Michelle Chassé trained with the Boston Ballet School and Maestro Vincenzo Celli and was on scholarship at the School of American Ballet. She graduated cum laude with a B.F.A. in dance from The Boston Conservatory, where she was the first recipient of the prestigious Ruth Sandholm Ambrose Award and later received the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. She has both studied and performed with ballet, concert dance, and Broadway legends from around the world. Chassé has choreographed numerous productions for the esteemed musical theater program at The Boston Conservatory, including Candide, Kismet and The Wild Party, for which she received critical acclaim within Boston and New York ranks. She directed and choreographed Swing! in December of 2022 at Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, A Chorus Line (2018), Catch Me If You Can (2016), and received a 2014 Arts Impulse Best Musical nomination for her direction of The Boston Conservatory’s On the Town, for which production she was also awarded Best Choreography. Her work on Le Cabaret Grimm, featured in the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival, earned her an Honorable Mention at that festival’s awards ceremony, and that same year her piece, Red Smoke Rises, was performed by Boston’s Urbanity Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Her continued choreography and stage direction for such internationally acclaimed ensembles as the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus have received numerous accolades from audiences and critics alike.