Stage debut as member Roscoe Holder's Dance Company, Trinidad, 1942. Formed own dance company, 1950. Toured Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, 1953, United States debut, 1953.Broadway debut: House of Flowers, 1954. Solo dancer with Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 19S6-57. Dramatic debut Waiting for Godot, 1957.Concerts with Geoffrey Holder Dance Company, New York City, 1956-1960. Appeared at Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, 1958, Festividadi Ballet Hispanico, New York, 1979. Director, costume designer: The Wiz, Broadway, 1975-1978, 78-84, 84 (Drama Desk award best costume design 1975, Tony award best costume design 1975, Tony award best director of musical 1975).Director, costume designer, choreographer: Timbuktu, 1978 (Tony award nomination outstanding costume design 1978). Stage appearances as dancer include House of Flowers, 1954, Aida, 1956, La Perichole, 1956, Show Boat, 1957, Josephine Baker's Revue, 1964. Stage appearances as actor Waiting for Godot, 1957, Twelfth Night, 1960, The Masque of St. George and the Dragon, 1973, From the Memoirs of Pontius Pilate, 1976, Night of One Hundred Stars Two, 1985, The Players Club Centennial Salute, 1989, Night of One Hundred Stars Three, 1990, Give My Regards to Broadway, 1991.Choreographer Brouhaha, 1960, Mhil Daiim, 1964, Three Songs for One, 1964, I Got a Song, 1974, Fifty Golden Years of Showstoppers, 1982. Costume designer The Twelve Gates, 1964, Three Songs for One, 1964. Movie appearances include: All Night Long, 1961, Doctor Dolittle, 1967, Krakatoa, East of Java, 1969, Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Sex, 1972, Live and Let Die, 1973, Swashbuckler, 1976, Annie, 1982, (narrator) Dance Black America, 1985, Boomerang, 1992.Appeared in night clubs. Television appearances include: The Man Without a Country, 1973, John Grin's Christmas, 1986, Ghost of a Chance, 1987, (series) Chef du Jour, 1995. Paintings exhibited, Barbados Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Barone Gallery, New York City, Gallery of Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, Gropper Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Griffin Gallery, New York City, Grinnel Galleries, Detroit.Recorded albums of W. Indian songs and album of song stories. Author: Black Gods, Green Islands, 1957, Geoffrey Holder's Caribbean Cookbook, 1974. Contributor articles to Playbill