Overview
Celia Rowlson-Hall
Overview
Celia Rowlson-Hall
CELIA ROWLSON-HALL is an Emmy-nominated multidisciplinary artist who fuses narrative storytelling, modern dance, and film, creating a genre all her own. Celia is a prolific and widely sought after choreographer whose films include The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight), The Drama (A24), The Plague (Oscilloscope), Smile 2 (Paramount), After Yang (A24), X (A24), Aftersun (A24), Chapter One of Vox Lux (Neon), and The Fits (Oscilloscope). Her TV work includes HBO’s GIRLS, The Staircase, and The Other Two, Ziwe (Showtime), John Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix). She has choreographed music videos for David Byrne, Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Bleachers, MGMT, Romy, and many others.
Celia’s debut feature, MA, which she wrote, directed, choreographed, and starred in, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2015. It went on to play at over 40 festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards, including the Breakthrough Audience Award at AFI Film Festival. Celia’s vast body of short form work has garnered a variety of awards and have screened at festivals such as Sundance, Venice, SXSW, SFIFF, Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center.
In April 2025, she brought her uniqueapproach for the first time to the stage with SISSY, starring Marisa Tomei, Lucas Hedges, and Zoë Winters at Baryshnikov Arts.
Celia is represented by CAA and Pilot MGMT, and is currently a Sundance Institute FilmTwo Fellow and recipient of a Cinereach Fellowship, both in support of her next feature, INT/EXT. DAY INTO NIGHT.
MA
MA
MA
"Spellbinding and fiercely original...a silent film that is anything but quiet." - Indiewire
"Ma is astonishing, and easily one of the most brazen and beautiful independent films I’ve seen in years." - Hammer To Nail
"It marks the arrival of one of the most unique new voice's in American Cinema." - Bright Ideas Magazine
MA is Celia's award winning debut feature, which she wrote, directed, choreographed and starred in. Entirely dialogue free, it tells the story of a virgin mother on a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to give birth to our savior.
After have a work-in-progress screening at MOMA Ps1 as part of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, MA had its World Premiere at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. It then went on to screen internationally and domestically at over forty festivals worldwide, winning the Breakthrough Audience award at AFI Film Festival, the Independent Visions Award at Sarasota Film Festival, the Juice Award at Ashland Independent Film Festival, the One in a Million Award at Sun Valley Film Festival, the Ron Tibbett Excellence in Filmmaking Award at Indie Memphis, and the Clint Howard Character Actor Award at Sidewalk Film Festival, among several others.
MA released theatrically January 2017 in NYC, Chicago, and LA. It is available for purchase here.
Miu Miu Women's Tales
Miu Miu Women's Tales
(The [End) of History Illusion]
(The [End) of History Illusion] is the 14th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales. The acclaimed short-film series invites today’s most profound and original female directors to investigate vanity and femininity in the 21st century. This film was written, directed, and choreographed by Celia Rowlson-Hall. It premiered at 2017 Venice Film Festival. To watch the short film click HERE
Choreography
Choreography
"Choreographer of the moment" - VOGUE
"With her wacky charm, Celia Rowlson-Hall has become the dance darling of fashion and film." -DANCE MAGAZINE
"Ms. Rowlson-Hall’s brand of dance is quirky and unpretentious, the opposite of the hyper-sexualized choreography found in many music videos." - NEW YORK TIMES