Choreographer | Will Tuckett

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Will Tuckett is an award-winning choreographer, dancer, and director of theater, opera, and film. Trained at The Royal Ballet School, he was a member of The Royal Ballet from 1990–2005, working as a choreographer and dancer. He is now a Principal Guest Artist. He has choreographed for all the major UK dance companies, including companies in Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, and China.

In 2006, he was made the first ROH2 Creative Associate for The Royal Opera House, responsible for devising and delivering an innovative series of works for new and family audiences. These have now been seen within the Opera House and on tour in the UK and abroad. Films of his productions include Pinocchio (BBC), Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale (WowWow TV Japan), and Elizabeth (Sky Arts).

Awards include the Cosmopolitan Dance Award, The Ursula Moreton Award for Choreography (twice), the Jerwood Foundation Award for Choreography, and the Varna International Competition Award for Best Choreography. His production of The Wind in the Willows transferred into the West End in 2013 and won the 2014 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. He was the Artistic Associate of The Royal Opera House 2007-2011 and was the Clore Dance Fellow 2008-2010. He also directs theater, opera, musical theater, and film, including work for The Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, Almeida Theatre, Sage Gateshead, the Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Modern, Tate Tanks, The National Gallery, the BBC, and Channel 4.

Most recently, Tuckett directed and choreographed the full-length dance/drama Elizabeth for The Royal Ballet, which is touring internationally through the summer of 2017, directed Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri for Garsington Opera, and choreographed Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate for Opera North and Welsh National Opera, currently touring throughout the UK.

His most recent work was a new full-length Pinocchio for the National Ballet of Canada.