Craig Revel Horwood
Revel Horwood at the 2008 Red Bull Flugtag
Born	4 January 1965 (1965-01-04) (age 45) Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Television personality, choreographer, dancer and theatre director
Years active	1999–present

Craig Revel Horwood (born 4 January 1965) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Theatrical career 2.1 Panto 3 Television career 3.1 Strictly Come Dancing 3.2 Dancing with the Stars 3.3 Comic Relief Does Fame Academy 3.4 Other TV appearances 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Born in Ballarat, Australia, Horwood started his career as a dancer in Melbourne, then moved to London to take advantage of the greater opportunities available there.

In his biography, Horwood (nicknamed Craig Revel Horrid) reveals that at the age of 17 he made money by appearing as a drag queen in bars and clubs, and that his relationship with an unnamed celebrity was akin to prostitution.^[1] Horwood is bisexual, and is currently in a relationship with his partner, Grant.^[1]

Horwood has recently been made a patron of the National Osteoporosis Society, due to his efforts raising awareness of osteoporosis and bone health.

[edit] Theatrical career

Horwood's West End credits include Spend Spend Spend and My One and Only, both of which garnered him Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Choreography. He was associate director/choreographer of West Side Story, assisted Bob Avian with Martin Guerre, and was resident director of Miss Saigon. He also choreographed Hard Times - The Musical, Calamity Jane, Tommy Cooper - Jus' Like That, and directed and choreographed Beautiful and Damned.

Regional theatre choreography credits include Pal Joey, Arcadia, On the Razzle, and My One and Only at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Guys and Dolls in Sheffield, Anything Goes and South Pacific for Grange Park Opera, and Hot Mikado at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury.

International productions include Crazy for You (South Africa), Fiddler on the Roof and Sweet Charity (Amsterdam and Holland national tour), Chess (Denmark), Bonheur (Paris), Copacabana (Denmark, Der Kuhhandel (Austria), and Glanzlichter (Berlin).

Horwood directed the opening ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and staged Once Upon a Time - The Life of Hans Christian Andersen, a live concert in Copenhagen to mark the author's bicentenary that was televised worldwide.

Horwood recently choreographed the play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, starring Claire Bloom and Billy Zane at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

He is also directing the Welsh Premiere Concert Production of My Land's Shore ^[2] which will premiere in Cardiff soon.

[edit] Panto

In December 2009, Harwood played the part of The Queen, in Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs at Theatr Cymru in Llandudno, North Wales.

In the summer of 2008, he premiered a new production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard at the Watermill Theatre, which transferred to the London stage at the Comedy Theatre, running from 4 December 2008 to 18 April 2009.

[edit] Television career

[edit] Strictly Come Dancing

Horwood is familiar to British television audiences as a member of the judging panel on both the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. He has a reputation for being the harshest of the Strictly Come Dancing judges and is often the recipient of booing from the studio audience. On top of all this, he attracted widespread criticism for his apparent bias towards Emma Bunton in the fourth series of the competition.^[3]

[edit] Dancing with the Stars

He is a judge on Dancing with the Stars in New Zealand, along with Brendan Cole. It is quite frequent for the two men's opinions and scores to be markedly different.

[edit] Comic Relief Does Fame Academy

Horwood was a judge on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, along with Lesley Garrett and Richard Park. In May and June 2007 he appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Masterchef, reaching the final alongside Nadia Sawalha and Midge Ure.

[edit] Other TV appearances

He can also be seen in Episode 5 of Series 2 of Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends during which Theroux investigates the trials and tribulations of struggling New York actors. He is introduced as Craig Horwood at an audition for a musical on a Norwegian cruise ship, for which he is the choreographer.

[edit] References

v • d • e Strictly Come Dancing Series 1 • 2 • 3  • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 Hosts Bruce Forsyth • Tess Daly • Claudia Winkleman • Natasha Kaplinsky (2004) • Justin Lee Collins (2004) • Ronnie Corbett (2009) • Fearne Cotton (Children in Need Special, 2008) Judges Craig Revel Horwood • Alesha Dixon (2009–present) • Len Goodman • Bruno Tonioli • Darcey Bussell (guest judge, 2009–present) • Arlene Phillips (2004–08) Celebrity winners Natasha Kaplinsky • Jill Halfpenny • Darren Gough • Mark Ramprakash • Alesha Dixon • Tom Chambers • Chris Hollins Professional winners Brendan Cole • Darren Bennett • Lilia Kopylova • Karen Hardy • Matthew Cutler • Camilla Dallerup • Ola Jordan Celebrity runners-up Christopher Parker • Denise Lewis • Colin Jackson • Matt Dawson • Matt Di Angelo • Rachel Stevens • Ricky Whittle Professional runners-up Hanna Karttunen • Ian Waite • Erin Boag • Lilia Kopylova • Flavia Cacace • Vincent Simone • Natalie Lowe Specials winners David Seaman (Strictly Ice Dancing) • Robbie Earle (Strictly African Dancing) • Kara Tointon (Sport Relief, 2008) • Tess Daly (Children in Need Special, 2008) Specials runners-up Jessica Taylor (Strictly Ice Dancing) • Antonia Okonma (Strictly African Dancing) • Elaine Paige (Sport Relief, 2008) • Terry Wogan (Children in Need Special, 2008) Related Portal • It Takes Two • Dancing with the Stars (US version) • Dancing with the Stars (International versions)

v • d • e Fame Academy Series 1 · 2 · Comic Relief series Hosts Patrick Kielty · Claudia Winkleman · Cat Deeley · Dominic Wood · Sarah Cawood · Jake Humphrey · Caroline Flack · Sophie McDonnell · Holly Willoughby Judges Richard Park · Craig Revel Horwood · Lesley Garrett · Robin Gibb Teachers Carrie Grant · Kevin Adams · Pam Sheyne · Steve DuBerry · David Grant Main Series Winners David Sneddon · Alex Parks Celebrity Winners Will Mellor · Edith Bowman · Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Other alumni Sinéad Quinn · Lemar  · James Fox  · Peter Brame  · Alistair Griffin Winners songs "Stop Living the Lie" · "Maybe That's What It Takes" · List of songs

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Craig Revel Horwood at the Internet Movie Database
• Craig Revel Horwood talks about his production of Hot Mikado on The Interview Online