Musical Theatre | Creative Team Member
Jill Marie Vallery is an award-winning dancer and choreographer of Theater, Television, and Film. She is an original cast member of the Tony Award Winning Broadway musical FELA!, where she was also the Dance Captain for its Broadway, international, and national tours. During the 2013 national tour, she was promoted to Tour Assistant Choreographer and also served as the Company Promotional Director. Additional Choreography credits include: Netflix Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Oxygen Network Fix My Choir, WGNTV Chicago, SAY YES music video with Michelle Williams featuring Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland, winner of the 2015 Stellar Award for Best Music Video, Just Do You music video (India Arie), Shadow/Land (Fault Line Theatre), LORDES (New Ohio Theatre), Cullud Wattah Associate Choreographer (Public Theater), Tsidii Le Loka Concert (Time Warner Center), and numerous student showcases. Ms. Vallery is a recipient of the Fred and Adele Astaire Award for “Outstanding Excellence on Stage”, and the Advisor Committee on Chorus (ACCA) Actors Equity Award for “Outstanding Broadway Cast.” A graduate of The Ailey School, she has worked extensively with youth throughout the United States and abroad, choreographing showcases, teaching master classes and workshops as an Ailey Arts and Education Teaching Artist. She is also a Barre3 certified instructor where she taught at their exclusive West Village studio in Manhattan, NY. Additional performance credits include Off Broadway: Tales from The Sun (Ars Nova), And My Name Ain’t Peaches (Theatre Outlet); TV: She Gotta Have It (Netflix); and Film: BlackKKKlansman (Focus Feature). Jill will be seen as Caesar Rodney in the highly anticipated upcoming Broadway revival of 1776 directed by Tony award winner Diane Paulus and is currently a movement instructor throughout NYC.