Peggy Hickey

About Peggy

• Visiting Assistant Professor

Biography

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 also choreographed the very successful “Nurses’ Ball” episodes for eight consecutive years for ABC’s “General Hospital” and “Port Charles.” 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 most recently completed choreographing the hilarious, tongue-in-cheek “Jailhouse Tango” episode for NBC’s “Passions.”

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, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and the Julliard School, where she choreographed “Hansel und GreteL” which was subsequently televised Live From Lincoln Center on PBS. Internationally, Peggy has traveled to China to choreograph “la Cenerentola” for the Hong Kong Arts Festival; and to Finland for SALOME for the Savonlinna Opera Festival. In September 2003, Peggy made her Kennedy Center debut choreographing “Die Fledermaus” for Washington Opera, which was broadcast on PBS’ “Great Performances.”

Peggy has also choreographed for some of the country’s most distinguished regional theatres. She 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 at the Goodspeed, Peggy has choreographed “A Little Night Music” (Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography nominee) and the recent revival of “The King fo Hearts.” Other regional credits include “Gigi” for Music Theatre West (L.A. Dramalogue Award); “The King and I” for Casa Manana; “My Fair Lady” and “Carousel” for Sacramento Music Circus; and “State Fair” for Music Theatre of Wichita. Peggy was also awarded the Independent Reviewers of New England’s Award for Choreography for the Reagle Players’ production of “Singin’ in the Rain” in Massachusetts.