Marinda Davis is an award-winning choreographer, educator, and director whose work bridges
concert dance, commercial stages, and narrative storytelling. Touring with conventions from a
young age, she trained assisted Gus Giordano, Frank Hatchett, Ray Leeper, Dennis Caspary,
and Lisa Allain. She earned her BA from Marymount Manhattan College while simultaneously
training at Broadway Dance Center with her lifelong mentor, Sheila Barker. As a performer,
Marinda danced with Sting, 98 Degrees, and as a founding principal member of Anthony
Morigerato’s AMDP in New York. In 2010, Dance.com named her one of the “Top 10 Young
Choreographers to Watch.”

In 2009, Marinda founded marInspired; the storytellers, a company dedicated to movement as
narrative. Their first full-length work, Breakable, premiered in 2012. That same year, she
earned her first Capezio ACE Award nomination; her second came in 2015, where she received
2nd place and funding for UNbreakable. The show previewed at Dancerpalooza and premiered
at Los Angeles’ El Portal Theatre in 2016, later self-produced at Symphony Space in New York
(2017) and SCERA Theatre in Utah (2019).

Her choreography has been featured on some of the industry’s largest platforms. She created
work for Dancing with the Stars (Season 25 Finale starring Julianne Hough), NBC’s World of
Dance (Season 2), and served as Executive Choreographer for Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 and
Abbvie’s “Speak Endo” campaign also starring Julianne Hough. In 2018, her life and artistry
were profiled in the Emmy-honored CW docuseries My Last Days. In film, she choreographed
Disney+’s Clouds (2020) and the art docufilm Steadfast (2021). She also appeared as a
celebrity judge on Siwas Dance Pop Revolution on E!

In 2019, she was commissioned by Giordano Dance Chicago to create “Flickers”, which
premiered at the Harris Theater and was hailed as a “masterpiece,” with her movement
described as “a genre unto itself.” Most recently, she was commissioned to choreograph
Create, an original show for the largest ship in the world, Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas.
Marinda is a sought-after educator known for her transformative mentorship. She serves on
faculty at Broadway Dance Center, Steps on Broadway, Peridance, The Dance Teacher
Summit, Wild Dance Convention, Power Pak, and more, and currently is a professor at Pace
University Commercial Dance in both New York and Los Angeles. She is also the Artistic
Director of her NY/LA dance intensive for pre professional and professional dancers, The
Storytellers Intensive.

A true multihyphenate artist, Marinda continues to impact the field through choreography,
teaching, mentoring, speaking, and writing ; dedicated to inspiring the next generation of artists
to tell their stories through movement.