreographer include The Secret Garden (Ahmanson Theater Los Angeles); the sold-out world arena tour of Hugh Jackman’s The Man. The Music. The Show; Australian Arena Tour of Hugh Jackman’s From Broadway to Oz; the pre-Broadway tour of Hugh Jackman In Performance (also as Producer, Curran Theater San Fransisco, Princess Of Wales Theater Toronto); Limelight (La Jolla Playhouse); Buddy’s Tavern (O’Neill Theater Center, Richard Rodgers Award Winner); Lucky Guy (Goodspeed) the 40th Anniversary concert of the New York Pops and Jessica Vosk in concert (Carnegie Hall); Kristin Chenoweth in Concert (Stephen Sondheim Theater) and Harmony (Folksbeine Theater).

Work as Choreographer and Musical Staging includes Hello, Dolly! (1st national tour); The Sting (Paper Mill Playhouse); Follies (The Kennedy Center and The Ahmanson Theater Los Angeles); Camelot (Stratford Shakespeare Festival Canada); A Christmas Story (all U.S. touring companies); Harps & Angels (Mark Taper Forum Los Angeles); Mame (The Kennedy Center); Dancing In The Dark (Old Globe Theater, San Diego); The Pirates Of Penzance (Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed; CT Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography); The Bakers Wife (Goodspeed); Pageant (Second City Chicago); Carousel (Avery Fisher Hall); Girl Crazy, On The Town, Finian’s Rainbow, Juno and Stairway To Paradise (all Encores! at City Center); 101 Dalmatians (Madison Square Garden/U.S Tour); You Again (NY Fringe Festival); Working (Zipper Theater); Slut! (ATA); Roundabout 40th Anniversary Gala, Roundabout 50th Anniversary Gala and The 24 Hour Musicals (The Public Theater).

He is represented on film and television by his direction, choreography and musical staging of PBS 50th Anniversary of Great Performances (Lincoln Center); The 68th & 69th Annual Tony Awards Broadcast (CBS); Six seasons of So You Think You Can Dance (FOX); Deception (20th Century Fox); She Loves Me (Broadway HD/PBS). Also choreographed Carousel (Live At Lincoln Center) for which he received an Emmy nomination; Hope and Faith (ABC) and directed An Evening At The Boston Pops, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Rodgers & Hart (PBS) and Elton John’s music video Made In England.

In 2015 Warren directed and choreographed the New York Spring Spectacular starring the Rockettes (Radio City Music Hall). In 2018 he premiered a new ballet for New York City Ballet called Something To Dance About.