Kiesha Lalama

Kiesha Lalama (Choreographer) has created more than 50 works for stage, film, and television. She choreographed feature films, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sorority Row, the hit television documentary series Broadway or Bust (PBS), and critically acclaimed television series Outsiders (WGN).

Kiesha's theatrical credits include National High School Musical Theater Awards (Broadway), All Shook Up (North Shore Music Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Kansas City Starlight Theatre), Into the Woods (Arsht Center), Judge Jackie Justice, Ruthless! The Musical, and A Grand Night for Singing (Pittsburgh CLO). Concert dance highlights include Shed (DCDC), Catapult (Dance Kaleidoscope), Alegria (Giordano Dance Chicago), Jolt (Houston Met) and Torque (August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble).

Kiesha has created two full-length contemporary dance theater productions. The Bench received rave reviews and was named by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s 'Best of Dance' Top Ten list in both 2009 and 2010. The Bench is currently under development with DCDC and Titus Theatrical with a world premiere set for Fall 2018.

As an educator, Kiesha serves as an Associate Professor in the Point Park University Dance Department and as the Education Director for the Pittsburgh CLO. She graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and has her BA in Dance from Point Park University, and is a proud member of SDC.