Krissy Richmond is a former principal dancer with the Houston Ballet. Roles she created include: Carabosse in the Sleeping Beauty, the mad woman from Peer Gynt, Mimi in the Miraculous Mandarin, the Girl in the Red Dress from Ghost Dances, the Snow Queen and the Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker, the Dark Angel from Serenade, In the Night, Bartok Concerto, and the original cast of Paul Taylor’s Company B. Upon leaving the ballet, Miss Richmond began a career performing featured and principal roles on Broadway which include: Hunyak and Roxie Hart from the musical Chicago, the Queen n Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, and Elizavetta Grushinskaya in  the Grand Hotel. She has performed locally as guest artist in Big Love for the University of Houston, Man from Nebraska at Stages Repertory Theater, Dorothy Shaw in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and guest artist as Ginger Rogers in Houston Grand Opera’s Die Fledermaus. Most recently, she performed the starring role of Anna in the New Girl in Town. Miss Richmond has choreographed for the Alley Theater, Stages Repertory Theater, the Humphrey’s School, and won the 2015 Tommy Tune Award for Best Choreography for A Chorus Line and 2016 Tommy Tune Award for Hairspray with the Kinkaid School. In 2017and 2018, Miss Richmond won back to back awards for Best Choreography from the Houston Press. 2017 for the AD Players production of Godspell and 2018 for the Obsidian Theater’s production of Cabaret.  Miss Richmond has choreographed Pride and Prejudice for 4th Wall Theater Company and most recently staged and choreographed The Fantasticks for Stages Repertory Theater and their grand opening of The Gordy.   Miss Richmond is also responsible for the ground-breaking program at the Houston Ballet “Dance for Parkinson’s”.