About
Connor Gallagher is a director and choreographer based in Brooklyn. He is best known for choreographing the Broadway adaptation of Beetlejuice, as well as for directing and choreographing The Big Gay Jamboree, for which he received the 2025 Lortel Award. He earned a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for direction for his production of Titanic, which Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune praised as having “more emotional intensity and existential gravitas than any other time I’ve seen this particular show.”
His world-premiere stage adaptation of Moana is currently running aboard the Disney Treasure, along with a new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which has been playing for a decade; both productions are recipients of Brass Ring Honors. He received an Astaire Award for his work on the Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Robber Bridegroom and is the director of the upcoming stage adaptation of Zootopia for Disney Theatrical Group.
He is attached to the forthcoming Broadway productions of Bat Boy (New York City Center revival), Sarah Silverman’s The Bedwetter, and the new musical Walter Paisley with Jerry Zaks. He will also direct and co-choreograph the new musical Miss Step for Playwrights Horizons in the 2027 season.
Other productions include Mystic Pizza at Paper Mill Playhouse, fifteen national touring companies of Elf, and work at Westport Country Playhouse, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, The Public Theater, The Denver Center, and Goodspeed Opera House. Connor received the Young Alumni Award from his alma mater, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, in 2021. He also performed on Broadway for a year as a dancing rug.