Barry Lather

Barry Lather (born August 16, 1966 in Albany, New York) is an American director, choreographer, producer, dancer and singer.

Barry Lather grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and was raised in a dancing family of five children. His mother, Joan, was a dance instructor and father, George, ran a dancewear business. Barry moved to Los Angeles after high school and trained on scholarship at Joe Tremaine's Dance Center.

In 1985 Lather got his start in the entertainment industry dancing in the 3-D film Captain EO (featuring Michael Jackson and directed by Francis Ford Coppola). Barry went on to dance in various commercials, the TV series "Fame" & "Dancin' to the Hits", a TV special working with Kenny Ortega and Janet Jackson's music videos "Nasty" & "When I Think of You" in 1986, both choreographed by Paula Abdul.

Shortly after those videos, Lather was given the opportunity to choreograph for Janet Jackson on the American Music Awards and Grammy Awards in 1987. Following the success of those two performances, Barry then choreographed Janet Jackson's music video "The Pleasure Principle", winning a Billboard Music Award and an MTV Award for Best Choreography in a video. The following year, Lather won a second Billboard Award for choreography with Sting's video "We'll Be Together". He went on to choreograph multiple commercials, TV performances and videos for Michael Jackson, Prince, Paula Abdul, Sting, George Michael, Sheena Easton, Troop, Shanice Wilson, Sheryl Crow, Bryan Adams, a short film for Michael Jackson, "Ghosts", in 1996, and several television shows such as The Drew Carey Show and Nickelodeon's critically acclaimed show "Roundhouse". He has received two American Choreography Awards, "Bob Fosse" Awards for his choreographic work.

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