J. Austin Eyer joined the University of Texas at Arlington as an Assistant Professor and head of their BFA musical theatre program in 2020. Before Texas, he was an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University and an Adjunct Instructor at New York University. As a New York-based performer he was seen on Broadway in Evita, How to Succeed..., Billy Elliot (u/s Tony), The Little Mermaid (u/s Prince Eric), Curtains, and The Secret Garden (Colin). Eyer choreographed the long-running Off-Broadway productions of My Big Gay Italian Wedding, and Boys Just Wanna Have Fun. He also choreographed for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Disney World, and Universal Studios. He performed alongside Broadway stars like Sutton Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, Ricky Martin, Audra McDonald, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Cerveris, Bebe Neuwirth, Sherie Rene Scott, Raul Esparza, Donna Murphy, and Nick Jonas. He worked with Broadway directors and choreographers Hal Prince, Larry Fuller, Rob Ashford, Stephen Dalrdry, Casey Nicholaw, Peter Darling, JoAnn Hunter, Denis Jones, Jerry Mitchell, Tony Stevens, Kenny Ortega, Lorin Latarro, and Randy Skinner. Eyer has taught around the world with Musiktheater Bavaria and Joop van den Ende Academy in Germany, American Musical Theatre Live in Paris, and Showa University in Tokyo. He is a contributing author for Digital Theatre+ and his book titled Broadway Swings: Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre was published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama.
In 2022, he directed Queer-Antiracist-Feminism and Design for the Future, collaborating with Dr. Danielle Wood, an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT’s Media Lab. He received a BFA in theatre from New York University and an MFA in directing from Penn State. He recently completed a four-year certification as a Contemporary Alexander Technique teacher at the Contemporary Alexander School in Santa Fe, NM.
In 2022, he directed Queer-Antiracist-Feminism and Design for the Future, collaborating with Dr. Danielle Wood, an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT’s Media Lab. He received a BFA in theatre from New York University and an MFA in directing from Penn State. He recently completed a four-year certification as a Contemporary Alexander Technique teacher at the Contemporary Alexander School in Santa Fe, NM.
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