Dance
Rohan Zhou-Lee began training in ballet at Northwestern University under Laura Wade, and later at the Ruth Page Center for The Arts under Birute Barodcaite, Vanessa Lake, Dolores Lipinski Long, Randall Newsom, and Tracey Von Der Haar. They completed the 2015 Dance Theatre of Harlem Summer Intensive.
They made their Off-Broadway debut in Over Here! The Musical, which received a warm review on Broadway World. Other notable productions include Francois & The Rebels, a musical about the Haitian Revolution, written by Jaime Cepero and choregraphed by Angela Nicole Patmon, and Zhou-Lee’s solo choreography Homage. Homage was first produced in 2016 at the A-Squared Asian American Performing Arts Festival and in September was restaged at the 2022 Unite Festival in Zurich, Switzerland. They also danced as an extra in pilot of Lovecraft Country.
View their full performance resume here.
Rohan Zhou-Lee’s previous credits include a soloist role in the Off-Broadway revival of Over Here! The Musical, West Side Story (New Bedford Festival Theatre,) The Bluebird from Sleeping Beauty (Victoria Ballet Theatre,) and their own choreographed solo Homage, at the A-Squared Asian American Performing Arts Festival. They trained at the Dance Theatre of Harlem summer intensive and the Ruth Page Center For the Arts under Dolores Long, Birute Barodcaite, Randall Newsom, Vanessa Lake, and Tracy Vonder Haar. Recently, siya made their New York trumpet debut with ChamberQUEER, performing Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy, and co-wrote the lyrics for Michael Genese’s world premiere of It will look like you.
Trumpet
Rohan Zhou-Lee has trained in trumpet sinc they were twelve and earned their degree in Ethnomusicology from Northwestern University. Previously having performed with Lakeside Pride Symphony in Chicago, siya made their New York debut with ChamberQUEER in the winter of 2021 in the production of Black queer twentieth-century composer Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy.
Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy, with ChamberQUEER Ensemble
Voice.
Rohan Zhou-Lee is a tenor. See their performance of William Grant Still’s Lift Every Voice And Sing at the 2022 Unite Festival in Zurich, Switzerland.