victoria casillo
photos by Angela Marie Orellana
VICTORIA CASILLO recently choreographed the first New York Revival of How to Steal an Election by William F. Brown at Off Broadway’s York Theatre. Her choreography has also been seen in productions of Desperate Measures (Saint Michael’s Playhouse in Burlington, Vermont), West Side Story (New Bedford Festival Theater, for which she received a Motif Magazine Theater Award), Called (by Paulo K. Tiról), and Eighth Grade President (Merkin Hall). She has twice been a featured choreographer of the New York Theater Barn’s Choreography Lab. She has also presented choreography for Leg Up on Life’s Choreographer Showcase.
A respected associate, Victoria recently served as the Associate Director/Choreographer to Donna Feore on The Griswold’s Broadway Vacation (in development), and as Associate Choreographer to JoAnn M. Hunter on A Sign of the Times (New World Stages- New York Premiere). She also worked alongside Donna Feore on the World Premiere of the Broadway-bound musical Summer Stock (Goodspeed Musicals). She cut her teeth as an associate director/choreographer alongside Bill Castellino (Cagney, Desperate Measures), with whom she has done seven musicals.
photo by Justin Patterson
Victoria is a passionate teaching artist. She teaches open classes at Broadway Dance Center, and at STEPS on Broadway Academy for Pre-Professional students. She has also worked as a Master Teacher for Turn it Up Dance Challenge, and as a guest teacher for Mary Giattino’s Stage Door School of Dance. Victoria was trained at The School at Steps on Broadway under Leslie Browne, Lisa Lockwood, Lisa Harvie, and Debbie Roshe. She received a Bachelor of Science at SUNY Empire State College. Victoria is represented by Lucille DiCampili at LDC Artist Representation.
I hope to become an inclusive leader in the arts through my work as a director and choreographer, and I want to express my commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
I believe that every project I work on should have an EDI consultant as part of the creative team. I recognize that my lived experience is one of a non-black, female human being; this is the way that I have experienced life, and this is the lens through which I will view the projects I am working on. I always want to create an equitable space and have leadership and consultants who can accurately speak to experiences that are different than my own. I want to create spaces that are better and different than some of the ones I have experienced, and I am committed to being a part of necessary change in our industry.
MY MISSION
Victoria was selected as an up and coming choreographer to participate in the inaugural
TIME STEP SYMPOSIUM!
A first-of-its-kind program bringing emerging music arranger/music directors and choreographers together to be learn from Broadway's most prolific choreographers and dance arrangers. Through mentored assignments, different teams of Broadway veterans will illuminate the process of developing original dance music in an effort to inspire and preserve this important relationship between song and dance
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