Bill Deamer is one of Britain’s leading Choreographers and directors.

He started his career when, employed as lead dancer in a production of Cabaret in the West End (choreographed and directed by his mentor and lifelong friend Dame Gillian Lynne OBE), he was offered the opportunity to choreograph his own version of Cabaret at Salisbury Playhouse. From there he has never looked back. He was reunited with Gillian Lynne when he was invited by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Trevor Nunn to create the new tap choreography for the critically acclaimed revival of CATS at The London Palladium in 2014 (which has subsequently run worldwide)

Notable Theatre productions include: 42nd Street - (Sadler's Wells, UK and international tour); The Corn is Green – (National Theatre) and the critically acclaimed Follies – For which Bill was nominated for the Olivier award for Best Choreographer (National Theatre); The Osmonds - A New Musical (UK Tour); The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory); Top Hat- For which Bill won the Olivier Award for Best Choreographer - (The Aldwych Theatre); Sondheim on Sondheim (The Royal Festival Hall); The 50th Anniversary UK tour of The Sound of Music and Evita (The Dominion Theatre); Saturday Night Fever (West End & UK Tour).

Bill is also a very successful choreographer for film and television – recent credits include: Christmas Carole (SKY); The Real Full Monty; So You Think You Can Dance; ITV’s All Star Musicals and the hit BBC series Strictly Come Dancing, where he continues to contribute featured group professional routines, show dances and Charleston’s.

Throughout his career Bill has also become an expert on Fred Astaire, one of his dance idols. He directed and choreographed the first- ever tribute to Fred at The London Palladium and has appeared in ITV Perspectives programme For the Love of Fred Astaire.