Byron Easley

Byron Easley is an Arts Professor and Co-Head of Dance at NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ New Studio on Broadway, where he also co-heads the studio’s Summer Musical Theater Intensive. He served as a Tony Awards voter for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.

Most recently, Easley choreographed Come From Away at the Guthrie Theater, All Shook Up at Goodspeed Opera House (Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination), and Tarell Alvin McCraney’s We Are Gathered at Arena Stage.

His New York choreography credits include The Jonathan Larson Project (Orpheum Theatre); Camelot (Lincoln Center Theater); Slave Play (Broadway and New York Theatre Workshop); Waiting for Godot (Theatre for a New Audience); Richard III (The Public Theater); X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation (Lucille Lortel Award nomination); The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (New York City Center Encores!); The Tempest (Classical Theatre of Harlem); and Langston in Harlem (SDC Joe A. Callaway Award and AUDELCO Award).

His work has also been represented internationally in the London production of Slave Play and the UK tour of The Ballad of Johnny & June. Additional regional credits include The Ballad of Johnny & June (La Jolla Playhouse); Choir Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre); Gun & Powder (Signature Theatre); Twelfth Night (Yale Repertory Theatre); Matilda (Olney Theatre Center; Helen Hayes Award nomination); Unison, The Wiz, and The Three Musketeers (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Five Guys Named Moe (Arena Stage; Helen Hayes Award nomination); and Jelly’s Last Jam and Sophisticated Ladies (Alliance Theatre; Suzi Bass Awards).

As a performer, Easley appeared in the Broadway companies of Fosse, Play On!, Oh, Kay! and The Tap Dance Kid, and toured nationally in productions including My One and Only with Tommy Tune. His screen appearances include the PBS Dance in America special Fosse and the PBS series Broadway: The American Musical, in addition to television specials, commercials, industrials, and film.

Prior to joining NYU Tisch Drama’s New Studio on Broadway, Easley was a full-time faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, where he taught dance.