Christopher Peter Wheeldon OBE (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.

Born in Yeovil, Somerset, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8.

In 1991, Wheeldon joined the Royal Ballet, London; and in that same year, he won the gold medal at the Prix de Lausanne competition.

[1] In 2009, the City Parks Foundation commissioned Wheeldon and contemporary singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright to create a new work.

It, too, featured a score by Joby Talbot and has been given generally good reviews – 'a ballet to keep' says The Daily Telegraph, and 'a spectacular full-length narrative work that will stand the test of time' says The Toronto Star.

On 6 June 2019, Wheeldon's Cinderella in-the-round with English National Ballet was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall with over 90 dancers, and projections which created the fairytale setting.

The ceremony took place on Fire Island, NY and was captured in a Vimeo video by Daniel Robinson.