Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood

Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian–British professional ballroom dancer, choreographer, conductor, singer, author, theatre director and television personality. He is best known as a judge on popular BBC dancing show Strictly Come Dancing. Horwood’s West End credits include Spend Spend Spend and My One and Only. He has a waxwork in Madame Tussauds Blackpool which has been on display since July 2018.

About Craig Revel Horwood in brief

Summary Craig Revel HorwoodCraig Revel Horwood is an Australian–British professional ballroom dancer, choreographer, conductor, singer, author, theatre director and television personality. He is best known as a judge on popular BBC dancing show Strictly Come Dancing, and he is the only judge to have appeared in every episode so far. Horwood’s West End credits include Spend Spend Spend and My One and Only, both of which gained Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Choreography. He has a waxwork in Madame Tussauds Blackpool which has been on display since July 2018. In December 2019 he will play the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at Manchester Opera House, Manchester. He will embark on his first solo tour around England, All Balls and Glitter, talking about his life and performing some of the music that has been the soundtrack to his career this this year. He directed the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and staged Once Upon a Time – The Life of Hans Christian Andersen, a live concert in Copenhagen to mark the author’s bicentenary. He starred as Miss Hannigan in the UK touring production of Annie in 2015 and 2018 and also the West End in 2017 at Piccadilly Theatre.

In 2017 he directed and choreographed UK tour of Son of a Preacher Man, a new musical featuring the music of Dusty Springfield. He was associate director and choreographer of West Side Story, assisted Bob Avian with Martin Guerre and was resident director of Miss Saigon. He played Captain Hook in Peter Pan at The Orchard Theatre, Dartford, Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe and Churchill Theatre, Bromley. He also directed the Welsh Première Concert Production of My Land’s Shore for the Gate Theatre in Cardiff. In 2015 he played the Wicked Stepmother at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton alongside Debbie McGee. In 2018 he directed the UK Tour of musical Sister Act in 2016–17. In 2020 he will take part in a solo tour of England, called All Balls And Glitter. The tour was due to be in Spring 2020 but due to Covid19 being resuled for Spring 2021, it has been pushed back to September 2021. He has a reputation for being the harshest of the judges and is often the recipient of booing from the audience for his apparent bias towards Emma Bunton in the fourth series of the competition.