Casey Nicholaw
Casey Nicholaw
Casey Nicholawis an American theatre director, choreographer and performer. He has been nominated for Tony Awards for directing and choreographing The Drowsy Chaperoneand Something Rotten!, for choreographing Monty Python's Spamalot, and choreographing The Book of Mormon, winning for his co-direction of the latter with Trey Parker. He also was nominated for the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Direction and Choreography for The Drowsy Chaperoneand Something Rotten!and for Outstanding Choreography for Spamalot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
We've all been through that at one time or another where you escape to something that makes you not feel what you're going through. I think that's what makes people respond on an emotional level.
I'm from San Diego. My parents weren't involved in theater, but my mother encouraged my interest in it. She bought me the cassette tape to 'A Chorus Line' and she took me and a friend out of school one day and drove us up to L.A. for a matinee. Afterward, we ate in the cafeteria. I was in junior high school. She saw the direction I was going in.
I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and TV stuff, where people will see me more easily now because they know me.
I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.