AWARDS & honors
HONORS
2026 International Black Theatre Festival Special Recognition Award
2026 New Yorkers for Culture and Arts Artist Advocacy Award
2026 Queens Public Library Honor
2025 Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator (I AM)
2025 Black Theater United Aspire Award
2025 Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2025 Certificate of Contribution by World Burlesque Day
2025 Tony Award Nominee for Best Choreography (Gypsy)
2025 Drama Desk Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography (Gypsy)
2025 Producers of Camille A. Brown: Giant Steps (co-directed by Michelle Parkerson and Shellée Haynesworth) nominated for a NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Short-Form Documentary
2024 Audelco Award Winner for Best Choreographer (Hell’s Kitchen)
2024 The African American Film Critics Association Salute to Excellence Award
2024 Harlem Stage’s Transformative Award
2024 Chita Rivera Award Winner for Outstanding Choreography in a Broadway Show (Hell’s Kitchen)
2024 Tony Award Nominee for Best Choreography (Hell’s Kitchen)
2024 Drama Desk Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography (Hell’s Kitchen)
2024 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer (Hell’s Kitchen)
2024 Dance Lab New York Honoree
2023 Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Revival (Mr. TOL E. RAncE)
2023 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Doctorate Recipient from Drew University
2023 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Doctorate Recipient from University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
2023 Broadway Black Award for Best Direction of a Play on Broadway (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer/Creator (Fire Shut Up in My Bones)
2022 Broadway Black Award Nominee for Best Direction (Broadway) (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Tony Award Nominee for Best Direction of a Play (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Tony Award Nominee for Best Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee for Outstanding Director of a Play (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Drama League Award Nominee for Outstanding Direction of a Play (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Chita Rivera Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography in a Broadway Show (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2022 Kennedy Center Next 50
2021 ISPA Distinguished Artist Award
2020 Emerson Collective Fellow
2020 Dance Magazine Award Honoree
2020 Obie Award Winner for Sustained Excellence in Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Toni Stone, Much Ado About Nothing)
2020 Broadway Black Award Winner for Best Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2020 Broadway Black Award Nominee for Best Quarantine Content (Social Dance for Social Distance)
2020 Drama Desk Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2020 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
2020 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreographer (Toni Stone)
2019 SDCF Callaway Award Finalist (Much Ado About Nothing)
2019 Audelco Award Winner for Choreography (Much Ado About Nothing)
2019 Audelco Award Nominee for Choreography (Toni Stone)
2019 Choreography Mentorship Co-Commission (CMCC) Award (Princess Grace Award)
2019 Tony Award Nominee for Best Choreography for Choir Boy
2019 Drama Desk Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography for Choir Boy
2019 Alumni Artpreneur of the Year Award -University of North Carolina School of the Arts
2019 Arison Alumni Award (National YoungArts Foundation)
2018 Chita Rivera (formerly the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards) "Outstanding Choreographer" Award Nominee (Once On This Island)
2018 Drama Desk LaDuca "Outstanding Choreographer" Award Nominee (Once On This Island)
2018 Outer Critics Circle "Outstanding Choreographer" Award Nominee (BELLA: An American Tall Tale)
2018 Lucille Lortel "Outstanding Choreographer" Award Nominee (BELLA: An American Tall Tale)
2018 Cover Girl of Dance Magazine (April)
2017 Black Woman Scholar Warrior Award (Montclair State University)
2017 Audelco Award for Best Choreography (BELLA: An American Tall Tale)
2017 Irma P. Hall Black Theater Nomination (BELLA: An American Tall Tale)
2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow
2016 Ms. Brown’s TED-Ed talk, A Visual History of Social Dance in 25 Moves, was chosen as one of the most notable talks of the year by TED Curator Chris Anderson; the video has over 15 million views on Facebook
2016 Statue Award (Princess Grace Award)
2016 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
2016 Guggenheim Fellow
2016 Bessie nomination for “Outstanding Production” (BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play)
2016 Choreographic Mentorship Co-Commission Award (Princess Grace Award)
2015 Cover Girl of Dance Teacher Magazine (August)
2015 USA Jay Franke & David Herro Fellow
2015 TED Fellow
2015 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient
2015 Lucille Lortel “Outstanding Choreographer” Award Nominee (Fortress of Solitude)
2015 NEFA’s National Dance Project: Production Grant
2015 MAP Fund Grantee
2015 Engaging Dance Audiences Grant
2014 Joyce Award with DANCECleveland
2014 Jerome Foundation 50th Anniversary Grant
2014 New York City Center Choreography Fellow
2014 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production for the work Mr. TOL E. RAncE (Camille A. Brown & Dancers)
2013 International Association of Blacks in Dance Founders Award
2013 Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award (Wesleyan University)
2013 Works in Progress Residency Award (Princess Grace Award)
2012 City College of New York Women & Culture Award
2006 Choreography Award (Princess Grace Award)
COMMISSIONED CHOREOGRAPHY
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Philadanco!
Complexions
Urban Bush Women
Ailey II
Ballet Memphis
Hubbard Street II
THEATER & FILM CREDITS
Click here to see descriptions of Camille’s theater projects.
Dreamgirls (Broadway), Director & Choreogrpaher
Sweet Lorraine (West Coast Premiere Reading), Director
Gypsy (Broadway), Choreographer
Hell’s Kitchen (The Public Theater), Choreographer
Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical (American Conservatory Theater), Choreographer
Hamlet (The Public Theater), Choreographer
Champion (The Metropolitan Opera), , Choreographer
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Broadway, The Booth Theatre), Director & Choreographer
Harlem (Amazon Prime Video), Choreographer
Toni Stone (Arena Stage), Choreographer
Fire Shut Up in My Bones (The Metropolitan Opera), Co-Director & Choreographer
Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Spotlight On Plays), Director
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix), Choreographer
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (The Public Theater), Choreographer
Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera), Choreographer
Once (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Choreographer
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Choreogrpaher
Toni Stone (Roundabout Theatre), Choreographer
Choir Boy (Broadway), Choreographer
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (NBC), Choreographer
Once on The Island (Broadway), Choreographer
A Streetcar Named Desire (Broadway), Choreographer
Fortress of Solitude (The Public Theater), Choreographer
Stagger Lee (DTC), Choreographer
BELLA: An American Tall Tale (DTC, Playwrights Horizons), Choreographer
Katori Hall’s BLOOD QUILT (Arena Stage), Choreographer
Cabin in the Sky (NY City Center Encores!), Choreographer
Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM! starring Lin-Manuel Miranda (NY City Center Encores! Off-Center), Choreographer
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (Regional), Choreographer
Marcus Gardley’s The BOX: A Black Comedy, Choreographer
OTHER EXPERIENCE
In 2016, Ms. Brown’s TED-Ed talk, “A Visual History of Social Dance in 25 Moves,” was chosen as one of the most notable talks of the year by TED Curator Chris Anderson; the video has over 15 million views on Facebook
Co-Directed The Social Dances: Jazz to Hip-Hop Program with Moncell Durden at The Jacob’s Pillow School
Given talks at both TEDxBeaconStreet and TEDx Estée Lauder
In 2016, Ms. Brown performed as a guest artist in the world premiere of "And Still You Must Swing" with tap artists Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Derick K. Grant, and Jason Samuels Smith at Jacob’s Pillow
In 2015, Ms. Brown performed at the TED Conference in Vancouver
In 2011, Ms. Brown was a guest artist with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
In 2008, Ms. Brown was a guest artist with Rennie Harris’ Puremovement
From 2001-2007, Ms. Brown was a member of Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, A Dance Company