Devanand Janki and Live & in Color (11/03/2020)
Devanand Janki is an award-winning director-choreographer based in New York City. His credits include Off-B’way: Zanna, Don’t! (Winner Lortel, Callaway and GLAAD Awards), Junie B. Jones, Henry and Mudge, and The Yellow Brick Road. The All Star Broadway concerts for the Actors Fund: Hair, Funny Girl, Dreamgirls (Assoc.) and Seth Rudestky’s Broadway 101. Lincoln Center: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Babes in Toyland, and Anything Goes in concert (Choreo. Assist.); 9 years as Artistic Assoc. for BC/EFA’s Broadway Bares. Regional Theatre: Little Girl Blue - The Nina Simone Musical (George Street Playhouse), The Wings of Ikarus Jackson , Barrio Grrrl! (Kennedy Center), Rent, Xanadu, Rocky Horror Show (Hangar Theatre) Disney’s Aladdin (Chicago Shakespeare), Asphalt Beach,The Full Monty, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Man of La Mancha. TYA tours: Martha Speaks, Nate the Great, If You Give a Pig Pancake, and The Berenstain Bears. He is Director of the Musical Theatre Division at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. As a performer Dev has appeared on Broadway in Cats, Miss Saigon, The King and I, and Side Show and tours of West Side Story and A Chorus Line. He is the Artistic Director of Live & In Color, which develops new plays and musicals that celebrate diversity. TheatreInColor.org https://stellaadler.com/profiles/devanand-janki/ https://liveandincolor.org/ https://www.playbill.com/person/devanand-n-janki-vault-0000002750