Shanna VanDerwerker - Columbia College Chicago

Shanna VanDerwerker

Adjunct Professor of Instruction

svanderwerker@colum.edu

Biography

Adjunct, Music Theatre Department, Dance. Choreography for Inaside Dance Company. Choreographer at Music Theater Works (Mamma Mia), Porchlight Music Theater (Sunset Blvd, Can Can), Mercury Theater Chicago (Spamalot, *Jeff Award Best Small Musical) Refuge Theater Project (Lysistrata Jones *Jeff Nomination), Fireside Theatre (selected credits: Holiday Inn, Guys & Dolls, Saturday Night Fever, 42nd St, Newsies, Singin' In The Rain). National Faculty for Dance Educators of America and Regional Dance America Mid-States.  Assistant Choreographer to Christopher Gattelli for Broadway Company of High Fidelity and Broadway Company of Amazing Grace. Dance Captain and Swing of First National Tour of Wicked, Swing in Broadway Company of Wicked, company member of dre.dance Company NYC. BA Dance Point Park University. 

Degrees

B.A., Dance Point Park University 2000