Lynne Taylor-Corbett is known for her work in theatre, dance and film. She was nominated for two Tony Awards and a Drama Desk for direction and choreography of Broadway's Swing! and for two American Theatre Wing Star Awards for its National Tour. She also choreographed Broadway's Chess and Titanic. Her show, My Vaudeville Man, was nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards and a Drama Desk Award this past season.
Off Broadway, she directed Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi, Marie Jones's Women on the Verge… at Irish Arts, Darlene Love: Portrait of a Singer at the Bottom Line, 20th Century Pop at the Rainbow and Stars, and was the original director of the Korean import, Cookin' at The Minetta Lane. She directed a play entitled Your Simone at The Culture Project; Boxes and Asking For It at the New York Fringe Festival. Regional shows include Tintypes at Hartford Stage and The Old Globe, Opal at George Street Playhouse and The Lyric Theatre, Flight of the Lawnchair Man for the Goodspeed Opera House, Hats in Chicago, and Girl's Room starring Donna McKechnie and Carol Lawrence in New York and Los Angeles.
Her dance works have been commissioned by New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Pacific Northwest Ballet and numerous companies throughout the world. She is the resident guest choreographer of The Carolina Ballet. Broadcasts of her work have been seen on Live From Lincoln Center, Live from the San Francisco Opera House and on UNCTV. Her films include Footloose, My Blue Heaven, Vanilla Sky and Bewitched. Most recently she and her work, Chiaroscuro were featured in Water Flowing Together, a documentary on Jock Soto of the New York City Ballet shown on PBS.
In the summer of 2005, she directed a multi-million dollar project for Disney in China, currently playing in the largest indoor theatre in Asia. Upcoming projects include the return of Wanda's World Off Broadway, and Creature of the Black Lagoon for Universal Hollywood.
Ms. Taylor-Corbett has staged benefits for The Hunger Project, is on the advisory board of Rosie's Broadway Kids, has been honored for her work for the A-T Project and is a mentor to a young playwright living in Tanzania through Nile Roger's We Are Family Foundation. She is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and even prouder to be the mom of actor Shaun Taylor-Corbett who is currently in the Tony Award winning In the Heights.