Patricia Birch

{{Short description|American dancer, choreographer and film director (born 1934)}}

Patricia Ann Birch (born October 16, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, film director, and theatre director.

Early life

Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Birch began her career as a dancer in Broadway musicals, including Brigadoon, Goldilocks, and West Side Story (playing Anybodys). She has directed and choreographed music videos for Cyndi Lauper, The Rolling Stones, and Carly Simon.

She earned Emmy Awards for her direction of the television specials Natalie Cole: Unforgettable and Celebrating Gershwin and, in collaboration with Michael Tilson Thomas, she staged the concert version of On the Town performed by both the London Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. She spent six years staging numbers for Saturday Night Live. In the 1960s, she taught dance at the Juilliard School's pre-college division in New York City. She performed as a soloist with Martha Graham and Agnes de Mille.

The Electric Company (1971)
Savages (1973)
The Wild Party (1975)
Roseland (1977)
A Little Night Music (1977)
Grease (1978)
Grease 2 (1982) also director
Christmas with Flicka (1987)
Big (1988)
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
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Stella (1990)
Billy Bathgate (1991)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
This Is My Life (1992)
Used People (1992)
North (1994)
The First Wives Club (1996)
The Human Stain (2003)
The Stepford Wives (2004)

All credits as choreographer unless otherwise noted

;Awards

1972 Drama Desk Award – Grease
1974 Drama Desk Award – Candide
2009 Induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame{{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/122247-Hamlisch-Lane-Birch-Tunick-and-Azenberg-Among-Theater-Hall-of-Fame-Inductees |title=Hamlisch, Lane, Birch, Tunick and Azenberg Among Theater Hall of Fame Inductees |publisher=playbill.com |access-date=May 28, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310005016/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/122247-Hamlisch-Lane-Birch-Tunick-and-Azenberg-Among-Theater-Hall-of-Fame-Inductees |archive-date=March 10, 2014}}

;Nominations