About
”’ a Lizzi Gee is a Choreographer, Movement Director and Practitioner whose work spans across all aspects of theatre, opera, film and television.
Lizzi is an Old Vic Associate Artist.
Lizzi is an extremely versatile creative, having worked on large scale musicals, creating a movement language for plays and opera, working ‘one on one’ to find the physical language of a character, to personal movement coach.
Lizzi has worked on many plays which are comedies, and has an ability to find great ‘physical comedy’ within her movement direction and choreography.
Lizzi is able to adapt and collaborate easily across many different genres. She has a particular ability to put any performer at ease with her self assurance, energy and excellent social skills.
Lizzi’s credits include, The National Theatre, the Old Vic, the Young Vic, English National Opera, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, Nottingham Playhouse, and many West End and touring Theatres.
Lizzi also owns her own dance school, training children from the age of 3 right through to adults.
She is often a guest lecturer and dance coach for many theatre schools across the UK, and when time allows volunteers at Nikosi’s Haven (a home for children and mothers affected by HIV) in Johannesburg, where she is a mentor and teacher of dance to the 120 children living there.
Biography
Theatre includes: Jack Absolute Flies Again, (National Theatre), Upstart Crow – (Gielgud Theatre) , A Christmas Carol (Broadway/San Fran/ LA& Melbourne), A Christmas Carol, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Old Vic); Little Shop of Horrors (Regents Park); Twelfth Night, Vernon God Little (Young Vic);The Man in the White Suit (Bath Theatre Royal/Wyndham’s) ‘Up Next’ Gala , A Pacifist Guide to the War on Cancer , Rocket to the Moon, River Stage Festival (National Theatre); Present Laughter, Running Wild, A Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Goodnight Mr Tom (Chichester FT); The Madness of George III (Nottingham); An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville/Bath); FROST/NIXON (Sheffield Theatres); THE MISER (Garrick Theatre); The Madness of George III (NT Live); The Girls (Phoenix Theatre); The Jungle Book (Northampton/UK Tour) Million Dollar Quartet (Noel Coward/ UK Tour); Oliver (Grange Park Opera); Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour); But First This ( Watermill Theatre) All Male H.M.S. Pinafore (UK Tour); Love Story (Duchess Theatre/West End) Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury Theatre); Sunshine on Leith (Dundee Rep/UK Tour); Buddy (UK Tour) The Wizard of Oz, Oliver, The Sound of Music (Cyprus); All Male Pirates of Penzance (Union Theatre/Wilton’s/Kingston Rose/Australia Tour & Sydney Theatre and UK Tour); Hair (Frankfurt EST) ; Around the World in 80 days (St James Theatre); Onassis (Novello Theatre)
Opera includes: Gods of the Game (Sky Arts/Grange Park Opera), HMS Pinafore, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe (ENO); Porgy and Bess (Grange Park Opera); Hansel and Gretel (Regents Park/ENO)
Film & Television includes: Pride (BBC/Pathè), Tap Boy (Short Film), Dance with Me (Short Film), Tic (short film), The Children’s BAFTA awards,Chi iced tea commercial, The Legend of Dick & Dom, The Feelgood Factor, The Big Performance, The Fit Farm and Diddy Movies