AMEENAH KAPLAN

Adding Story to Spectacle

Live / Immersive Experience Director (DISNEY)

Ameenah began her career as a performer with the original American cast of Stomp. She has since worked as an actor on stage, television and film, including recurring roles on “The Office” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” She is a drum coach for Blue Man Group and has played with everyone from Rihanna and Macy Gray to Adam Lambert and Alisan Porter.

She’s a multi-award winning choreographer of more than two-dozen shows, specializing in high-impact physical theater and rhythm.

Directing credits include Meet Vera Stark at Purdue Univ., How to Break at Village Theatre, Seattle, The Royale at ACT Theatre, Seattle. Molodi: Up Close And Personal the Las Vegas’ body percussion group, Modoli and Bash’d for Celebration Theatre, LA. She has twice directed for Noah Wylie’s Young Playwright’s Festival.

Her short, Man With a Movie Camera premiered at Hollyshorts Film Festival in 2014. She directed The American Failure to multiple film festivals and awards.

She has choreographed more than two-dozen shows for stage and TV, including The Grammys and Dancing with the Stars. She is the recipient of NAACP, LA Weekly, Gregory, and Ovation awards.

Academy of Art University Film School. New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Represented by Gurman Agency

2x NAACP Award Winner, Choreography

  • The Brother’s Size (2015)

  • The Women of Brewster Place (‘10)

3x LA Weekly Award

Richard E. Sherwood Emerging Artists

Gregory Award

  • The Royale (2017)

Ovation Award, Choreography

  • The Royale (2014)

CREDITS (SeLECT)

LIVE- The Lion King Tour (Resident Director, DISNEY, 2018-2021); Memphis Jookin’ w/ Lil Buck (Writer, COLUMBIA MUSIC LIVE); 2008 LA Weekly Theatre Awards (Co-Director); Afro Beat: Sesame Street (Choreographer, Universal City Japan); STOMP (Resident Director / Original Performer)

FILM/TV- Dancing with the Stars (Choreographer, ABC TV), Avengers: Infinity War (Actor), Avengers: Endgame (Actor), Encore! (Choreographer, ABC TV), The Office (Actor)

STAGE- The Wiz (Director), Midsummer’s Night Dream (Choreographer); In The Red and Brown Water (Choreographer); The Brothers Size (Choreographer); This is Not...A Republic (Director); The Royale (Director); The Ballad of Emmet Till (Choreographer)