Amy Hall Garner

Biography

Amy Hall Garner is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and a graduate of The Juilliard School. Her work receives international praise with commissions by New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Miami City Ballet, ABT Studio Co., The Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, BalletX, Carolina Ballet, Collage Dance Collective, and many more. Theatrical choreography credits include The Color Purple (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Dreamgirls (Paramount Theatre), and Choir Boy (Yale Repertory Theatre). Amy Hall Garner made her Houston Grand Opera debut as choreographer for Il Trovatore in 2024. In 2018, Amy Hall Garner was selected to participate in Alvin Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab, supported by the Ford Foundation. In addition, Garner was one of the first recipients of The Joffrey Ballet’s Choreography of Color Award (now titled Winning Works). Recently, she created a new children’s ballet titled Rita Finds Home for Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet and reimagined Baltimore School for the Arts’ new production of The Nutcracker. Amy is an adjunct professor at New York University’s New Studio on Broadway at Tisch School of the Arts and is the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Choreographer-in-Residence at BalletX.