Stacey Flaster is an award-winning director and choreographer with extensive experience in both musical theater and film. Most recently, she assistant-directed and choreographed Les Misérables for Uptown Music Theater of Highland Park. In 2021, she directed the critically acclaimed Ragtime for Music Theater Works, where she also directed The Little Mermaid. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards.

 

She directed Hair and Ragtime for Big Noise Theatre, earning Broadway World Awards for Best Director and Best Musical. She also directed and choreographed the Jeff Award-winning production of A Class Act for Porchlight Music Theatre. Additional directing credits include Godspell, Little Shop of Horrors, The Wiz, Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway World Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography), Footloose, Cats (Jeff Nomination for Best Choreography), and A Wonderful Life at Theatre at the Center; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Route 66 at Paramount Theatre; Married Alive at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre; and Cabaret, Carousel, and The Secret Garden at Light Opera Works.

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As a choreographer, her credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Jeff Nomination, Theatre at the Center), Miss Saigon and Something’s Afoot at Drury Lane Oakbrook, Willy Wonka at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Marriott Theatre, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Noble Fool Theatricals, The Spitfire Grill and Smoke on the Mountain at Provision Theater, Master Harold…and the Boys at Steppenwolf Theatre, and Madame X with Alley Cat Productions.

 

Flaster also worked on the feature film The Dilemma, directed by Ron Howard, and has choreographed numerous national television commercials.  She is the co-owner of The Performer’s School and the co-host of Podcandy, a podcast exploring cults, crimes, and killers, available wherever you get your podcasts.