Dax Valdes - Associate Director and Associate Movement Director

Dax is an actor, choreographer, director and teaching artist. As director/choreographer: Happy Days, … Spelling Bee, …Forum, How To Succeed…, Altar Boyz (Millbrook Playhouse). Choreography credits include: Lonely Leela (Desipina & Co.), 12N  – Twelfth Night (Leviathan Lab), The Musical of Musicals (Walnut Street Theater), Microcrisis (Ma-Yi Theatre Company), Triumph of Love, Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie (Millbrook Playhouse), EVERGREEN, Honor (Prospect Theatre Company), Pinkalicious (Vital Theatre Company), The Full Monty (Gallery Players), EST, NYMF, FringeNYC and NYU. Other projects: 12N (assistant director, Leviathan Lab), Rescue Me (assistant director, Ma-Yi), The Realm (movement, Down Payment Productions). As actor, he has worked with: HERE, NAATCO, Ma-Yi, artparty, Down Payment Productions, Millbrook Playhouse, Old Vic New Voices, among others. Dax has served as Education Associate for the Vineyard Theatre, Associate Artistic Director for Leviathan Lab, Producer for Capezio Dance Company’s 125th Anniversary Gala, and is currently the Associate Producer for the annual Career Transition For Dancers Gala, and an actor with Only Make Believe. Education: BFA Musical Theater, Point Park College; Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts.