Patricia Delgado

Patricia Delgado, first generation Cuban-American, was born in Miami, Florida. She was a principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet where she worked for 20 years and is currently a freelance artist and award-winning Choreographer living in NYC and a member of the dance faculty at The Juilliard School. She is a repetiteur for Justin Peck and has staged his works on New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ballet Arizona, and for members of The American Ballet Theatre and The Juilliard School, and in Dresden, Germany at The Semperoper Ballett. She was an Associate Producer on the 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story and Associate Choreographer on the feature film West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg. She was named a “Mujeres Imparables” by Telemundo in February 2022 and is a member of the Advisory Committee at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She cofounded and is artistic advisor of Adriana Pierce’s queer the ballet. She received the Tony Award and Chita Rivera Award for her choreography of Buena Vista Social Club, A New Broadway Musical and is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for its Atlantic Theater Production. She is the recipient of the inaugural Made in NY award in 2025. She is currently choreographing the new musical, Basura, with music by Gloria and Emily Estefan. She is devoted to creating a nurturing and positive environment of diversity, authenticity, inclusivity, vulnerability and belonging in all that she embarks upon. She and her husband, Justin Peck welcomed their daughter, Lucia Isabella, into this world in March 2021.