Marla Phelan is a choreographer and performer whose work spans stage, film, and immersive installations. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Movement Museum, a multidisciplinary company fusing choreography, theater, science, film, and technology to craft visceral worlds of physical rigor and emotional depth. Her choreography has been presented by La MaMa at The Ellen Stewart Theater, Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, and The Juilliard School with features in V Magazine, Nowness, and New York Magazine. She has choreographed for Kinlaw, Fischerspooner, Michael C. Hall, Maison Margiela, Mugler, and Mazda. Her theater credits include The Public Theater, The Shed, City Springs Theater, Theater Aspen, Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof National Tour, as well as Emursive LLC's Life & Trust and The Mckittrick Hotel (Creative Director).

Phelan is a NYSCA, Simons Foundation, LMCC, and AKC Fund awardee, NYFA/NYSCA Fellow Finalist in dance, and past Ailey NDCL, Gibney MTJ and Simons Foundation & Gibney Open Interval Resident Artist.

Phelan has danced with Gibney Company, Hofesh Shechter Company, Akram Khan (The Shed), and Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More and The Drowned Man. A Juilliard graduate, she is on faculty at the Mark Morris Dance Center and has taught workshops for NYU Tisch, Bard College, Brigham Young University, and Washington University.