Lee Martino is recognized as one of the entertainment industry’s leading stage, television and corporate event director/choreographers, having garnered numerous awards and multiple nominations for her work, including two Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Awards, two Ovation Awards, and Garland awards. Lee was recently honored with the 2007 Ovation, LADCC, and Garland awards for her work in On Your Toes for Reprise!  

Choreography for other shows at Reprise! include: Li’l Abner starring Cathy Rigby, Damn Yankees, On The Town and Brigadoon.  Lee is the resident choreographer for Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles.

Other theatre credits include:  Beehive (El Portal Theatre), The Full Monty, All Shook Up (West Coast Premieres for Musical Theatre West), I Do I Do and Side By Side By Sondheim (The Pasadena Playhouse), Cabaret (West Coast Ensemble), Grease, Titanic, Jekyll and Hyde (Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities), excerpts for The King and I starring Lynn Redgrave and Patrick Stuart (Hollywood Bowl), Man of La Mancha starring Robert Goulet, Mame starring Carol Lawrence and Sally Struthers, and the opening of the Hobby Performing Arts Center in Houston  (A Tribute to Jerry Herman) for Theatre Under the Stars, Universal Studios’ New York Rascals Show, Disney’s Santa Clause 3 Stage Show (El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood).  Lee has directed and choreographed Broadway Babies starring Marilyn Mayes, Mimi Hines and Karen Morrow and Best of Reprise which Daily Variety touted the entire production as “powerhouse entertainment”both were at the John Anson Ford Theatre.

Lee choreographed IMPACT AT FORD FIELD, the Gala Opening of the Detroit Lions Football Field starring Gladys Knight, the Grand Opening of the Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs, starring American Idol Ruben Stoddard, and Disney International’s Latin American stage Tour A Dream Is A Wish. Lee has directed and choreographed several large scale dance production shows for Harley–Davidson in Denver, San Diego, Dallas and Orlando.

Lee has choreographed several benefit performances: What A Pair! (also director), a breast cancer benefit starring the industry’s leading females, The Alzheimer’s Association working with such stars as Jason Alexander, Vanessa Williams, Steven Weber, Ana Ortiz, and Kristen Bell, The Actor’s Fund starring Angela Landsbury and Carol Channing, S.T.A.G.E. (Los Angeles’ longest running AIDS benefit), starring television and Broadway celebrities, Children’s Hospital of Orange County Benefits (raising close to four million dollars for the charity) with Dick Van Dyke.  Hot Hollywood at the Henry Fonda Theatre (Music Box), featuring Nadine Valazquez (“My Name is Earl”), Shanelle Workman (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) and Eric Martsolf (“Passions”

Lee Martino can currently be seen on Bravo TV’s new dance show, “Step It Up & Dance”, choreographing and preparing contestants for a series of audition dance challenges.  Other TV credits:  NBC’s “Hit Me Baby One More Time”, the WB’s “What I Like About You”, starring Jenny Garth and Amanda Bynes, Nickelodeon’s “All That”, Warner Bros.’ animated feature “The King and I”, and Sony Pictures’ “Dark Wolf.