Rachael Nanyonjo
Rachael Nanyonjo is a Ugandan British director, choreographer and movement director working in the U.K. and internationally. Rachael holds a Masters in choreography from Middlesex University and a BA Honours in Dance Studies Roehampton University.
Rachael is a recipient of the One Dance UK Trailblazer Fellow in addition to being a British Council & Arts Council Artists international fund recipient. Currently she is the associate director on Retrograde at the Apollo Westend by Ryan Calais Cameron and directed by Amit Sharma. She was also the associate director on Olivier award winning Disney's Newsies at the Troubadour Theatre.
As a director she directed Recognition (a play about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor) produced by Talawa Theatre Company as their flagship show for Croydon Borough of Culture 2023, The show was nominated for four Offies – Off West End Awards including best direction and choreography and won best musical direction.
Notable works as a choreographer / movement director include Olivier award nominated Westend Hit & Broadway Transfer Misty By Arinze Kene; NETFLIX’S romcom Love at First Sight, Bernstein’s MASS at the Southbank Centre conducted by Marlin Alsop; Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind at The National Theatre England, Olivier Award winning P Word at The Bush Theatre London and James Grahams Boys From the Black Stuff at The National Theatre and Garrick Westend .
Rachael work spans from Opera, film, tv, theatre and dance having worked with the BBC, BFI, SISTER Productions, BFI, Young Vic Theatre, British Council Germany, Old Vic, The Royal Court London & Liverpool, Theater Dortmund Germany.
She is movement consultant for the Old Vic developing project for the education & community department.
Pronouns: She/her
Contact: info@rachaelnanyonjo.com