Audra Bryant is a NYC based choreographer, director, dancer, and educator.

Originally from Kansas, Audra trained in classical ballet, classical voice, and jazz dance prior to pursuing a bachelor of fine arts in Musical Theatre from the University of Oklahoma. Her dance style blends the history of her training with her storytelling abilities developed as an actor at the collegiate and professional level. After moving to NYC her style evolved to include influences from the contemporary and commercial world as she began to train and work with a broader range of dancers.

As a choreographer, Audra has exceptional abilities to visualize how the movement of actors/artists, dancers, and technical elements come together to enhance a story. Her innate connection to human emotion and to primal qualities at the root of human nature make Audra extremely talented in translating complex emotional states to movement of the body. This allows her to design movement that is emergent, pedestrian and sometimes “in-human”, reaching audiences in a visceral way. Ultimately she uses the body as a tool to show personal yet often common mental, emotional, and physical experiences.

As a director, Audra is drawn to stories that highlight the complexity of the human ego and how our ego influences feelings and relationships. She understands characters on a deeply personal level which allows for a clear point of view in her projects. Her capacity to think about details, and to conceptualize how details can be implemented, enable her to creatively visualize a project from start to finish. This in turn fulfills a director’s primary goal of maintaining and communicating the overall message and theme of a story.

Audra cares as deeply for the quality of the production as she does the experience getting there. Working mutually is essential to any project, and she strives to allow space for collaborators to perform at their highest level.

As an educator, Audra has over a decade of experience in teaching dance, acting, and musical theater that contribute to the compassionate creator she is today. She has a passion for people and an understanding of their personal relationship to movement and storytelling. She enjoys providing space for dancers and actors alike to express themselves through their bodies and their voices. Audra has significant experience teaching, directing, and choreographing at the collegiate level. Theater programs she has had the pleasure to work with in person are Concordia College, Fairfield University, Wichita State, and the University of Oklahoma. She has also Directed/Choreographed productions featuring performers from top BFA/BA programs around the country. These schools include Shenandoah Conservatory, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Texas State, Syracuse University, Pace, AMDA, and Ithaca College.

Today, Audra directs and choreographs regionally while also teaching and directing at the collegiate level. She continues to collaborate with artists in NYC, and to take on various projects for stage and screen as a director and choreographer.