Our Bios

December 6, 2020
Annunziata Gianzero
Annunziata Gianzero (Producer, Writer) is an actor, writer, and unapologetic computer nerd who divides her time working in film, theatre, TV ...
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December 6, 2020
Mark Wilkinson
Mark Wilkinson (Director, Writer) is a narrative director, cinematog- rapher, documentarian, classical guitar geek born on the Charles R...
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December 6, 2020
Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen was born in Houston, Texas and began her dance training by studying privately with a former dancer of the Ballet Russe...
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December 6, 2020
Dulé Hill
Dule Hill, tap dancer, actor and producer, was born Karim Dule’ Hill, the younger of two sons, to Jamaican-born parents Jennifer and Ber...
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December 6, 2020
Cornel West
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard Univ...
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December 6, 2020
Maurice Hines
Maurice Hines is a star of stage, screen and television. He commenced his acclaimed career at the age of five, studying tap at the ...
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December 6, 2020
Brenda Bufalino
Brenda Bufalino is recognized throughout the world as a leading exponent and innovator in the tap world. She performs, lectures, and tea...
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December 6, 2020
Michela Marino Lerman
Michela Marino Lerman is a globally sought after tap dance artist, performer, choreographer, educator and all-around creative spiri...
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December 6, 2020
Michelle Dorrance
Michelle Dorrance, founder and artistic director of Dorrance Dance, is one of the most sought after tap dancers of her generation and “one of...
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December 6, 2020
Joseph C. Wiggan
Joseph C. Wiggan, is a native of Los Angeles where he began tap dance with Paul and Arlene Kennedy at the age of nine. At age 10, as a member...
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December 6, 2020
Ayodele Casel
Ayodele Casel, 2017 recipient of the Hoofer Award, is a native New Yorker and began her professional training at New York University’s Tisch ...
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December 6, 2020
Baakari Wilder
Baakari Wilder is internationally known for starring in the Broadway musical Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk. He received a Bes...
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December 6, 2020
Nicholas Van Young
Nicholas Van Young is a dancer, musician, choreographer, and a 2014 Bessie Award recipient. He began his professional career at age...
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December 6, 2020
Sarah Reich
Sarah Reich (Performer, Choreographer, Instructor, Composer) has emerged as one of the new leaders in the Art Form of Tap Dance. Th...
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December 6, 2020
Melinda Sullivan
Melinda Sullivan is an American dancer, choreographer and actress. She is one of the most highly sought out tap dance soloists in the wo...
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December 6, 2020
Jason Samuels Smith
Jason Samuels Smith is an established leader for Tap with accolades as Choreographer, Performer and Humanitarian. He received an Em...
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December 6, 2020
Alexandria "Brinae Ali" Bradley
Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley born and raised in Flint, Michigan is a interdisciplinary artist who believes in using the power of the ...
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December 6, 2020
Derick K. Grant
Derick K. Grant is a performer, choreographer, director who has an established career that spans over three decades. Under the dire...
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December 6, 2020
Cartier Williams
Cartier Williams Hoofer, Choreographer, Filmmaker and Performer who hails from Washing- ton, D.C., began his tap dancing career at ...
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December 6, 2020
Frances Bradley
Frances Bradley Performed in Black Girls Rock, was featured Tap soloist for international tour- ing company Illstyle & Pea...
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December 6, 2020
Christopher Broughton
Christopher Broughton, born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Chris began dancing at the age of 11 and has never looked back. Under the instruct...
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December 6, 2020
Dormeshia
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards is known for setting high standards in the world of Tap Dance. Tap coach to the king of pop Michael Jackso...
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December 6, 2020
Constance Valis Hill
Constance Valis Hill is a dance historian and choreographer, and a Five College Professorof Dance (Hampshire College). She is the author of T...
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December 6, 2020
Brian Seibert
Brian Seibert is the author of What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing (FSG, 2015), which was a finalist for a National B...
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December 6, 2020
Mark Alan Knowles
Mark Alan Knowles has directed and/or choreographed over 300 productions nationally and internationally, ranging from the South Ame...
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December 6, 2020
Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste is a Keyboardist, bandleader, singer, composer, and educator and an adventur- ous, eclectic, jazz-based musician. Since...
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December 6, 2020
Micheal Mwenso
Michael Mwenso, born in 1984 in Sierra Leone, began singing and playing piano after he moved to London as a young child. Early on, Michael de...
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December 6, 2020
Theo Hill
Theo Hill was hailed by the New York Times as “a vital young pianist at play in New York’s straight-ahead tradition” and is emerging as ...
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December 6, 2020
Dianne Walker
Dianne Walker, jazz tap dancer known for her elegant and fluid style of dancing that is delicate yet rhythmically complex, was born in Boston...
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December 6, 2020
Elka Samuels Smith
Born in 1977 to renowned jazz dancers Sue Samuels & Jo Jo Smith, Elka spent her first years of life growing up at JoJo’s Dance Factory in...
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