DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY
As a choreographer, director and movement consultant, I am passionate about collaborative physical storytelling, and believe that rooms where each actor and team member is respected and valued as a creative artist are those that create the strongest work. I've created movement for new and classic musical theatre, theatre for young audiences, film, plays, and new work, with favorite recent credits including Waitress (Paramount Theatre, assoc. director/assoc. choreographer), In His Hands (First Floor Theater, choreographer/asst. director), James and The Giant Peach (Marriott Theatre, asst. director/choreographer), Inanimate (Theatre Wit, choreographer), A Christmas Carol (Metropolis PAC, choreographer), and Lookingglass Alice (Lookingglass Theatre, asst. director).
At Northwestern, I directed, choreographed, and curated my Honors Thesis "Going On Seventeen", investigating theatrical images of the ingenue and teenage girlhood ranging from Shakespeare and Rodgers and Hammerstein to DeLappe and Tesori. Its written research component was published in Northwestern's Undergraduate Research Journal - read it here!
"Micah Figueroa’s directing and Emily Brooks’s assistant directing and choreography create some magical and surprising moments [...] They use The Den Theatre space very well and turn Benn’s poetry into a dance." - Stage and Cinema
"Director Micah Figueroa, working closely with Assistant Director and Choreographer Emily Brooks, have staged a mesmerizing, stylized production in which the lyrical quality of the piece takes precedent. There’s a great deal of beauty in this spirited presentation." - Chicago Theatre Review
"...wonderful choreography by Emily Brooks! Through several sequences of dance numbers, she invents a fascinating way to depict the horrors of being tainted with blood and what it might mean to have a curse on the community" - Around the Town Chicago