Leah Howard

Leah has worked extensively across the entertainment industry both creatively and as a performer and is a versatile director and choreographer and a unique triple threat artist. Leah has most recently been working creatively on Australia’s first live-streamed musical Who’s Your Baghdaddy. Leah was Resident Director on the Australian and Asia tours of School of Rock and is currently the Resident Director for Jagged Little Pill. 

Leah was the Resident Director/Choreographer on the Melbourne season of The Rocky Horror Show starring Todd McKenney and the previous Australian tour of The Rocky Horror Show. She toured to Korea as the Resident Director for the UK Production of Avenue Q. 

Leah has worked creatively for; Rocky Horror Live (UK), Xanadu The Musical, Australia’s Got Talent, David Campbell’s Good Lovin and Swing Sessions 2 and Sydney Mardi Gras. She has choreographed for Hi-5, A Gurls Wurld, Blue Water High, and So You Think You Can Dance Australia and worked with artists including Macy Gray, Olivia Newton John, Cyndi Lauper, Peking Duck, Sam Sparro, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Amorosi, Deborah Cox, Sheena Easton, Meatloaf, and Mika. Music videos: Olympia, The Vines, Rogue Traders, Faker, Young Divas, Paulini and Natalie Bassingthwaighte. 

Leah is a sought after choreographer for television commercial campaigns including Bonds, Samsung, Telstra and Westfield. 

Theatre performance credits include: Disney’s Aladdin; Aretha Thomas in Legends! starring Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills; Mrs Corry in Mary Poppins; Avenue Q; Hair; Fame the Musical; Dein Perry’s Steel City (Australia and Radio City Music Hall NYC); UK tour of Tap Dogs Rebooted and Tap Dogs USA. 

Leah was the guest vocalist with KD Lang and Jimmy Somerville for the Sydney 2002 Gay Games, performed in the 2000 Olympics ceremonies, and is the face of Disney Juniors theme song, singing Heads, Shoulders, Ears and Bows. Leah was the Host of Disney Channel's My High School Musical and appears in the feature film Happy Feet.