If dance could be distilled into a visual language, Michaeljon Slinger would speak it fluently. That fluency is evident in his choreography for stage and screen across the globe, most recently on Season 2 of Ryan Murphy’s docudrama Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, directed by Gus Van Sant (FX); Disney in Concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House; Comic Relief (BBC); Disney 100: The Concert (Australian tour); The Royal Flying Doctors Service (Channel 7, 7plus); with the Backstreet Boys on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC); and on productions of Hello, Dolly! and Nice Work If You Can Get It at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre.

As an Associate Choreographer, Michaeljon most recently reunited with director-choreographer Rob Ashford on the forthcoming musical motion picture The Deb, directed by Rebel Wilson, and continued his associate work alongside Lorin Latarro on the first London revival of The Producers at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Garrick Theatre, directed by Patrick Marber. His previous work with Latarro includes the Broadway musical The Heart of Rock and Roll at the James Earl Jones Theatre; the Broadway, West End, German, Australian, U.K., and North American touring companies of Mrs. Doubtfire, directed by Jerry Zaks; Michael Mayer’s world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s nineteenth-century masterpiece La Traviata, now a perennial favorite at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Fiasco Theater’s Merrily We Roll Along at Roundabout Theatre Company; the world premiere of Almost Famous at the Old Globe; and the star-studded benefit concert performance of Chess at the Broadhurst Theatre in support of the Entertainment Community Fund.

As a performer, Michaeljon made his Broadway debut in 2009 in the revival of West Side Story, directed by Arthur Laurents, serving as both Dance Captain and cast member. He went on to appear on Broadway in Billy Elliot; the original Broadway company of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe; Evita, starring Ricky Martin; Side Show; and Matilda. He took his final bow onstage in 2017 as Dance Captain and cast member in the celebrated Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, starring Bette Midler. Over the course of a performing career spanning more than a decade, he also appeared on the Academy Awards, the Tony Awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Jack O’Brien’s staged concert production of Guys and Dolls starring Nathan Lane, Patrick Wilson, and Megan Mullally, and in the opening musical number of Seth MacFarlane’s feature film Ted 2.

BACKGROUND & TRAINING

Proudly hailing from Queensland, Australia, Michaeljon moved to the United States after receiving an invitation to attend the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre on a full scholarship. He later joined the prestigious BFA Dance program at the Juilliard School in New York and remains the first Australian accepted into either institution.