Strictly Come Dancing

Craig Revel Horwood (born 1967) is a dancer, born in Ballarat, Australia. He is a choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom. Craig started his career as a dancer in Melbourne, later he moved to London to make use of the greater opportunities available in there.

Some of Craig’s West End hits include ‘Spend Spend Spend’ and ‘My One and Only’. Both of these gained him the Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Choreography.

Some of Craig’s regional theatre choreography credits include ‘Pal Joey’, ‘Arcadia’, ‘On the Razzle’, and ‘My One and Only’ at the Chichester Festival Theatre, ‘Guys and Dolls’ in Sheffield, ‘Anything Goes’ and ‘South Pacific’ for Grange Park Opera, and ‘Hot Mikado’ at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury.

There have been other international productions including ‘Crazy for You’ (South Africa), ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and ‘Sweet Charity’ (Amsterdam and Holland national tour), ‘Chess’ (Denmark), ‘Bonheur’ (Paris), ‘Der Kuhandel’ (Austria), and ‘Glanzlichter’ (Berlin).

Craig is one of the judges on Strictly Come Dancing and Comic Relief does Fame Academy. He has a reputation of being the harshest of the SCD judges.

Craig is a guest judge on the 2007 series of Dancing with the Stars in New Zealand.