Arlene Phillips has been nominated for an Emmy, a Tony, a Laurence Olivier award and an MTV award. As a choreographer she has worked on feature films, television, music videos, commercials, concert arenas and the stage.

She has, to date, choreographed fourteen films including Annie, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and the Pet Shop Boys’ It Couldn’t Happen Here. Her numerous television credits include specials or series for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Lesley Garrett, Tina Turner, Duran Duran, Benny Hill, The Brit Awards, The Royal Variety Show, Ken Russell's ABC of Music, The Prince’s Trust concert, the award-winning Hot Shoe Show, the Kenny Everett Show with Hot Gossip and the United States' syndicated series Dancin' to the Hits. Her many videos include work with The Bee Gees, Erasure, Aretha Franklin, Boy George, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Queen, Cliff Richard and Diana Ross. She has choreographed over one hundred commercials in England, Europe and in the United States including Dr Pepper, 7-UP, Coca-Cola, Levi Jeans, Burger King, Vidal Sassoon, Yellow Pages and American Express. She was invited to Moscow by Gedeminas Taranda to choreograph two pieces for Pilgrim - a company of Bolshoi and Kirov dancers. Her West End theatre work includes Time, Matador the smash-hit musical Grease and the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Clockwork Orange with music by U2. She has choreographed Starlight Express in London, New York, Germany, Japan and Australia and both directed and choreographed the productions for the USA national tour and the Las Vegas Hilton. In addition she directed and staged the concert tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber which featured Sarah Brightman in Japan, Michael Crawford in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the USA and Elaine Paige and Michael Ball in Great Britain. She directed Michael Flatley’s acclaimed arena production of Lord of the Dance and is currently the creative director for EFX at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas.

Arlene directed and choreographed Saturday Night Fever which opened at the London Palladium in May ’98 and opens on Broadway in October 1999.

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