It all started when…

Eamon was cast in his first Broadway show at nine years old, Gypsy, starring Bernadette Peters and directed by Sam Mendes. He went on to perform in four other Broadway productions before the age of sixteen, which were Assassins, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, 13! The Musical, and Everyday Rapture. He then went to Princeton University to turn his focus towards direction and choreography, where he founded Grind Arts Company, which is now a thriving non-profit that produces his theater and film projects.

After university, Eamon began his professional career choreographing two-time Tony Award winning director Michael Arden’s production of Merrily We Roll Along in Los Angeles, and went on to choreograph numerous productions with Arden including Guys and Dolls in Tokyo, Annie at the Hollywood Bowl, Alien/Nation at Williamstown Theater Festival, The Immersive Sondheim Experience at The Wallis Annenberg, and American Dream Study with Forest of Arden. Eamon also choreographed Tony Award winning director David Cromer’s Next to Normal at Writer’s Theater, and collaborated with him on Home, a dance film that Foley choreographed and shot.

As director-choreographer, he helmed the re-imagined, contemporary ballet-infused Sunday in the Park with George at The Axelrod Performing Arts Center to critical acclaim. He also conceived, directed, and choreographed the aerial-dance, rock musical Hero. At Six Flags Over Dallas, Eamon created Christmas at the Southern Palace, Northpole-a-palooza, and Freakshow. He also directed and choreographed Cyrano, Sweeney Todd, Nine, and The Last Five Years with Grind Arts Company, along with a slew of dance films and music videos for which he has also been the cinematographer. Most recently, Eamon directed and choreographed I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at SoHo Playhouse, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue. Eamon looks forward to directing and choreographing Rent at Theater Raleigh and Hit Show at The Civic Center in Oklahoma and The Carnegie in Kentucky in 2027.

Other choreography credits include His Story directed by Jeff Calhoun, Ragtime in Tokyo, The Wedding Banquet in Taiwan directed by Gordon Greenberg, Next to Normal at Barrington Stage Company directed by Alan Paul, Waitress at Theater Raleigh, and Hello, Dolly! at Olney Theater Center. Upcoming choreographic endeavors include A Chorus Line at Theater Aspen and The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Theater Raleigh.

Eamon directed and choreographed Sunday in the Park with George, produced by Axelrod Performing Arts Center. This re-imagined production brought George Suerat's inner world of color and light to the surface with contemporary ballet dancers on pointe representing the colors on George's palette, and cutting-edge lighting design reminiscent of an arena concert. The concept of dance and light brought the audience into George's mind and process, kinesthetically communicating his passion for creating art so that we can feel what he feels while in process and better empathize with his difficult choices. Footage from the production can be viewed above.

Theatermania

“A fresh ‘Sunday in the Park With George’ brims with color and light. … Director Eamon Foley offers a fresh and captivating new vision of this work. …  The production succeeds because it embraces a wholly singular aesthetic. Foley’s ‘Sunday’ looks like no other staging I’ve ever seen.

BroadwayWorld

“A vibrant, beautifully staged production that enjoys splendid direction and choreography by Broadway veteran,  Eamon Foley. The bold reimagining of the show with its star-studded cast is enthralling from the first minute to the last.

Two River Times

“Spellbinding. …director/choreographer Eamon Foley and Sondheim’s theatrical precision is on full display. …It is a piece of art one believes Seurat and Sondheim would be proud of.”

 “Finishing the Hat” is our proof-of-concept video for the production, directed, choreographed, and shot by Eamon Foley, and starring Graham Phillips as George, which can be viewed above.

“GROUP”

“GROUP” is a dance-film set in a men’s support group about a man’s reluctance to give himself over to the program. It is about how we need community to combat substance abuse disorder.

The piece is set to “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi” by Radiohead, and is choreographed and shot by Eamon Foley.

Eamon recently directed and choreographed I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical at SoHo Playhouse, by Alexander Bermange, which has been nominated for “Outstanding Revue” for the 2026 Drama Desk Awards.

“The smartest, sassiest musical review in town… I wish that my life in seeing musicals could be this resplendent every time I attended.”

- Masterworks Broadway, Peter Filichia

HERO

Eamon is currently developing Hero, an aerial dance theater piece about a young man drafted into the Vietnam War. The experience is a kaleidoscopic journey through a soldier’s war trauma; a memory play in which aerial dance and rock music bring the fragmented pieces of his surreal experience to life. The story is conveyed as non-verbally as possible, letting the music, lyrics, and imagery viscerally communicate his experience. 

Above you can view footage from the workshop production, which was Eamon’s multi-award winning thesis at Princeton University.

The Daily Princetonian

“HERO is the best performance the University will see in the next decade - if not longer”

MICHAEL ARDEN COLLABORATIONS

Eamon has choreographed many productions with two-time Tony Award winning director Michael Arden, including Guys and Dolls at the Imperial Theater in Tokyo, Annie at the Hollywood Bowl, Merrily We Roll Along and The Sondheim Immersive Experience at The Wallis Annenberg in Beverly Hills, and the immersive theatrical experiences Alien/Nation at Williamstown Theater Festival and American Dream Study by The Forest of Arden collective.

THE NUMBERS

Along with direction and choreography, Eamon is also a cinematographer and editor. He has shot and edited nearly all of his dance films, including his most recent, The Numbers, which is a meta-dance film about the process of getting into a studio with dancers and creating something beautiful together.

MUSIC VIDEOS

Brown Rice, directed and choreographed by Eamon explores gay loneliness in a body-obsessed culture, featuring the unique pop stylings of Natti Vogel. Warning: this music video involves explicit sensitive content.

Below is Bad Romance, starring Jay Armstrong Johnson, created for I Put a Spell On You benefitting BCEFA and The Ally Forney Center. Along with directing and choreographing this music video, Eamon also is the cinematographer and editor.