Marla Phelan is a director, choreographer, and dancer creating dance-focused artworks for film, stage, installation, and immersive experiences. Phelan’s choreography has premiered at Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, Aspen Music Festival, SXSW, Dance on Camera, Dixon Place, Gibney Center, and publications Nowness, Refinery29, VMagazine, NYMagazine, and NYTimes. Phelan directed the award-winning film The Fell of Dark and the recent tryptic video installation Obscure Passage. Phelan has directed movements for Michael C.Hall, Fischerspooner, RCHRDSN Studio, Maddy Talias, Comedy Central, and brands like Mugler, Maison Margiela, H&M, Reebok, GAP, and Mazda. Phelan is the founder of Movement Museum, a creative platform for dance. Phelan is a Creative Director at The Mckittrick Hotel 2022-2024 and Associate Choreographer/ Director for Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof National Tour 2018-2023. Her performance credits include Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More and The Drowned Man, Broadway’s Fiddler on the roof, The Shed’s Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise, Gibney Company, and Hofesh Shechter Company, among others. She is currently a contributing choreographer and performer of Life and Trust, a new immersive production from the producers of Sleep No More. Phelan is a Simons Foundation resident artist and grantee for an upcoming evening-length dance work Birth + Carnage. Phelan received her BFA from The Juilliard School