![]() Page’s current projects are Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill with Philadelphia Theatre Company and Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Westport Country Playhouse, following a successful co-production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Geva Theatre Center. He is the Artist Fellow at the American Repertory Theater and the Resident Artist at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Page is a lecturer in Theatre, Dance, and Media at Harvard University and the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School. Page received a Fulbright-Hays Program award for this research work. In 2016, Page 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. ![]() In 2021, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Muhlenberg College. In 2019, he was awarded the Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellowship by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. While obtaining his MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, Page became the first African American to be named the Marcus Institute Fellow for Opera Directing at The Juilliard School. 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 is the creative director for singer-songwriter Jazmine Sullivan, most recently working with her on the 2020 BET Soul Train Music Awards. 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 won an MTV Video Music Award for his work with Beyoncé, whose creative team have included him for more than 12 years. His Tokyo productions of Memphis (2015, 2018) and Jamie (2021) garnered multiple Yomiuri Award nominations, including Best Musical in Japan. His Barrington Stage production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ earned a NYTimes Critic’s Pick and multiple Berkshire Theatre Awards. Page was choreographer on the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Violet. He is the co-director and choreographer of the Broadway revival of 1776, now on national tour. Page is an Emmy-nominated director and choreographer. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild, the Society des Auteur et Compositeurs Dramatiques, and the Writers Guild, East. His first novel is to be published in 2024. Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Old Globe, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, Theatre de la Huchette, Theatre Petit Montparnasse, Theatre Silvia Montfort, Westside Arts Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Virginia Stage, the Walnut Street Theatre, West Side Arts Theater, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His works have been produced at the Alley Theatre, the Alliance Theatre Annenberg Center, Arena Stage, Barrington Stage, the Edinburgh Festival, Festival d’Avignon, George St. Many of his works are about iconic artists and the societal issues they faced: Nasty Little Secret (Joe Orton) Woman Before a Glass (Peggy Guggenheim) Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe (Georgia O’Keeffe) Nobody Lonesome for Me (Hank Williams) The Gardener (Claude Monet) and Blythe Coward (Noel Coward). His play about Billie Holiday Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill was produced on Broadway and in London’s West End with Audra McDonald. ![]() His first plays, The Insanity of Mary Girard and Back County Crimes are frequently performed by schools and community theatres. ![]()
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