Trinity Rep: Toby Darling, The Inheritance, Charles Darnay, A Tale of Two Cities, Anthony Hope, Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, Booker T. Washington, Ragtime, Suffolk, By the Queen, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Oklahoma!, A Christmas Carol. Regional: Tiny Beautiful Things, Chester Theatre Company; Dames at Sea (IRNE nomination), Greater Boston Stage Company; Kiss of the Spider Woman (IRNE nomination), Lyric Stage; Candide, Quantum Theatre; The Scottsboro Boys, SpeakEasy Stage; A Chorus Line, New Bedford Festival; The Gamm Theatre, Ivoryton Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre By The Sea, West Virginia Public, The Hanover Theatre, Pittsburgh Music Theatre, Peach State Summer Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: “Wu-Tang: An American Saga”, Spirited. Off-Broadway Choreography: Movement director, Pericles, Classic Stage/Fiasco Theater. Regional Directing/Choreography: La Cage aux Folles, Trinity Rep; Boulevard of Bold Dreams, Greater Boston Stage Company; The Little Mermaid, Reagle Music Theatre; Ain’t Misbehavin’, Peach State Summer Theatre; Pippin, Jean’s Playhouse; Seussical, Pittsburgh Playhouse; A Chorus Line, Arundel Barn Playhouse. Regional Choreography: A Christmas Carol (2019, 2021), Trinity Rep; The Prom (Elliot Norton nomination for Best Choreography), A Strange Loop, Speakeasy Stage; Legally Blonde, Moonbox Productions; Alice By Heart, Something Rotten!, Boston Conservatory; Emma, Actors’ Shakespeare Project; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Gamm Theatre; The Color Purple (NY regional premiere), Hair, WPPAC; Airness, University of California Santa Barbara; Kiss of the Spider Woman, Brown University; West Side Story, Chicago, Bigfork Summer Theatre. Training: Point Park University. Other: Physical theater faculty, Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program. Next, Taavon directs the Off-Broadway premiere of the new musical Upside Down, opening March 2025. www.taavongamble.com
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