Tonya Lockyer biography

Tonya Lockyer

At Writers Theatre: Eurydice

Tonya Lockyer is an award-winning choreographer and cultural producer. Named a “key cultural changemaker” (Seattle Times), Lockyer has produced projects, co-founded festivals, and directed organizations that continue to have a profound impact on the U.S. dance ecology. Her work in performance has been seen at Lincoln Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts, New York’s Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Boston’s Emerson Majestic Theater, Long Beach Opera, Paris’s International Conference on New Media, Canada’s National Arts Centre, Russia’s International Festival of Experimental Art, and Poland’s Opera Baltycka; as well as featured on NPR and in The New York Times; presented by TEDx; and received awards from The National Endowment of the Arts and the Canada Council. Recently, Lockyer choreographed Seattle Rep’s Indecent “one of the seminal productions in Seattle stage history”. A native Newfoundlander, Lockyer has collaborated with some of the most groundbreaking experimentalists of our times and enjoyed a critically acclaimed inter/national performing career.

[Bio as of August 2023]