Chloe O. Davis (she/her) is an award-winning choreographer, performer, and author based in New York City. She has performed at The Metropolitan Opera, The Apollo, New York City Center, The Joyce, Jacob’s Pillow, and on Broadway. She captivates audiences with her masterful and commanding performances and is notable for her fresh and authentic approach to centering the essence of storytelling at the helm of her work. 

 

Her recent choreographic projects include the world premiers of two Broadway bound musicals, CrazySexyCool, the TLC musical at Arena Stage and Joriah Kwamé’s Little Miss Perfect at Olney Theater. She is also choreographing the highly anticipated world premier of Lalovavi, a Black futuristic opera, at Cincinnati Opera House. 

 

Chloe is a multihyphenated artist and skillfully intertwines her passions for celebrating performance, choreography, and creative direction. She was in the original Broadway cast (OBC) of the Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning musical Hell’s Kitchen, where she received a Chita Rivera nomination for Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Show. Chloe is also OBC of the Tony Award-winning musical Paradise Square–serving as both Associate Choreographer and performer–and won a Drama Desk Award for Best Choreography and Broadway Black’s “The Award” for Outstanding Choreography. She has performed premier works like Porgy and Bess (The Metropolitan Opera), Cabin In The Sky (New York City Center), and was a principal dancer for modern dance companies, Philadanco and Camille A. Brown and Dancers. Her notable TV/Film credits include, “Harlem” “Tell Me A Story” “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. 

 

Devoted to mastering the art of storytelling, Chloe delivers complex characters that make audiences spiral through emotions and lays the foundational groundwork to create epic stories. She has choreographed and reimagined timeless works like A New Brain (Barrington Stage), earning the New York Times Critic’s Picks, Waitress (The Muny), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (The REV Theatre), and playfully staged iconic comedians in choreographic skits seen on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (NBC). Chloe enthusiastically embraces opportunity to develop and create new works like The Oscar Micheaux Project (Prospect Musicals), celebrating the life of first Black film marker, Song For Hands On a Thursday (New York Theatre Barn/Prospect Musicals), blending music, dance, poetry, and sign language (ASL), and The Memorial, an dance work that honors the complex, emotional, yet universal journey of grief. This particular work is dedicated to families across the world that lost loved ones during the Covid-19 pandemic and to Chloe’s mother who passed September, 2025.     

 

She believes that art has the power to inspire the masses and be a change agent that connects our inner passions. Creating impactful works and characters that celebrate the power of humanity is truly a heartfelt honor to Chloe. She is truly art in motion.