Lainie Munro is a New York-based director, choreographer, and performer.  She choreographed for designer Christian Louboutin and Piper-Heidsieck champagne for the Fashion’s Night Out 2009 event, choreographing dancers in Louboutin store windows throughout New York City.  Most recently she choreographed “Cabaret” for Music Theatre of Connecticut in Westport.

"Living Windows" at Christian Louboutin stores for Fashion's Night Out with dancers Megan Sikora and Sean McKnight.

Other choreography credits include: an episode of “Hope and Faith” starring Kelly Ripa, “Oklahoma!” starring Rue McClanahan for the Broadway Series of Charlotte, “Das Barbecu” for the Arvada Center in Denver, and “Crazy For You” for Florida State University’s Mainstage. Additional regional productions include: “Seven Brides…”, “Barnum”, “Grand Hotel”, and “Fiddler on the Roof”.  Her directing credits include: “Great Day” for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. starring Davis Gaines, Norm Lewis, and Christiane Noll, “Cabaret” for Weathervane Rep, “That’s Entertainment” and “Swing Time” -two revues she created-  for Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth 2, a staged reading of “Rainbow” starring Jerry Hadley at CAMI Music Hall in NYC, and a New York City reading of “Fine and Dandy” starring Noah Racey.

As a performer Lainie was in the Cameron Mackintosh/National Theatre of Great Britain production of “My Fair Lady”, which toured 26 cities across the USA 2007- 2008, including the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C.  She originated the role of Margolis McCloud in “The Unlikely Adventure of Race McCloud, Private Eye”, which enjoyed a sold out run in NYC’s 2009 Fringe Festival.  Regional roles include Velma in “Chicago”, Diana in “Of Thee I Sing”, Helene in “Sweet Charity”, Kristine in “A Chorus Line” and Phyllis on the European tour of  “42nd Street”.

Production still from “Blues in the Night” with Julio Agustin & Lainie Munro.

In addition to her work as a director, choreographer, and performer, Lainie also has an extensive teaching career and is a frequent guest artist for master classes in Musical Theatre both in the U.S. and internationally. In February 2011 she was a guest artist at the McDonald College ofPerforming Arts in Sydney, Australia, and will return again as a guest artist for their July 2012 Musical Theatre Intensive. She has taught Broadway Theatre Dance for the Musical Theatre Intensive Program at NYU’s C.A.P. 21 Conservatory and is a guest teacher at Steps in New York.  Currently she is on the Theatre Dance and Tap faculty at Broadway Dance Center, where she is also the Artistic Director of “The Broadway Big Brother/ Big Sister Program”- a program she created in 2001 that pairs Broadway dancers with aspiring young performers, giving them an opportunity to work together through rehearsals and performances.  Lainie was selected as a finalist for the Woman’s Day Magazine Awards, “Women That Inspire Us”, for her work with the Broadway Big Brother/ Big Sister Program.  Last year’s cast performed May 29, 2011 at the Danny Kaye Playhouse Theatre at Hunter College in New York City.

Lainie with students of McDonald Performing Arts College in Sydney, Australia.