ROHAN DHUPAR - CHOREOGRAPHER

“Alice in Wonderland” at Theatre Sheridan & Bad Hats Theatre 

Choreographer: Rohan Dhupar

“Why Storms Are Named After People” at Trinity Laban Conservatoire 

Choreographer: Rohan Dhupar

RESUME

BIO:

Rohan is a queer Indo-Canadian choreographer and theatre-maker based between Toronto and London, UK. He works between and at the intersections of musical theatre and contemporary dance, and has a passion for developing new work and re-imagining classic and canonized work for contemporary relevance. He is a graduate of the Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance program at Sheridan College, Arts Management diploma program at Queen’s University, and recently received his MFA at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. Rohan is also an alum of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Observership for Early-Career Directors Program in New York, and recently completed a Directing and Choreography Placement with Susan Stroman on the West End revival of Crazy For You.

Rohan has performed with various companies, including the Charlottetown Festival, Expect Theatre, two seasons with Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, and various other credits for film, television and stage. He is an Associate Artist with contemporary dance theatre company Frog in Hand, and recently collaborated with Jody Oberfelder Projects on performances at the V&A Museum in London and Dance Muenchen Festival in Germany.

In his work as a creative, Rohan enjoys working collaboratively and draws on a range of skillsets such as devising, physical theatre, music and more. He has worked extensively as an Assistant, Associate and Rehearsal/Resident Director, and enjoys the processes of rehearsing understudies and remounting work from archival material. Rohan was the recipient of the Alan Lund Scholarship for Choreography in 2019, the Mississauga Arts Council MARTY Award for Emerging Dance Artist in 2021, and the Trinity Laban Highest Achievement Prize for Postgraduate Dance in 2023. His practice is underlined by elements of community arts, EDI and intimacy practices in an active pursuit to articulate and facilitate anti-oppressive rehearsal and performance spaces.

Recent directing and choreography credits include Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre/Theatre Sheridan), Why Storms are Named After People (Trinity Laban Conservatoire), Hydra (Akta Showcase/Golden Goose Theatre), and Venus & Adonis (Toronto Fringe/Theatre Oculus). Assistant/Associate credits include Come From Away (Newfoundland production), Crazy For You (West End Revival, London), The Pelican (NAMT Festival of New Musicals), and White Muscle Daddy (workshop, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).

“Crazy For You” at West End Revival

Directing & Choreography Placement: Rohan Dhupar