MICHAEL PEREIRA
        Director/Choreographer

THEATRE
Seussical                                Director/Choreographer                White Plains Performing Arts Center
Once On This Island             Director                                         White Plains Performing Arts Center  
Pippin                                   Director/Choreographer                White Plains Performing Arts Center
Oliver                                    Director                                        White Plains Performing Arts Center
Damn Yankees                     Director                                         White Plains Performing Arts Center
The Sound of Music              Choreographer                              KJK Productions
The Wizard of Oz                 Director                                         KJK Productions

CONCERTS/BENEFITS
Broadway Nights                  Director/Choreographer                Ordell Theatre, NJ
Songs for Songs of Love        Director                                         Triad Theatre, NY
Spirits of Life                         Director                                        Shubert Theatre, New Haven, CT

BALLET
Rhythm                                Co-Choreographer                          Russian Ballet Theatre, DE
                         
 with Leslie Browne
Tony & Maria Suite              Co-Choreographer                          Russian Ballet Theatre, DE        
                          
with Leslie Browne

WORKSHOP        
Bye, Bye Birdie                      Collaborator                                    ABC-TV        
                                                                Ann Reinking, Choreographer
Chicago, The Musical             Collaborator                                  City Center/Broadway
                                                               
Ann Reinking, Choreographer
Applause                                Collaborator                                   Paper Mill Playhouse/National Tour
                                                               
Ann Reinking, Choreographer
GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER
Bye, Bye Blackbird                                                                        Canty Dance Centre - MA
All That Jazz                                                                                 Rob Merante’s Academy of Dance - CT
Let It Rain                                                                                     CMC Dance Company - NY
I Am What I Am                                                                          CMC Dance Company - NY
Season’s of Love                                                                            Allegro Dance - CT
Le Jazz Hot                                                                                    Performing Dance Academy - FL

EDUCATION
Southern Connecticut State University - New Haven, CT
Theatre Major
The American Musical and Dramatic Academy - New York, NY        
Musical Theatre Program
Intense Musical Theatre Training in Tony Award Winner Betty Buckley
Scholarship Student at Broadway Dance Center
Have studied dance with the following…Phil Black, Madame Darvash, Finis Jhung, David Marquez,
Frank Hatchett, Sheila Barker, A.C. Cuilla, Robert Tucker, Tony Stevens, Ann Reinking, Michael Owens,
among others
MICHAEL JUST HAS THAT
GIFT WHERE HE MAKES
PEOPLE LOOK GOOD!
Steve Boockvor, Tony Award Nominee