Raja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, director, writer, and the Artistic Director of the dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory, for which he has created 18 premieres, most recently The Absolute Future at NYU Skirball. The company’s next premiere will be at The Invisible Dog in 2025. His off-broadway choreography can currently be seen in the musical TEETH, written by Michael R. Jackson And Anna K. Jacobs, directed by Sarah Benson at New World Stages. Other credits include The Fires, written and Directed by Raja Feather Kelly at Soho Rep, White Girl in Danger at the Second Stage Kiser Theater, written by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. He also choreographed Jackson’s Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon) and was the winner of two Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In addition to Jackson and Blain-Cruz, his Off-Broadway collaborators include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Sarah Benson. Among many recent works are the Pulitzer Prize-winning production Fairview In addition to TEETH, current projects include Broadway’s Lempicka, the OPERA,The Listeners. by Missy Mizzoli and Royce Vavarek, and Macbeth In Stride by Whitney White. Recent company works include The Untitled Brahms/Radiohead Project, Bunny Bunny, and Scenes for an Ending for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. His accolades include Princeton Arts Fellowship, three Princess Grace Awards, an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle honor, a Creative Capital award, and many others.
