Robert Longbottom is a dancer, choreographer, and director, primarily for the stage. He has received a Tony Award

Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...

 nomination for his choreography.

Longbottom conceived, directed, and choreographed the musical Pageant, which was presented off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...

 at the Blue Angel in 1991. He directed and choreographed the US national tour of the Walt Disney Company musical On the Record, starring Emily Skinner

Emily Skinner

Emily Skinner is an American musical theatre actress and singer. She has performed in such Broadway shows as Side Show, James Joyce's The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight and, currently, in Billy Elliot...

. He has participated in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals in 2008, directing Beatsville.

He is director and choreographer of a Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie that began previews September 10, 2009, and is scheduled for a limited run from October 15, 2009, to January 24, 2010. He is director of the Dreamgirls tour beginning performances on November 6, 2009 at the Apollo Theater

Apollo Theater

The Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the most famous, and older, music halls in the United States, and the most famous club associated almost exclusively with Black performers...

.

Work (selected)

• Side Show
  Side Show
  Side Show is a musical about Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who make a change from being a circus act to becoming famous stage performers in the 1930s. The show was written by Bill Russell and Henry Krieger . The show starred Alice Ripley as Violet and Emily Skinner as Daisy...
  
  (1997) - director and choreographer
• Flower Drum Song
  Flower Drum Song
  Flower Drum Song was the eighth stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It was based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. The piece opened in 1958 on Broadway and was afterwards presented in the West End and on tour...
  
  (revival, 2002, Tony Award nomination)
• On the Record (2004) - US tour
• Mister Roberts
  Mister Roberts (play)
  Mister Roberts is a 1948 play based on the 1946 Thomas Heggen novel of the same name.The novel began as a collection of short stories about Heggen's experiences aboard the USS Virgo in the South Pacific during World War II...
  
  (2005) - Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, director
• Hay Fever
  Hay Fever
  Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924 and first produced in 1925 with Marie Tempest as the first Judith Bliss. Laura Hope Crews played the role in New York...
  
  (2007) - Old Globe Theatre
  Old Globe Theatre
  The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons...
  
  , San Diego, California
  San Diego, California
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  , director
• Carnival (2007) - Kennedy Center, director and choreographer

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing
• Credits at AmericanTheatreWIng.org as of July 2007]
• Credits at Broadwayworld.com