Neil Totton is an emerging singer/songwriter, dancer, choreographer and performance artist. His work blends music, video, fitness, storytelling and dance. Labeled by his mother as a precocious child, he was born in Cape Girardeau, MO. He made his national television debut as a contestant on Showtime at the Apollo. He was invited to join the Ballet Black Company as guest artist and performed at the Cochrane Theatre in London. He served as the dance captain and assistant choreographer for the national and international tours of Elton John and Tim Rice’s musical Aida. He later worked as the assistant choreographer for Jazz A’la Carte featuring Tony award-winner Savion Glover at the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC. As a producer he conceived and hosted the soul music competition NY Soul Sensation at New World Stages in 2011. He has also produced benefit concerts to support NY-based organizations that serve the needs of the LGBTQ youth and victims of childhood sexual abuse. In 2012 he wrote, produced and self-released his first mixtape Becoming Relevant. He created the Becoming Relevant fashion concert at New World Stages in NYC. He was a featured performer at the 2nd annual Out in the Woods music festival in Greenwich, NY. In 2015 after a brief stint in the fitness industry he was selected by New York Magazine as one of their top-10 superhuman trainers. Online media outlets Complex, Men’s Journal and The Root have invited him to create fitness content for their social media platforms. Most recently he conceived and produced an immersive fitness concert “The Fit Prince of New York”at Hub 17 and JCC HARLEM in NYC. His short dance film Dancing Through Darkness was screened in association with the Dance Film Association. He currently resides in NYC and is recording and self-producing his debut album American Soul.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Breakbot in The Brobot Adventure: Wrath of the Wackness, part of Poetic License 2020: Renewal