Christopher Wheeldon

Biography

Christopher Peter Wheeldon OBE is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.

Career Overview

Christopher Wheeldon has 32 screen credits in a career dating back to 2006. Signature works include Bizet: Carmen, Fred & Ginger, Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Crew

Gender

male

Known Credits

32

Birth Date

1973-03-22 00:00:00

Birth Place

Yeovil, Somerset, England

Known For

• 

  Bizet: Carmen
• Fred & Ginger
• 

  Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty
• 

  Oscar
• 

  ROH Live 2024/25: Alice im Wunderland
• 

  The Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty

Frequent Collaborators

• Anita Rachvelishvili (1 collaborations)
• Aleksandrs Antonenko (1 collaborations)
• Keith Miller (1 collaborations)
• John Moore (1 collaborations)
• Anita Hartig (1 collaborations)
• Kiri Deonarine (1 collaborations)
• Jennifer Johnson Cano (1 collaborations)
• Ildar Abdrazakov (1 collaborations)
• Malcolm MacKenzie (1 collaborations)
• Eduardo Valdes (1 collaborations)

Credits

• crew (22 credits)

  • Fred & Ginger

    choreographer

    crew
    2026
  • Oscar

    choreographer

    crew
    2024
  • ROH Live 2024/25: Alice im Wunderland

    choreographer

    crew
    2024
  • The Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty

    choreographer

    crew
    2023
  • Like Water for Chocolate

    choreographer

    crew
    2023
  • Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty

    choreographer

    crew
    2020
  • Cinderella

    choreographer

    crew
    2019
  • The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight Pattern

    choreographer

    crew
    2019
  • Them/Us

    choreographer

    crew
    2019
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen

    choreographer

    crew
    2019
  • An American in Paris: The Musical

    choreographer

    crew
    2018
  • Corybantic Games

    choreographer

    crew
    2018
  • The Winter's Tale

    choreographer

    crew
    2018
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    choreographer

    crew
    2017
  • Fourteen Days

    choreographer

    crew
    2017
  • The Sleeping Beauty

    creative consultant

    crew
    2017
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    choreographer

    crew
    2014
  • Bizet: Carmen

    choreographer

    crew
    2014
  • The Winter's Tale (The Royal Ballet)

    choreographer

    crew
    2014
  • Prokofiev: Cinderella

    choreographer

    crew
    2012
  • Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    choreographer

    crew
    2011
  • The Sleeping Beauty

    choreographer

    crew
    2006

• directing (5 credits)

  • Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works

    director

    directing
    2025
  • Oscar

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    director

    directing
    2024
  • An American in Paris: The Musical

    stage director

    directing
    2018
  • Prokofiev: Cinderella

    director

    directing
    2012

• writing (4 credits)

  • Oscar

    original concept

    writing
    2024
  • Royal Ballet & Opera 2024/25: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    writer

    writing
    2024
  • Like Water for Chocolate

    writer

    writing
    2023
  • The Winter's Tale (The Royal Ballet)

    story

    writing
    2014

• actors (1 credits)

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    - Lupita Nyong'o, Senator Bernie Sanders, Christopher Wheeldon, Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope (2015) ... Self - Guest actor actors
    2015