About

Debbie Roshe is a choreographer and prominent dance teacher in New York. She grew up in the midwest where she had Ford Foundation scholarships from School Of American Ballet. After graduating from Indiana University, she moved to New York. She was on scholarship with The Alvin Ailey School, and shortly after started working on Broadway. 

She has choreographed several regional productions in New York including “Mary Poppins”, Jersey Boys”, “A Christmas Carol”,”The Little Mermaid”, “Beauty And The Beast”, “The Bodyguard’”, “The Hunchback Of Notre Dame”, and “Memphis”. She also choreographed “Palm Beach” at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Des McAnuff, “A Novel Romance” and “Zona The Ghost Of Greenbrier” Off-Broadway, and “Damn Yankees” at the Ivoryton Playhouse. Other work includes “Sing A Christmas Song” at George Street Playhouse, “Young Tom Edison” for Theatreworks USA, “Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego?” for PBS, “The Dana Carvey Show,” “Sky Dancers,” and the 25th Anniversary Gala for Playwrights Horizons. She choreographed a new version of “Diamonds” in Kansas City, and a National Tour of “The Rocky Horror Show”. Debbie has also staged numerous commercials and industrials.  

As a performer, she appeared on Broadway in Woman of the Year with Lauren Bacall and Camelot with Richard Burton, and in the National Touring Companies of Song and Dance, La Cage Aux Folles, and West Side Story.  

Debbie has taught advanced jazz classes at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center in New York for many years. She has also taught for American Ballet Theatre, American Academy Of Ballet, Yale Dancers, New York Offstage, Greenwich Dance Studio, Hama’s in LA, Naples Academy Of Ballet, Cary School Of Ballet,  Dance Space in Vero Beach, and the Toledo Ballet.