BIOGRAPHY

WELLING HAS DIRECTED
15 Features, 19 Shorts, 2 Documentaries and 36 TV/Web episodes SINCE 2004
Shawn Welling
THE BEGINNING
WELLING'S CAREER BEGAN IN DANCE, BEFORE HIS RISE IN THE INDIE FILM WORLD. SOON AFTER, HE OPENED THE DANCE STUDIO PLANET FUNK ACADEMY IN HOUSTON, TX.
EARLY LIFE
HIS CAREER AS A DANCER SAW HIM PERFORMING & CHOREOGRAPHING FOR THE NBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES FOR THE HOUSTON ROCKETS IN 1994 AND CONTINUED WITH NFL & NHL HALF-TIME SHOWS, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL (DRALION), GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WHERE DIANE SAWYER HERALDED PLANET FUNK AS "LEGENDARY."
INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
IN ADDITION TO OVER 1,000 SHOWS WELLING HAS PERFORMED AND CHOREOGRAPHED IN THE U.S.
WELLING WAS SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES IN 2009 BY THE BILATERAL US-ARAB CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO BRING HIS DANCE TEAM AND CHOREOGRAPHY UNDER PLANET FUNK TEAM U.S.A. TO PERFORM AT THE 2009 INAUGURATION OF THE RASGAS FACILITY IN QATAR.
WELLING HAS ALSO PRODUCED A VARIETY OF SUCCESSFUL MASTER CLASSES FOR CLIENTS SUCH AS DISNEY'S "THE LION KING" DANCERS AND THE CAST FOR THE BROADWAY HIT "OLIVER!" HE HAS ALSO WORKED WITH WELL-KNOWN DANCE STARS, PHILLIP CHEBEEB, BRIAN FRIEDMAN, I.AM.ME, LES TWINS, AND MANY MORE.
