Ensemble Bios

Valerie Moore

This season at the Shaw Festival, Ms Valerie Moore is choreographer Ragtime.

Valerie’s Shaw credits also include choreographer for J.M. Barrie’s The Admirable Crichton, movement sequence designer for Linda Griffiths’ Age of Arousal, choreographer for the Noël Coward trio Brief Encounters, choreographer for the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, director of the concert production of Follies: In Concert, choreographer and associate director of the musical Gypsy, director of Merrill Denison’s The Weather Breeder (Bell Canada Reading Series), co-director and choreographer of On the Twentieth Century and choreographer of Merrily We Roll Along.

She has served as consultant choreographer for CTV’s So You Think You Can Dance Canada, choreographer for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, as a faculty member of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre and recently directed Side by Side by Sondheim for London’s Grand Theatre.

Valerie has worked at theatres across Canada as a choreographer and director. Selected credits include A Christmas Carol, Rock and Roll, Little Shop of Horrors and Dancing in Poppies (The Grand Theatre); Cabaret, Berlin to Broadway (A Kurt Weill retrospective) (Theatre Calgary); Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (The Grand Theatre/National Arts Centre); Anything That Moves, Midnight Sun, Pal Joey, The Colored Museum (Tarragon Theatre); Susannah, La Traviata (Opera Ontario); Emily (The Musical) (Charlottetown Festival); Assassins (Berkeley Street Theatre); Herringbone, Health, Rock and Roll (Vancouver Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, and The Cherry Orchard (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Additionally, she has worked at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winter Garden Theatre, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Theatre Français, National Arts Centre, Neptune Theatre and Centaur Theatre, to name a few.

Valerie’s selected television and film credits include HBO’s Sugartime, the Juno Awards and Jim Carrey’s Unnatural Act.