Princess Grace Award
Dance Scholarship, 2016
The Juilliard School
Additional Grants:
2026 Special Project Grant
Riley O’Flynn is a dance and music artist from San Francisco and a graduate of The Juilliard School. From 2017 to 2024, he was a member of Göteborgs Operans Danskompani, where he collaborated in the creation of new works with choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Hofesh Shechter, Sharon Eyal, Alexander Ekman, Maxine Doyle, Paul Blackman & Christine Gouzelis, Imre & Marne van Opstal, and Tom Weinberger. He now works internationally as an independent artist, performing with Kyle Abraham, Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, SFDanceworks, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Alan Lucien Øyen’s winter guests. As a singer, O’Flynn has also performed with Ane Brun at Orionteatern in Stockholm, Sweden.
Photo by Jon McRae