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“Even though it’s challenging and scary, in my [creative] process, the unknown is how you find your material,” says Camille A. Brown of the nationally acclaimed Camille A. Brown & Dancers Company.

In May of 2022, Brown made her Broadway debut with a revival of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf—becoming the first Black woman in 65 years to both direct and choreograph a Broadway show. It’s a role well-suited for Brown, who draws on a rich career making Afro Diasporic—and specifically Black girlhood—narratives come to life in Black Girl: Linguistic Play, Ink, and other works.

“The show provides me the space to really dive into what I do, which is choreography, but also storytelling of the body,” Brown told the New York Times.

Her choreography has been called “enthralling” (Pittsburgh Tribune) and “magisterial” (New York Times), akin to “observing a hummingbird in nature for the first time” (Boston Globe). Brown is a pioneering composer of social dance, a style started as a way for enslaved Africans to maintain cultural traditions and a sense of freedom.

Raised in Jamaica, Queens, Brown earned a B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and went on to dance as a member of Ronald K. Brown’s dance company, later composing several commissioned pieces for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

On the decision to start her own company in 2006, Brown , “At the root of it I didn’t want to have a company. I was working out of fear that I didn’t know my voice, but I started creating works for other companies, and I wanted a more intensive experience with dancers.”

After receiving numerous honors including a Guggenheim Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, five Princess Grace Awards, and a Tony nomination, there truly are no limits for Camille Brown.