ADMINISTRATION
NICOLE FOSSE
Founder & Artistic Director
In order for the lives and art of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse® to continue contributing to the human experience, Nicole is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and protection of her parents’ intellectual and artistic properties. She strives to ensure the nuanced, vivacious contradictions of their personalities and works remain accessible for future generations. Nicole founded The Verdon Fosse Legacy® in 2013. She served as co-executive producer and provided on and off-set consulting for the FX limited series, Fosse/Verdon, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Balancing her time between her sons, Sean, Noah, & Leif, and collaborating with entertainment industry creatives, Nicole happily teaches and practices Bikram yoga and healthy living in Northern New England.
NOAH FOSSE
Executive Director
Noah Fosse, son of founder Nicole Fosse, brings a dynamic blend of strategic business expertise and personal commitment to preserving and evolving the legacy of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. With a background in finance, investment banking, and early-stage venture capital, he began his career working with startups and institutional partners to scale high-growth initiatives. He holds both undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Michigan. As Executive Director of The Verdon Fosse Legacy, Noah oversees a wide-ranging portfolio that includes artistic collaborations with dance companies, studios, and cultural institutions, as well as brand partnerships and the commercial licensing of Bob and Gwen’s choreography and titles. His work spans the development of revivals and new productions, management of all licensing efforts, and long-term strategies to expand the legacy’s reach and impact.
Noah currently leads Fosse Forward, a groundbreaking initiative to propel the choreographic work of Bob and Gwen into the future. This effort focuses on strengthening dance education, commissioning new companion works from contemporary choreographers, and creating opportunities for legacy and innovation to intersect on stage.
Most recently, he served as Co-Producer of the Broadway revival Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’and is actively developing two film-to-stage adaptations—continuing to reimagine and expand the creative possibilities of the Verdon Fosse legacy for new generations. noahfosse@verdonfosse.com
LINDA HABERMAN
Artistic Director of the FOSSE® Foundation & Director of Concert Dance Development
Linda Haberman attributes her approach to directing and choreographing to her time assisting Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse. Her work is recognized for its demanding physicality, sophisticated style, and precise synchronization. Most recently, she directed, reconstructed, and provided additional choreography for Sweet Gwen Suite, a trio of dances originally choreographed by Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. The piece premiered at the Fall for Dance Festival and was later staged for the 2024–25 Hubbard Street Dance Chicago season.
In 2006, Haberman became the first woman to serve as the sole director and choreographer of the Radio City Rockettes. Over her nine-year tenure, she revitalized the troupe with innovative choreography and cutting-edge technology, creating multiple touring versions of the Christmas Spectacular, which played in over 80 cities across North America.
Her choreography has appeared Off-Broadway, in regional theater, and on major television broadcasts, including Dancing with the Stars, America’s Got Talent, and the NBC Radio City Christmas Spectacular. On Broadway, she assisted Fosse on Big Deal, Robbins on Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and Christopher Chadman on Guys and Dolls. As a performer, Haberman appeared in Dancin’, La Cage Aux Folles, Can-Can, and the filmed version of Pippin. She trained with the San Francisco Ballet, The School of American Ballet, and was an apprentice with the Harkness Ballet. An interview discussing her life and career is archived in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library as part of its Oral History Project.
JASON DEPINTO
General Manager & Technical Director
Jason DePinto is new to the Legacy this year, and brings with him a unique theatrical experience, spanning a 25-year career in the arts. He began dancing at an early age, studying all forms of dance at Coupé Theatre Studio in Rockland County, NY and spent 5 summers studying on scholarship with the Boston, Houston and San Francisco Ballet companies. He was mentored by Madame Nenette Charisse and Bob Tucker, both of whom were closely entwined with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. An alumnus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, he began performing professionally on cruise ships and has performed in over 75 countries worldwide. He has toured the U.S., Canada and Japan with National Tours of Saturday Night Fever, Spring Awakening, Billy Elliot and Movin’ Out, for which he was hand-picked by Twyla Tharp to be a Swing and Dance Captain. His Broadway credits include Spring Awakening, Nice Work If You Can Get It, School of Rock, King Kong: Alive on Broadway, American Utopia, KPOP, Bad Cinderella, Back to The Future, and Just In Time, where he has functioned as everything from a Swing, Dance Captain, Understudy, Associate Choreographer, Assistant Stage Manager and Production Stage Manager. Contributing to his technical knowledge of live performance, he can often be found in lighting shops, prepping and building lighting plots for Broadway and National Tours.
When Jason isn’t on stage or working behind the scenes, he runs a small organic farm in New Jersey, alongside his wife Charity, who is a Music Director on Broadway. He enjoys restoring classic cars and tractors and is an avid motorcyclist. His pride and joy are his children, Cora and Joseph, aged 10 and 8.