Birth Place: Greensboro, North Carolina
Brion Marquis Watson is a performer based in New York City originally from Greensboro, NC where he started his dance training at The Pointe! Studio of Dance. He then went on to attend the Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where he was a Musical Theatre major before transferring to the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, where he graduated with honors. In his time at The Ailey School he had the pleasure of performing Memoria at the New York City Center, a work choreographed by Mr. Ailey himself, with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. While in school he also had the opportunity to work at The Muny in St Louis, MO consecutively every summer which gave him the opportunity to become a part of the Actors Equity Association (since 2014). Brion has had the pleasure of working with and alongside some of the best in the business such as Heather Headley, Camille A. Brown, Matthew Rushing, Clifton Brown, Matthew Morrison, and Chita Rivera just to name a few.
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