Amy Hall Garner is making her HGO debut as choreographer for Il trovatore. Her work includes commissions by New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Miami City Ballet, ABT Studio Co., Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Carolina Ballet, Collage Dance Collective, and many more. Theatrical choreography credits include The Color Purple (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Dreamgirls (Paramount Theatre), and Choir Boy (Yale Repertory Theatre). In 2018, she was selected to participate in Alvin Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab supported by the Ford Foundation. In addition, Garner was one of the first recipients of the Joffrey Ballet’s Choreography of Color Award (now titled Winning Works). She recently created a new children’s ballet, Rita Finds Home, for The Joffrey Ballet and reimagined Baltimore School for the Arts’ new production of The Nutcracker. Garner is an adjunct professor at New York University’s New Studio on Broadway at Tisch School of the Arts and is the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Choreographer-in-Residence at BalletX. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School.