Fais-One Productions
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For more than thirty five years, George Faison has been a driving force in the theater as well as film, video, television, concert dance, concert staging, television commercials and trade shows. George is internationally recognized as having achieved a preeminent place among the world's most important directors, choreographers and writers is known for his uncompromising pursuit of artistic excellence and the production and nourishment of socially relevant art and artist. He has a keen eye for recognizing emerging talent such as S. Epatha Merkerson, Debbie Allen, Stephanie Mills, Phylicia Rashad, Eartha Robinson, Gary DeLoatch, Shedrack Anderson, Jackee and Hinton Battle among others. George has stayed in tune with the pulse of the artistic community and the people that make up its audiences and his impeccable reputation has attracted a devoted national and international following. All of this while maintaining a deep bond with his roots through innovative education and community outreach initiatives. This tradition began in the early 1970s, when the George Faison Universal Dance Experience performed on the Harlem Cultural Council’s Dance Mobile throughout the Harlem Community. Having himself benefited from the educational and training opportunities offered to him he is committed to giving back to the community on a global level. Faison had the vision to convert a historical building in the Central Harlem, NY into an organization with a serious mission to recognize the arts and cultural expressions as an integral aspect of human existence and impart their value and importance to our daily lives through the Faison Firehouse Theater initiatives.
George made his choreographic debut on Broadway with Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope in 1972. In 1974, he choreographed The Wiz, the successful all-black musical retelling of The Wizard of Oz. Faison won a Tony Award for his choreography, a first for an African American in that category. George has choreographed and directed more than thirty plays and musicals, including the Broadway musicals Via Galactica (1973) and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) with music by Leonard Bernstein; a Radio City Music Hall production of Porgy and Bess (1983); and Sing, Mahalia, Sing (1985) at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia. He also has worked in television, and in 1989 he conceived and produced the television special Cosby Salutes Ailey for the 30th anniversary of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He won an Emmy Award for his choreography of the HBO special The Josephine Baker Story (1991).
In addition to his work in theater, George has staged concerts for and videos for many of the world’s greatest performers. Amongst those whom George has and continues to do work with are Ashford and Simpson, Melba More, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Roberta Flack, Stephanie Mills, Miles Davis, Natalie Cole, Weather Girls, Cameo, Glenn Jones, Betty Carter, Oprah Winfrey and Bill Cosby.
Also, George has lent his talents commercial videos and trade shows. His clients includes Ford Motor Company, Lincoln-Mercury, AT&T, IBM, OTIS Elevators, GlaxoSmithKline, Peugeot, BMW, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Polaroid, AVON, and Coca-Cola.
