One of the delights of the past sad year has been working with Josie Bray, a director and choreographer from Boston who teaches at Emerson College. She's also a former high school student who, at 14 years old, strode into my high school English classroom and ripped the place a part with her fine work. I wrote about Josie's work as a dancer in my class in Beyond Room 109. She undertook an ambitious independent study on dance and performed an original dance for us at the end of the quarter. Since then, Josie has worked at regional and Off-Broadway theatres, and as an assistant on several national tours and the recent Broadway Revival of Ragtime.
Josie was the Co-Artistic director of the
Animus Ensemble, a Boston-based theatre company, for five years and also served
as the Executive Director of Green Street Studios, Center for Movement and
Dance. She currently teaches at Emerson College and is producing a new
musical intended for Broadway. Josie practices yoga and Pilates,
experiments in the kitchen, and spends time with her hilarious husband, Jack,
and their energetic preschooler, Redd.
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