Award-winning choreographer, Peggy Hickey is one of the most versatile choreographers today, working extensively in television, film, theatre, and opera. Peggy was awarded the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography for her work on Grammy-Award winner Beck’s THE NEW POLLUTION. She is currently working on HART OF DIXIE for the CW Television network which airs this fall. Peggy also choreographed the very successful “SPRING AWAKENING” for the current hit series 90210 as well as the episode “SO I THOUGHT I COULD DANCE” for Christina Applegate’s series SAMANTHA WHO? Peggy was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Dance Sequence in a Feature Film for her work on the box-office hit, THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE for Paramount. Peggy worked as well on the “NURSES BALL” episodes on GENERAL HOSPITAL for eight consecutive seasons and also on the tongue in cheek “JAIL HOUSE TANGO” for ABC’s PASSIONS.
Equally at home on stage, Peggy has also choreographed for many of the country’s most distinguished theatres. Broadway credits include: MY FAIR LADY starring Kelli OHara, Kelsey Grammar and Brian Dennehey, at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA starring Paul Sorvino for New York City Opera and LUCKY TO BE ME, THE MUSIC OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN also for NYCO. Ms. Hickey collaborated last season with Monty Python’s Eric Idle on AN EVENING WITHOUT MONTY PYTHON which played in both New York and LA.
Peggy is a two-time recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography for BRIGADOON and ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY at the renowned Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. Also for Goodspeed, Peggy has choreographed KING OF HEARTS, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, AMOUR and the recent revival of CARNIVAL. Along with OKLAHOMA! at the Papermill Playhouse, regional credits include THE MUSIC MAN starring Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy for Hartford’s Bushnell Theater, GIGI and A FUNNY THING HAPPENED AT THE FORUM for LA’s REPRISE THEATER along with many productions for MUSIC Theater Of Wichita, Sacramento Music Circus and Casa Manana to name a few.
Peggy also works extensively in opera, and has collaborated with such renowned artists as Placido Domingo, Samuel Ramey, Denyce Graves, Susan Graham, and Franco Zeffirelli among others. Her work has been performed at Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and the Julliard School, where she choreographed HANSEL UND GRETEL with sets and costumes by Maurice Sendak which was subsequently televised Live From Lincoln Center on PBS. Internationally, Peggy has traveled to China to choreograph LA CENERENTOLA and BALLO EN MASCHARA for the Hong Kong Arts Festival; and to Finland for DON GIOVANNI and SALOME for the Savonlinna Opera Festival.
7/26/11
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