Wendy Seyb

Personal Information
Wendy Seyb created the choreography for the award winning show The Toxic Avenger Musical that started its journey at the George Street Playhouse. Toxic subsequently enjoyed a successful Off-Broadway run at New World Stages and spawned an international production in Toronto. Toxic received the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical and Wendy was nominated for the Joe A. Callaway Award for Best Choreography for the Off-Broadway production of Toxic. Other theatre highlights include: Walmartopia (Off-Broadway), TheatreWorksUSA’s Click Clack Moo (Off-Broadway/Tour), Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live! (Tour/Radio City), Harry Connick Jr.’s The Happy Elf (Regional: Todd Wehr Theater), AND The World Goes ‘Round (Regional: Prince Music Theater), Mel And El: Show And Tell (Ars Nova), But I’m A Cheerleader (Theatre at St. Clements) and Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical (Kraine Theater). Her choreography has also been seen in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, The New York International Fringe Festival, the A-Train Plays and the workshop of the theatrical event Cheer with Richard Frankel Productions. Wendy Seyb’s original dance comedies, including the full-length School Daze, have been presented at esteemed New York venues such as Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo, The Flea Theater, 37 ARTS, HERE Arts Center, The Zipper Theater, St. Mark’s Church, The Duke Theater and the Ailey Citigroup Theater. In 2007 and 2008 Wendy co-created and co-hosted Freshly Tossed, an evening of new and innovative dance comedy choreography from a range of dance artists that was presented by the New York Music Theater Festival. Wendy is proud to have contributed choreography to many prestigious events including: the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, DanceBreak and the Dancers Responding to AIDS Gala hosted by Bill T. Jones. In 2006, Wendy was the recipient of a Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership where she worked under the tutelage of Kathleen Marshall as she mounted the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The Pajama Game. Wendy received the 2007 Golden Nose Award for her dance comedy Super Novas and was a 2007 nominee for the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Choreography/Movement for her work on the physical play The Great Conjurer.
 
Credits

Choreographer
Production Theatre Opened Credit
1 Murder For Two McGinn-Cazale Theatre 07/25/2013 Movement
2 It Must Be Him Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater 09/01/2010 Choreographer
3 Click, Clack, Moo Lucille Lortel Theatre 07/28/2009 Choreographer
4 The Toxic Avenger New World Stages/ Stage I 04/06/2009 Choreographer
5 Walmartopia Minetta Lane Theatre 09/03/2007 Choreographer
Awards
Award Production Function
1 NOMINATED 2010 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Choreographer The Toxic Avenger Choreographer
2 NOMINATED 2010 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Choreographer Click, Clack, Moo Choreographer
3 NOMINATED 2009 Joe A. Callaway Award (SDCF), Excellence in Choreography The Toxic Avenger Choreographer