018: West Hyler – Broadway Director on NYMF, Circus & Auditions

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West Hyler’s recent productions include Cirque Du Soleil Paramour (Broadway), iLuminate (the World Tour), Air Play (at New Victory Theater & the World Tour), Big Apple Circus (at Lincoln Center & the Nat’l Tour), Panda! (at Beijing State Theater & Palazzo Hotel and Casino), Avenue Q (at State Theater of Bulgaria), Chandelier (on Celebrity Cruise Lines) and Georama (at St Louis Rep & New York Musical Festival), for which West won the NYMF award for ‘Outstanding Direction of a Musical.’ 

His work has been seen at theaters including Ars Nova, 59E59, Playhouse Square Cleveland, York Theater Company, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and The Colony Theater.

He was the associate director of Jersey Boys (on Broadway and Worldwide) as well as How the Grinch Stole Christmas (on Broadway).

West’s writing work includes Paramour, Georama, Big Apple Circus; Legendarium and Metamorphosis, Panda!, Chandelier, A Jake and A Tom (Winner of the Hollywood Family Film Festival), and We Declare You a Terrorist (at The Public Theater). He is a New York Musical Festival award-winner, a St Louis Critics Circle award winner, a Drama League Resident Artist, and holds an MFA from UCSD.

You can learn more about West at: WestHyler.com