BIO
SEAN MCKNIGHT's New York performance credits include Curtains (Broadway), Merrily We Roll Along (Encores!/new cast recording), Girl Crazy (Encores!), Stairway to Paradise (Encores!), Fifty Million Frenchmen, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. He as been seen in the Equity National Tours of: Shrek the Musical, The Producers, 42nd Street, Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt, Annie Get Your Gun (Tommy Keeler), A Christmas Story the Musical and Roundabout Theatre Company’s national tour of Anything Goes. At the Kennedy Center he has had the privilege to perform in Ragtime, Carnival! and Mame!
As a director/choreographer he made his NYC debut with Broadway Classics at Carnegie Hall. The sold-out concert starred Cheyenne Jackson and Carolee Carmello. In Los Angeles his work on Hot Mikado earned him Best Choreography nominations for both the LA Drama Critics Circle Award and the LA Stage Alliance Ovation! Award. Other choreographic credits include: Dance Austria! - The Big Waltz at Lincoln Center, A Chocolate Avenue Christmas at the Hershey Lodge, Broadway Bares, Gypsy of the Year, Easter Bonnet, and Dance from the Heart. As an Associate Choreographer he has worked at Ford’s Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Westchester Broadway Theatre, White Plains Performing Arts Center, Red Mountain Theatre Company and Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre. Mr. McKnight served as the co-associate director/choreographer to Kathleen Marshall on the NETworks Theatricals National Tour of Anything Goes. Most recently he choreographed the new Ansolo music video “To Life” featuring the band Too Many Zooz.
He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan and is currently on faculty at Pace University.