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Fine Arts Division
   
 

Bill Szobody

 

Bill has been a professor of dance at Pepperdine University for four years and has directed their dance program, DANCE IN FLIGHT, for the past three years. He is also a guest teacher for the UCLA School of theater, film, and television and teaches for their US Performing Arts camp. Bill has taught dance for the past 18 years; and, has choreographed for various dance companies as well. While living in the Chicago area, he co-directed an educational dance program for elementary students and danced in a modern dance company, DANCESCAPE. Bill has performed on professional stages across the globe, including the Spain dance tour, Tokyo Disneyland, and the New York Radio City Music Hall. On Broadway, he appeared in the original cast of the revival of CABARET, the Johnny Mercer review DREAM, and in Lincoln Centers’ Tony award winning PARADE. He danced in the national tour of MARTIN GUERRE, where at the Ahmanson Theater, he played the role of Benoit. Choreography credits include: ANYTHING GOES, THE MUSIC MAN, and MAN OF LA MANCHA at Pepperdine University; THE WILD PARTY, TRIUMPH OF LOVE and THE COLE PORTER REVUE, at UCLA; FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Oklahoma Lyric Theater; CALAMITY JANE, Sierra Repertory Theatre; SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, Westchester Broadway Theatre; CRAZY FOR YOU, Peninsula Players. He also acted as Pat Birch’s assistant choreographer on the Broadway National Tour of PARADE.