Austin Eyer

J. Austin Eyer (Director/Choreographer) joined the UTA faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2020. Before Texas, he was an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University and an Adjunct Instructor at New York University. As a New York-based performer he was seen on Broadway in Evita, How to Succeed..., Billy Elliot (u/s Tony), The Little Mermaid (u/s Prince Eric), Curtains, and The Secret Garden (Colin). Austin choreographed the long-running Off-Broadway productions of My Big Gay Italian Wedding, and Boys Just Wanna Have Fun. He has also choreographed for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Disney World, and Universal Studios. He teaches worldwide with programs like Musiktheater Bavaria and Joop van den Ende Academy in Germany, American Musical Theatre Live in Paris, and Showa University in Tokyo. His book, Broadway Swings: Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre, was published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing. He holds a BFA in theatre from New York University and an MFA in directing from Penn State.