Rodney Griffin

Rodney Griffin was a dancer, choreographer and co-founder of the Theater Dance Collection company. Griffin trained at the Martha Graham School and performed with Donald McKayle. On Broadway, he appeared in A Time for Singing; Promises, Promises; and Molly. Off-Broadway, he appeared in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Peer Gynt. He also performed in the movies Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Stiletto. 

Griffin began choreographing in 1971, when he helped to establish the Theater Dance Collection. His best-known dance for the company was Misalliance, a comic look at the mis-matching of ballet and modern dance techniques. His dances have been performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of Israel, Milwaukee Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Hartford Ballet, and Dayton Ballet. 

Griffin also created dances for productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Boston Lyric Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera, and directed and choreographed productions for the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT.