Julio Monge

Experienced actor, choreographer, and director. Broadway performing credits include Jerome Robbin's Broadway, Gloria and Emilio Estefan's On Your Feet, Lincoln Center's Twelfth Night, Man of La Mancha, Fosse, Victor/Victoria, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Paul Simon's The Capeman.Other performances in New York City include the Public Theater's Oedipus "El Rey", Hamlet, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry VIII, and Antony and Cleopatra.In 2016 Monge was selected to represent the Jerome Robbins Foundation and Rights Trust. Since then he has recreated Robbins' original West Side Story choreography for Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet, Glimmerglass Festival, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Atlanta Opera, Handa Opera at Sydney Harbour, Australia, and IHI Stage Around Tokyo, Japan. He served as artistic collaborator (2019-20) for the new West Side Story film, directed by Stephen Spielberg and adapted by Tony Kushner.Monge was honored with the 2017 Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by the Puerto Rican Day Parade Committee and in 2019 was nominated for Australia's prestigious Helpmann Award for best Choreography. He attended the University of Puerto Rico, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from Brooklyn College. Show less «