RAY HOGG

DIRECTOR-CHOREOGRAPHER

NATASHA PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 - Canadian Premiere

@ Crow’s Theatre (Dir: Chris Abraham)

Choreographer: Ray Hogg

BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL @ Neptune Theatre

Co-Directors: Ray Hogg & Jeremy Webb

Choreographer: Ray Hogg

DA KINK IN MY HAIR @ Arts Club Theatre Company

Director-Chorographer: Ray Hogg

SHREK THE MUSICAL @ Rainbow Stage

Director-Chorographer: Ray Hogg

CATS @ Rainbow Stage

Director-Chorographer: Ray Hogg

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SISTER ACT @ Rainbow Stage

Director-Chorographer: Ray Hogg

MAMMA MIA! @ Neptune Theatre (Dir: Jeremy Webb)

Choreographer: Ray Hogg

BIO:

Ray Hogg is an award winning Black theatre artist who creates virtuosic, visually stunning, viscerally moving theatre and live performance. He has 30 years of artistic, educational and leadership experience in the most celebrated opera, dance, and theatre companies around the world. His work as a theatre artist, director, and choreographer has taken him across Europe, The United States, and Canada. He has created for stages as diverse as Neptune Theatre in the east, The Arts Club Theatre Company in the west and many others in between. From 2012-2017 Ray served as Artistic Director of Rainbow Stage and from 2021-2025 as the Artistic DIrector of The Musical Stage Company. He is an Associate Artist at Neptune Theatre, and the founding Artistic Director of Prime Mover Theatre Company.

Directing credits include: A Strange Loop (Soulpepper/Crow’s/Musical Stage Company), Controlled Damage (The Grand Theatre London), Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Theatre Calgary), Dixon Road, Starwalker ( Musical Stage Company), Da Kink In My Hair (Arts Club Theatre); Cats, The Producers, Sister Act, Shrek, Little Shop of Horrors (Rainbow Stage); Five Guys Named Moe, Dreamgirls (Neptune Theatre), Love and Information, An Enemy of the People, Damn Yankees, Mary Poppins, and Chicago (Theatre Sheridan). His award-winning choreography has been seen at Crow’s Theatre (Natasha Pierre…Great Comet of 1812), the Shaw Festival (Come Back Little Sheba), the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (South Pacific), Neptune Theatre (Mamma Mia, Billy Elliot), the Segal Centre (Indecent), and more.