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Joshua Bergasse
Joshua Bergasse is the Emmy Award-winning choreographer for NBC’s musical drama Smash. He received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations as well as the Astaire Award for his choreography of On the Town. On Broadway, he also choreographed the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tony, Drama Desk and OCC noms, Astaire Award) and Gigi.
He directed and choreographed the New York premiere of the re-imagined production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe. He also choreographed Sweet Charity, for which he won the prestigious Chita Rivera Award for excellence in choreography. He has choreographed a variety of musicals, including Cagney (Drama Desk, OCC, Astaire nominations, Callaway finalist), the premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Old Globe; The Honeymooners at Papermill Playhouse; the Off-Broadway production of Bomb-Itty of Errors; the national and international tours of Fame: the Musical; West Side Story at the Stratford Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Fulton Theatre and North Carolina Theatre; The Royal Family of Broadway, Guys and Dolls, Carousel and The World Goes Round at Barrington Stage Company, and many others.
Josh’s choreography has been featured on Monsterland on Hulu, Jessica Jones for Netflix, the feature film Grown Ups 2 with Adam Sandler, and the PBS special A Capitol Fourth. He directed and choreographed the PBS special The Kennedy Center at 50. He has choreographed multiple times for Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance and he choreographed the Marvel series Hawkeye on Disney+.
At Carnegie Hall, his credits as a choreographer include Candide, The Sound of Music and Guys and Dolls. He choreographed the televised special Sinatra: Voice for a Century” with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, American Songbooks: Fascinatin’ Rhythm also at Lincoln Center. Josh was chosen to help celebrate Bernstein’s 100th birthday by staging On the Town for the National Symphony in DC and on the famous Intrepid, and West Side Story for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.
Josh is a New York-based choreographer as well as a master teacher and has been a member of the Broadway Dance Center (BDC) faculty since 1998. Josh is also the artistic director for the Musical Theater Performance Project at BDC. He has been a guest artist at New York University, Marymount Manhattan College, Indiana University, James Madison University, Shenandoah University, Kean University, Creighton University and the University of California Satellite Program.
Upcoming Broadway projects include the new musicals A Crossing, which was previously produced at Barrington Stage, Smash: A New Musical, and Joy, the life of Joy Mangano based on the film of the same name.
He directed and choreographed the New York premiere of the re-imagined production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe. He also choreographed Sweet Charity, for which he won the prestigious Chita Rivera Award for excellence in choreography. He has choreographed a variety of musicals, including Cagney (Drama Desk, OCC, Astaire nominations, Callaway finalist), the premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Old Globe; The Honeymooners at Papermill Playhouse; the Off-Broadway production of Bomb-Itty of Errors; the national and international tours of Fame: the Musical; West Side Story at the Stratford Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Fulton Theatre and North Carolina Theatre; The Royal Family of Broadway, Guys and Dolls, Carousel and The World Goes Round at Barrington Stage Company, and many others.
Josh’s choreography has been featured on Monsterland on Hulu, Jessica Jones for Netflix, the feature film Grown Ups 2 with Adam Sandler, and the PBS special A Capitol Fourth. He directed and choreographed the PBS special The Kennedy Center at 50. He has choreographed multiple times for Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance and he choreographed the Marvel series Hawkeye on Disney+.
At Carnegie Hall, his credits as a choreographer include Candide, The Sound of Music and Guys and Dolls. He choreographed the televised special Sinatra: Voice for a Century” with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, American Songbooks: Fascinatin’ Rhythm also at Lincoln Center. Josh was chosen to help celebrate Bernstein’s 100th birthday by staging On the Town for the National Symphony in DC and on the famous Intrepid, and West Side Story for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.
Josh is a New York-based choreographer as well as a master teacher and has been a member of the Broadway Dance Center (BDC) faculty since 1998. Josh is also the artistic director for the Musical Theater Performance Project at BDC. He has been a guest artist at New York University, Marymount Manhattan College, Indiana University, James Madison University, Shenandoah University, Kean University, Creighton University and the University of California Satellite Program.
Upcoming Broadway projects include the new musicals A Crossing, which was previously produced at Barrington Stage, Smash: A New Musical, and Joy, the life of Joy Mangano based on the film of the same name.