One of Broadway's brightest lights in the new millennium, innovative choreographer Susan Stroman made a smashing entrance to the directing ranks with the original dance drama "Contact" (which she co-created) and the revival of "The Music Man" both premiering to raves on the Great White Way in the spring of 2000. Receiving four Tony nods for directing and choreographing the two shows, she joined Michael John LaChuisa (who also garnered four nominations that year for the books and scores of "The Wild Party" and "Marie Christine") as the first quadruple honorees since Elizabeth Swados in 1978.
At age five, began to study dance, taking ballet, tap, jazz and baton twirling
As a teenager growing up in Wilmington, Delaware, played Zaneeta Shin, the Mayor's daughter, in Candlelight Community Theater production of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man"
1976
At an audition for a revival of Vincent Youmans' "Hit the Deck!", was the only one picked out of 300 dancers; earned Equity card
1977
Appeared national tour of the Bob Fosse-directed musical "Chicago"; score by John Kander & Fred Ebb; played a Hungarian accused of murdering her husband and featured in the production number "Cell Block Tango"
