Choreographer/Director Lorin Latarro joins Behind the Awards to discuss the creation of the Chess Revival starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher. Listen for the origin story of getting Aaron Tevit’s paints on and her favorite moment of the show which happens right before One Night in Bancock.  Lorin also talks about her other bodies of work including Heart of Rock & Roll, Joy, Waitress and upcoming Idigo Girls Musical Starstuck as well as Begin Again coming to the Old Globe.

Also in this episode - Behind the Awards takes a field trip to Beaches Tech Day!

A multiple Drama Desk, Lortel, and Chita Rivera nominee, Lorin has choreographed on Broadway with Once Upon A Mattress, The Who’s Tommy, Heart Of Rock And Roll, Into The Woods, Waitress, Mrs. Doubtfire, Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber, Waiting For Godot with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, and Merrily We Roll Along at The Roundabout. Other credits: La Traviata at The Metropolitan Opera, Chess at The Kennedy Center, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street for This American Life (Brooklyn Academy of Music), The Public Theater’s The Visitor, Twelfth Night and The Odyssey (Public Works, Delacorte Theater), Oliver, Fanny and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (City Center Encores!), and A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre). Directing credits include Joy at The Laura Pels Theater starring Betsy Wolfe. Candace Bushnell’s one-woman show, Is There Still Sex In The City at the Daryl Roth Theatre (an NY Times Critic’s Pick), Begin Again with music by Train, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy: The Immersive Experience, Queen Of The Night which garnered a Drama Desk Award, The David Foster and Kat McPhee Show, #DATEME at The Westside Theatre, A Taste Of Things To Come at Chicago’s Nederlander Broadway, Swelling And Irritation by Jodi Picoult and Tim McDonald, Trails by Jeff Thompson, Christy Hall. Rodgers After Hammerstein – 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists, Beth Malone’s Three Part Harmony - Theatre Aspen. Ms. Latarro holds a BFA from The Juilliard School. She holds a secondary degree from NYU Tisch Film and Television Directing Fundamentals. Lorin has traveled to India and Africa multiple times to work with The Gates Foundation in family health and planning, and is the founder of ArtAmmmo.org Artists Against Gun Violence as seen in the NY Times, PBS, “Rachel Maddow,” BBC.

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