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Odyssey Founder

The Creative Master

Derryl Yeager

Founder & Artistic Director

Training:

BFA (Magna Cum Laude), MFA (Summa Cum Laude)- University of Utah, American Conservatory Theatre – San Francisco, ABC Television Actor’s Workshop & Harvey Lembeck Comedy Workshop – LA, Voice – Seth Riggs, Ballet West Principal Dancer – 6 yrs, 25 years as professional Singer/Dancer/Actor

Performer:

Film
A More Perfect Union, She’s Having A Baby, Staying Alive, When the Heat Hits the Street, How Rare a Possession, The Lamb of God, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Limit Up.

Television
Touched by An Angel, Crossroads, Boys of Twilight, Fame, Days of Our Lives, Tracy Ullman Show, Coach, Moonlighting, For the Love of My Daughter, The Young and the Restless, The Stand, Hardcastle & McCormick, General Hospital, A Whole Lot Of Fun, Soup to Nuts, The Music of Your Life, Rodney Dangerfield Special, Country Jamboree, Steppin’ Out, Universal Studios Grand Opening Celebration, The Rose Parade.

Broadway Theatre
A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Cats, Shenandoah, Oklahoma!, Cinderella.

Nightclub
Mary Hart, Carol Lawrence, The Horn, Gardenia, Carlos and Charlies, The Sahara, The Mint, The Golden Nugget, The Desert Inn.

Industrial
LA Gear World Tour with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dominos Pizza, Ford, Dihatsu, Reebok, Kohler, Fila, Levis, Novell Commercials – Broadway, Rogaine

Director/Choreographer:

Hairspray, Footloose, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2x), Oklahoma!, CATS (2x), Les Miserables, The Little Mermaid and Mamma Mia – Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Coca-Cola- 2002 Olympics, The Dance, Tahitian Noni Industrial, Usana Convention

Choreographer:

Television
The Stand, Young and the Restless, The Bold and The Beautiful, Steppin’ Out, Country Jamboree, Touched by An Angel.

Film
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, The Great American West, When the Heat Hits the Street.

Music Video
Stevie Nicks, Julio Iglesias, Paul Anka, I Don’t Like Peanuts

Ballet
Promenades, Punch & Judy, Enya Variations, Saxon Suite, Flight of Icarus, Fresh Aire, Catfish Row, Windchimes, Jelly Roll Blues, Reebach Revival, Dreamtime USA, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Alice in Wonderland, Carnival of the Animals, Sarah’s Letter, Prayer of the Children, Three Preludes, Motif, Solimbula, Andante, Chichester Psalms.

Contemporary
Vision of Love, Move-Dance-Be Born, Thriller, It’s A Wonderful Life, Joy to the World, Let It Be, Sledgehammer, Deep Forest, Staying Alive, Meandres, Haun’s Mill, Motif, The Can Can Club, Giselle, Joplin Variations, Romeo+Juliet and HEAP!, Solimbula, Andante, The ReduxNut-Cracker, Carmen, Andante, The ReduxNut-Cracker, Prodigals, MJ, Chicago Nights, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Christmas Spectacular - SPECTACULAR!

Equity Theatre
Grease, The Little Mermaid, Utah! (4x), Pippin, South Pacific, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Damn Yankees, Pirates of Penzance, Annie Get Your Gun, The King and I, The Wizard of Oz, My Fair Lady, Sound of Music.

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