Craig Revel Horwood
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Craig Revel Horwood (born 1967) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom.
Born in Ballarat, Australia, Horwood started his career as a dancer in Melbourne, then moved to London to take advantage of the greater opportunities available there.
Horwood's West End credits include Spend Spend Spend and My One and Only, both of which garnered him Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Choreography. He was associate director/choreographer of West Side Story, assisted Bob Avian with Martin Guerre, and was resident director of Miss Saigon. He also choreographed Hard Times - The Musical, Calamity Jane, Tommy Cooper - Jus' Like That, and directed and choreographed Beautiful and Damned.
Regional theatre choreography credits include Pal Joey, Arcadia, On the Razzle, and My One and Only at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Guys and Dolls in Sheffield,Slip me a hot one in Bottomley Anything Goes and South Pacific for Grange Park Opera, and Hot Mikado at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury.
International productions include Crazy for You (South Africa), Fiddler on the Roof and Sweet Charity (Amsterdam and Holland national tour), Chess (Denmark), Bonheur (Paris), Copacabana (Denmark, Der Kuhhandel (Austria), and Glanzlichter (Berlin).
Horwood directed the opening ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and staged Once Upon a Time - The Life of Hans Christian Andersen, a live concert in Copenhagen to mark the author's bicentenary that was televised worldwide.
Horwood is familiar to British television audiences as a member of the judging panel on both the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and Comic Relief does Fame Academy. He has a reputation for being the harshest of the Strictly Come Dancing judges and is often the recipient of good-natured booing from the studio audience. On top of all this, he attracted widespread criticism for his apparent bias towards Emma Bunton in the fourth series of the competition.[1]
Horwood was a judge on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, along with Lesley Garrett, and Richard Park. In May and June 2007 he appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Masterchef, reaching the final alongside Nadia Sawalha and Midge Ure.
Horwood recently choreographed the play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, starring Claire Bloom and Billy Zane at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He is also a judge on Dancing with the Stars in New Zealand, along with Brendan Cole, who he regularly clashes in opinions with. He is also directing the Welsh Premiere Concert Production of My Land's Shore [2] which will premiere in Cardiff soon.
In his new biography Horwood reveals that he turned to prostitution at the age of 17 and made money by appearing as a drag queen in bars and clubs.[1]
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