Jacquie Bird has enjoyed a long and fulfilling career as a triple threat performer on Broadway, film, and television and is currently a master-teacher/choreographer, as well as a singer and writer. Over the past five years, she has choreographed numerous performances by the Young People's Chorus of New York City, including directing and choreographing more than 320 choristers and guest artists in YPC's sold-out 2010 and 2011 Jazz at Lincoln Center galas. She is presently gearing up for the next gala on March 12, 2012.

The Brooklyn native has taught and choreographed aspiring young artists in Japan, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Hong Kong, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Bermuda and Colombia. Here in the U.S. she has taught at Lehman College, Steps on Broadway, Ballet Arts and the Broadway Dance Center, where she was a longtime assistant to Frank Hatchett and a sometime-sub for Sue Samuels. She has also served as a visiting assistant professor of dance at Hope College and was a guest teacher/choreographer at Stephens College, the University of Las Vegas and has been guest lecturer at Hofstra University and Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts.

Jacquie, who holds a BFA from the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at City College, recently joined the theater department faculty at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she teaches in the MFA program. She is also the designer/creator of SilkWire Jewelry. For more information visit www.jacquiebird.com