Faculty
Lynne Kurdziel Formato is an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts. Prior to her appointment here, she developed and directed the BFA in Music Theatre at the University at Buffalo. Lynne also serves on the Executive Committee of MTEA - Music Theatre Educators Alliance International.
As a professional Director/Choreographer, Lynne is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) and has more than 300 productions to her credit, including Aida, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Blood Brothers, Sound of Music, Guys and Dolls, The Merry Widow, The King and I, Copacabana, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Swing!, Anything Goes, Grease, Forever Plaid, Smokey Joe's Café, The World Goes Round, Cole and The Full Monty, as well as the season's upcoming Joseph and the Amazing ... at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y.; West Side Story (Tennie Award for Choreography), Evita and Ain't Misbehavin' for the Tennessee Repertory Theatre in Nashville; choreography for A Chorus Line, The Full Monty, My Fair Lady and Tommy (direction and choreography) for the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock; six seasons of Christmas in The Smokies for Dollywood Theme Park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.; On the Town for the University of the Arts at the Merriam Theatre in Philadelphia; South Pacific for the Heritage Repertory Theatre in Virginia; and more than 20 productions for the University at Buffalo including the first regional production of Andrew Lippa's Wild Party.
Lynne is a 16-time nominee and five-time recipient of the Buffalo, N.Y., Artvoice Artie Award in the areas of direction and choreography, received the 2004 Artvoice Career Achievement Award, a 2006 Katherine Cornell Award for her choreographic work on Musicalfare’s Urinetown, the 2005 Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Buffalo, and was named the 1996 "Individual Artist of the Year" by the Buffalo and Erie County Council on the Arts. Lynne was co-recipient of the Elon College Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2007.
Lynne also is an accomplished performer and a member of the Actor's Equity Association (Lynne Van Remmen). Her most recent on-stage credit was at Universal Studios Florida where she was part of the 1990 opening team of actors.
In Fall 2008, Lynne traveled to Moscow as an invited music theatre specialist for their third annual Music Theatre Festival, where she taught a week of master classes to students and professionals from across Russia. Lynne has taught master classes in theatre dance for organizations across the United States, including Dance Master of America National Teachers Training School, Gus Giordano's World Jazz Dance Congress and the Southeast Theatre Conference.
Here at Elon, Lynne directed and choreographed Nine and Cabaret and served as choreographer for The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Urinetown and Carousel. She also is one of the founders of the New Musical Project, directing its first two presentations.
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