Email:

dg1@iu.edu

Department:

Musical Theatre

Education

• M.F.A., Drama, University of California, Irvine
• B.A., Video Art, University of California, San Diego

DJ Gray is a Professor of Practice, and Associate Area Head for the B.F.A. Musical Theatre program at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. DJ directs and choreographs Internationally, Nationally, and for IU’s mainstage productions, as well as IU Summer Theatre (IUST). She also teaches Pilates and GYROTONIC for a private studio in Bloomington.

DJ is a performer, director and choreographer. She performed on Broadway in The Producers and was the Associate Choreographer with the Tony Award winning show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, (On and Off-Broadway, Non-Equity National Tour), and Associate Choreographer with Tony nominated XANADU (Broadway and National Tour). She assisted staging Sondheim on Sondheim (Studio 54) and Merrily We Roll Along, (Encores!). Internationally, DJ served as an assistant Choreographer for 42nd Street in Seoul, Korea, and Associate choreographer for Xanadu in Japan.

For Regional Theatre, she has enjoyed both directing and choreographing at Barrington Stage, North Shore, McCoy and Rigby, Northern Stage, Candlelight Pavilion, Musical Theater West, Moonlight Stage, and Florida Studio Theater.

TV choreography credits includes the Emmy nominated Stephen Colbert’s Christmas Special, and the episode “Dance Party”. She choreographed for the reality TV show Instant Beauty Pageant, several episodes for the Emmy award winning series The New Electric Company, NBC’s The Year Without a Santa Claus, and a live action show for Adult Swim, “Fat Guy Stuck in the Internet”. DJ made and appearance on The View, teaching Whoopi Goldberg the material she was to perform for her debut performance in Xanadu on Broadway.

Recent Credits

Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show
IU Theatre — Choreographer

Merrily We Roll Along
IU Theatre — Choreographer

Legally Blonde
IU Theatre — Director

Reefer Madness
IU Theatre — Choreographer

The Prom
IU Theatre — Co-Director / Choreographer

Head Over Heels
IU Theatre — Director, Choreographer

Forever Plaid
IU Summer Theatre — Choreographer

Into the Woods
IU Summer Theatre — Director, Choreographer

Something Rotten!
IU Theatre — Director, Choreographer

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
IU Summer Theatre — Director, Choreographer

Uncle Play
IU Theatre — Choreographer

The Threepenny Opera
IU Theatre — Choreographer

Closer Than Ever
IU Summer Theatre — Director, Choreographer

Little Women
IU Theatre — Choreographer

Crazy for You
IU Theatre — Co-Director, Choreographer

Big Fish
IU Theatre — Choreographer

Little Shop of Horrors
IU Summer Theatre — Choreographer

Wonderful Town
IU Theatre — Choreographer