Biography

Marc Caro-Willcox

Marc Caro-Willcox is a San Diego Junior Theatre alum, currently teaching at SDJT and Helix High School. SDJT choreography credits: Newsies Jr., Tuck Everlasting, Seussical. Other choreography credits include: She Loves Me (Scripps Ranch Theatre), Mamma Mia! (Coronado Playhouse) In The Heights (Patio Playhouse), Little Shop of Horrors (San Diego City College), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (SDCC), Entrances and Exits (SDCC). Performance credits include: Shockheaded Peter, Cabaret and Supers (Cygnet), Hall Pass and Danny’s Story (Blindspot Collective), Avenue Q (OB Playhouse), A Chorus Line and The Old Man and the Old Moon (Coronado Playhouse). Marc directed JT’s 2023 production of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella choreographed Mean Girls last summer.

CLASSES

Winter Session: All That Jazz

The Prom, School Edition

Directed and Choreographed by Marc Caro-Willcox
Music Direction by Eliza Vedar

Book & Lyrics by Chad Beguelin
Book by Bob Martin
Music by Matthew Sklar
Based on an original concept by Jack Viertel
Original Broadway Production directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw
Originally Produced on Broadway by Bill Damaschke, Dori Berinstein, Jack Lane

Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves. The town’s parents want to keep the high school dance on the straight and narrow—but when one student just wants to bring her girlfriend to prom, the entire town has a date with destiny. On a mission to transform lives, Broadway’s brassiest join forces with a courageous girl and the town’s citizens and the result is the love that brings them all together.

Trash Panda-monium

Production by Blindspot Collective
Co-Directed by Desha Crownover and Marc Caro-Willcox
Written by Shellina Hefner and Elissa Russell

Audiences of all ages are greeted by a friendly forest ranger who places a campsite under their care and supervision. When three clever raccoons arrive to explore the mysterious objects left behind, young audiences must consider how to balance friendship and collaboration - imagining playful games and scenarios through the lens of sustainability. Scout, Bandit, and Ringo use their imagination to turn trash into treasure, encouraging youngsters to participate in a stormy game of pretend, sharing their own methods of communication, and solving problems. When the fun and games cause a mess, audiences and trash pandas alike must untangle important lessons about sustainability, working together, and keeping all of our natural habitats clean and safe.

Mean Girls: High School Version

Directed by Shawn Foote
Choreographed by Marc Caro-Willcox
Music Direction by Eliza Vedar
Assistant Directed by Brooke Henderson

Book by Tina Fey
Music by Jeff Richmond
Lyrics by Nell Benjamin
Based on the Paramount Pictures film Mean Girls

Cady Heron may have grown up on an African Savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her new home…suburban Illinois! Cady rises to the top of the popularity pecking order by taking on the ruthless Regina George and learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.

Tuck Everlasting

Directed by Desha Crownover
Choreographed by Marc Caro-Willcox
Adapted for the Stage by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle
Lyrics by Nathan Tysen
Music by Chris Miller
Based on the Novel by Natalie Babbitt

When Winnie Foster meets the Tuck Family she discovers they hold the secret to everlasting life. Should she return to her own family, or join the Tucks on their never-ending journey?