Alumnus Jeffrey L. Page '19 Choreographs 'Who Could Ask For Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin'
Directing alumnus Jeffrey L. Page '19 is set to choreograph the outdoor stage production of Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin for the Barrington Stage Company. The concert will be performed a total of 25 times between June 10 and July 3, 2021 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Who Could Ask for Anything More? celebrates one of the greatest composers of the 20th Century. From I Got Rhythm, to Embraceable You, to Summertime, George Gershwin’s soaring, glorious music will lift spirits and warm hearts as it gets performed by a cast of stellar Broadway singers.
Jeffrey Page is an Emmy Award-nominated director and choreographer. He spearheaded the 2015 and 2018 Tokyo productions of the musical Memphis, which received four Yomiuri Award nominations, including Best Musical. The first African American to be named the Marcus Institute Fellow for Opera Directing at The Juilliard School, Page won an MTV Video Music Award for his work with Beyoncé. His work was featured on Beyoncé’s The Formation World Tour, in her historic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival performance, and in two of her HBO specials. Page was the associate creative director for Mariah Carey’s Sweet, Sweet Fantasy European Tour, and has been a featured choreographer on Fox Television’s So You Think You Can Dance. He currently is the creative director for singer-songwriter Jazmine Sullivan, most recently working with her on the 2020 BET Soul Train Music Awards. Page was also in the original, award-winning Broadway cast of Fela!. He worked alongside Tony Award-winning composer and adjunct associate professor Jeanine Tesori to choreograph the hit Broadway musical Violet starring Sutton Foster (Roundabout Theatre Company). In 2016, he established Movin’ Legacy as an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the ethnology and documentation of contemporary and traditional dance from Africa and the African diaspora. Currently, as co-director and choreographer, he is working with Diane Paulus '97 and the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University to mount the Broadway revival of 1776.
Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is a not-for-profit professional theatre company in the Berkshires (MA) with a three-fold mission: to produce top-notch, compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to engage the community with vibrant, inclusive educational outreach programs. The company creates theatre experiences that engage and excite audiences by entertaining as well as challenging them with the most dynamic and provocative productions possible. BSC creates a platform for new voices and diverse perspectives that drives their productions, educational programming and community engagement.