STUDENT CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE

Gracie Zamiska 
Junior Ballet student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: Handel's Concerto by Thomas Bell, La Bayadere "Kingdom of Shades" staged by Deirdre Carberry, Mind's Eye by Anna Lee Rohovec, Must Be Morning by Amanda Kenner. Elsewhere: Midwest Repertory Ballet, featured dancer and ensemble member in The Wizard of Oz at Actor's Center for Training.

Hazel Alexander 
Junior Ballet student from Killbuck, Ohio

At CCM: Demi Soloist in Waltz of the Flowers, Raymonda, Wilis and Villager in Giselle, Piquita, Falling Upwards, Le Bayadère, Death and the Maiden, Duende, Choreographer of Galileo Galilei. Choreographer in Student Choreography Showcase. Elsewhere: Choreographer of The Selkie at Dancing Under the Stars (Painesville, Ohio).

Emerson Lecrone
Junior Ballet student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Principal in Raymonda, Principal in “Waltz of the Flowers,” Friend in Giselle, soloist in Paquita, Falling Upwards. Elsewhere: Raymonda, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Le Corsaire, Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker.

Grace Mitchell 
Junior Ballet student from Darien, Connecticut

At CCM: Les Sylphides staged by Dierdre Carberry, La Bayadere's “Kingdom of Shades” staged by Dierdre Carberry, Rose Engel's Faux Pas.

Morgan Montour
Junior Ballet student from Dayton, Ohio

At CCM: Death and the Maiden choreographed by Qi Jiang, La Bayadere staged by Deirdre Carberry, Paquita soloist staged by Deirdre Carberry, Falling Upwards set to an award-winning composition by Aya Yoshida choreographed by Shauna Steele, dancer in Giselle, dancer in Student Choreographers' Showcase.

Iliana Rich
Sophomore Ballet student from Taylorsville, Kentucky

At CCM: Soloist in Raymonda, Mozart Mix, Corps de Ballet in Giselle, From The Beginning, Corps de Ballet in Paquita, Falling Upwards, Aurora Borealis.

Miranda Sharer 
Sophomore Ballet student from Lancaster, Ohio

Elsewhere: Performed in The Nutcracker at BalletMet (Columbus, Ohio), Attended BalletMet Summer Intensive 2018, 2020, 2021.

Ying Ying Tong
Sophomore Ballet student from Hong Kong, China

At CCM: Lead in In the Beginning, Peasant Pas de Trois in Giselle, Falling Upwards, Corps de Ballet in Paquita. Elsewhere: Odile in Swan Lake, Esmeralda in Esmeralda Excerpt, Princess Florine in Sleeping Beauty, Snow Queen in The Nutcracker (Interlochen, Michigan).

Mandi Weitz 
Junior Ballet student from Dayton, Ohio

At CCM: Corps de ballet in La Bayadere, Corps de ballet in Les Sylphides. Elsewhere: Various performances with the Dayton Ballet company including corps de ballet in Swan Lake.

Erin Decker 
Sophomore Ballet student from Naples, Florida

At CCM: Aurora Borealis by Keenan Pennington, Home-made, home-made! (But aren’t we all?) by Sydney D’Orso. Elsewhere: Cinderella, Clara, soloist roles in The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty; George Balanchine's The Nutcracker with Miami City Ballet.

Hannah Altmiller 
Freshman Ballet student from Springfield, Oregon

Elsewhere: Lady Winter and corps de statue in Adventures in Narnia at Dance Veritas (Eugene, Oregon), Dew Drop Fairy in The Nutcracker at SLC Ballet (Salt Lake City, Utah), Dulcinea, Spanish woman, and Bridesmaid in Don Quixote.  

Elise Arcuri 
Sophomore Ballet student from Santa Barbara, California

At CCM: Waltz of the Flowers, Raymonda, Giselle, Falling Upwards, Thoughts Unspoken Words Unsaid, The Ideal of Love.

Katherine Griffith 
Sophomore Ballet student from Dayton, Ohio

At CCM: “Falling Upwards,” “Who We Are,” Willis Corps in Giselle, Demi-soloist in “Waltz of the Flowers,” Dancer in Galileo Galilei. Elsewhere: Clara and Marzipan Corps in The Nutcracker and Fairy Godmother in Cinderella with Dayton Ballet (Dayton, Ohio).

Shaelyn Kuipers
Freshman Ballet student from Midland, North Carolina

At CCM: Who We Are, “Waltz of the Flowers.” Elsewhere: Maria, Snow Queen, Coffee Corps, Trepak Corps, Flowers Corps in The Nutcracker.

Kelsey Lewis
Freshman Ballet student from Glenwood, Illinois

At CCM: Mozart Mix. Elsewhere: “Tailsman Variation,” “Coppelia Suite,” Corps in “Mazurka” and Corps in “Dance of the Hours” with Boston Ballet Professional Division at Walnut Hill School for the Arts (Natick, Massachusetts).

Cynthia Lutz 
Sophomore Ballet student from Wheaton, Illinois

At CCM: Falling Upwards, Ethereal Relations, The Unforgotten, corp de ballet in Giselle, “Waltz of the Flowers.”

Miranda Sharer 
Sophomore Ballet student from Lancaster, Ohio

Elsewhere: Performed in The Nutcracker at BalletMet (Columbus, Ohio), Attended BalletMet Summer Intensive 2018, 2020, 2021.

Laykin Stoess 
Sophomore Ballet student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: Home-made, Home-made! (But Aren’t We All?), Giselle, Soloist in Who We Are.

Mandi Weitz 
Junior Ballet student from Dayton, Ohio

At CCM: Corps de ballet in La Bayadere, Corps de ballet in Les Sylphides. Elsewhere: Various performances with the Dayton Ballet company including corps de ballet in Swan Lake.

Emerson Lecrone
Junior Ballet student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Principal in Raymonda, Principal in “Waltz of the Flowers,” Friend in Giselle, soloist in Paquita, Falling Upwards. Elsewhere: Raymonda, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Le Corsaire, Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker.

Emilia Mieczykowski
Sophomore Ballet student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Elsewhere: Serenade and Walpurgisnacht set by repetiteurs of the Balanchine Trust, original student works at Cincinnati Ballet Academy; The Nutcracker, Bolero, Alice in Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet, King Arthur's Camelot with Cincinnati Ballet Company.

Regina Murphy
Sophomore Ballet student from South Bend, Indiana

At CCM: Little Dancer in 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty. Elsewhere: Cinderella in Cinderella, Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Snow Queen and Lead Arabian in The Nutcracker at Southold Dance Theater (South Bend, Indiana).

Ying Ying Tong
Sophomore Ballet student from Hong Kong, China

At CCM: Lead in In the Beginning, Peasant Pas de Trois in Giselle, Falling Upwards, Corps de Ballet in Paquita. Elsewhere: Odile in Swan Lake, Esmeralda in Esmeralda Excerpt, Princess Florine in Sleeping Beauty, Snow Queen in The Nutcracker (Interlochen, Michigan).

Shaelyn Kuipers
Freshman Ballet student from Midland, North Carolina

At CCM: Who We Are, “Waltz of the Flowers.” Elsewhere: Maria, Snow Queen, Coffee Corps, Trepak Corps, Flowers Corps in The Nutcracker.

Grace Mitchell 
Junior Ballet student from Darien, Connecticut

At CCM: Les Sylphides staged by Dierdre Carberry, La Bayadere's “Kingdom of Shades” staged by Dierdre Carberry, Rose Engel's Faux Pas.

Grace Ortega
Freshman Ballet student from Columbus, Ohio

At CCM: Demi-Soloist in “Waltz of the Flowers” and Corps de Ballet in Raymonda, Elsewhere: Second Movement in Coppelia with Western Symphony and Friends at BalletMet (Columbus, Ohio).

Sofia Stitz
Junior Ballet student from Dumont, New Jersey

At CCM: “Handel’s Concerto,” Soloist in "Kingdom of Shades" from La Bayadere, Enigma Station, Soloist in Paquita,From the Beginning, Peasant Pas” from Giselle, Student Choreographer’s Showcase (2020, 2021).

Madelin Talbot 
Junior Ballet student from Zanesville, Ohio

At CCM: Corps de ballet in La Bayadere, Dancer in Handel’s Concerto. Elsewhere: Corps de ballet in Giselle, Corps de ballet in Walpurgisnacht (intended to perform, unable due to COVID-19), Corps de ballet in Etudes (intended to perform, unable due to COVID-19) at BalletMet (Columbus, Ohio).

Maddie Weber 
Freshman Ballet student from Naperville, Illinois

Elsewhere: Featured soloist in The Nutcracker, Fairy Godmother and Cinderella in Cinderella at VH Dance Center (Naperville, Illinois).

Morgan Montour
Junior Ballet student from Dayton, Ohio

At CCM: Death and the Maiden choreographed by Qi Jiang, La Bayadere staged by Deirdre Carberry, Paquita soloist staged by Deirdre Carberry, Falling Upwards set to an award-winning composition by Aya Yoshida choreographed by Shauna Steele, dancer in Giselle, dancer in Student Choreographers' Showcase.

Eva Moore 
Junior Ballet student from Richfield, Ohio

At CCM: Soloist in Raymonda, Peasant Pas in Giselle, Excerpt of Paquita, In The Beginning, Falling Upwards, Handel Concerto, Kingdom of Shades, In Transit, Faux Pas. Elsewhere: The Nutcracker with Joffrey Ballet (Chicago, Illinois).

Gracie Zamiska 
Junior Ballet student from Louisville, Kentucky

At CCM: Handel's Concerto by Thomas Bell, La Bayadere "Kingdom of Shades" staged by Deirdre Carberry, Mind's Eye by Anna Lee Rohovec, Must Be Morning by Amanda Kenner. Elsewhere: Midwest Repertory Ballet, featured dancer and ensemble member in The Wizard of Oz at Actor's Center for Training.

Sophia Gray 
Sophomore Ballet student from Symmes Township, Ohio

At CCM: Home-made, home-made! (But aren’t we all?), Words Unspoken, Thoughts Unsaid, In The Beginning, Paquita, Giselle, Marie understudy in Little Dancer. Elsewhere: soloist in Paquita “Pas de Trois Variation 2” with the Cincinnati Ballet Academy.  

Hazel Alexander 
Junior Ballet student from Killbuck, Ohio

At CCM: Demi Soloist in Waltz of the Flowers, Raymonda, Wilis and Villager in Giselle, Piquita, Falling Upwards, Le Bayadère, Death and the Maiden, Duende, Choreographer of Galileo Galilei. Choreographer in Student Choreography Showcase. Elsewhere: Choreographer of The Selkie at Dancing Under the Stars (Painesville, Ohio).

Kelsey Lewis
Freshman Ballet student from Glenwood, Illinois

At CCM: Mozart Mix. Elsewhere: “Tailsman Variation,” “Coppelia Suite,” Corps in “Mazurka” and Corps in “Dance of the Hours” with Boston Ballet Professional Division at Walnut Hill School for the Arts (Natick, Massachusetts).

Cynthia Lutz 
Sophomore Ballet student from Wheaton, Illinois

At CCM: Falling Upwards, Ethereal Relations, The Unforgotten, corp de ballet in Giselle, “Waltz of the Flowers.”

Eva Moore 
Junior Ballet student from Richfield, Ohio

At CCM: Soloist in Raymonda, Peasant Pas in Giselle, Excerpt of Paquita, In The Beginning, Falling Upwards, Handel Concerto, Kingdom of Shades, In Transit, Faux Pas. Elsewhere: The Nutcracker with Joffrey Ballet (Chicago, Illinois).

Grace Ortega
Freshman Ballet student from Columbus, Ohio

At CCM: Demi-Soloist in “Waltz of the Flowers” and Corps de Ballet in Raymonda, Elsewhere: Second Movement in Coppelia with Western Symphony and Friends at BalletMet (Columbus, Ohio).

Isabella Ramsey
Freshman Ballet student from Toledo, Ohio

Elsewhere: Snow Princess, Dewdrop and Spanish in The Nutcracker with Toledo Ballet (Toledo, Ohio).

Sofia Stitz
Junior Ballet student from Dumont, New Jersey

At CCM: “Handel’s Concerto,” Soloist in "Kingdom of Shades" from La Bayadere, Enigma Station, Soloist in Paquita,From the Beginning, Peasant Pas” from Giselle, Student Choreographer’s Showcase (2020, 2021).

Caitlyn Wehner
Freshman Ballet student from Beavercreek, Ohio

CCM: Mozart Mix. Elsewhere: Snow, Flower, and Chinese Tea Corps in The Nutcracker, Flower Fairy in Alice in Wonderland with Dayton Ballet (Dayton, Ohio).

Iliana Rich
Sophomore Ballet student from Taylorsville, Kentucky

At CCM: Soloist in Raymonda, Mozart Mix, Corps de Ballet in Giselle, From The Beginning, Corps de Ballet in Paquita, Falling Upwards, Aurora Borealis.

Sarah Bartlett 
Junior Ballet student from Baltimore, Maryland

At CCM: Corp de ballet in Giselle, Paquita, La Bayadère, Handel Concerto. Elsewhere: corp de ballet in L’amore, corp de ballet in Vampiri with Étoile Ballet Theatre (Piacenza, Italy).

Sophia Gray 
Sophomore Ballet student from Symmes Township, Ohio

At CCM: Home-made, home-made! (But aren’t we all?), Words Unspoken, Thoughts Unsaid, In The Beginning, Paquita, Giselle, Marie understudy in Little Dancer. Elsewhere: soloist in Paquita “Pas de Trois Variation 2” with the Cincinnati Ballet Academy.  

Katherine Griffith 
Sophomore Ballet student from Dayton, Ohio

At CCM: “Falling Upwards,” “Who We Are,” Willis Corps in Giselle, Demi-soloist in “Waltz of the Flowers,” Dancer in Galileo Galilei. Elsewhere: Clara and Marzipan Corps in The Nutcracker and Fairy Godmother in Cinderella with Dayton Ballet (Dayton, Ohio).

Emilia Mieczykowski
Sophomore Ballet student from Cincinnati, Ohio

Elsewhere: Serenade and Walpurgisnacht set by repetiteurs of the Balanchine Trust, original student works at Cincinnati Ballet Academy; The Nutcracker, Bolero, Alice in Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet, King Arthur's Camelot with Cincinnati Ballet Company.

Regina Murphy
Sophomore Ballet student from South Bend, Indiana

At CCM: Little Dancer in 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty. Elsewhere: Cinderella in Cinderella, Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Snow Queen and Lead Arabian in The Nutcracker at Southold Dance Theater (South Bend, Indiana).

Isabella Ramsey
Freshman Ballet student from Toledo, Ohio

Elsewhere: Snow Princess, Dewdrop and Spanish in The Nutcracker with Toledo Ballet (Toledo, Ohio).

Isabella Thoroughman
Freshman Ballet student from Williamstown, Kentucky

At CCM: Corps de Ballet in Raymonda. Elsewhere: Esmeralda in Esmeralda (CCM Prep), Principal in La Bayadere(CCM Prep), Corps de Ballet in Swan Lake and Don Quixote (CCM Prep), Clara, Marzipan, and Flower Corps de Ballet in The Nutcracker, Corps de Ballet in La Bayadere, Corps de Ballets in Don Quixote with Cincinnati Ballet Academy, Magic Dress Party Girl and Clara Double in The Nutcracker with Cincinnati Ballet.

Rachel Ledington 
Junior Stage Management student from Round Rock, Texas

At CCM: Magic Flute. Elsewhere: Little Mermaid at Zilker Hillside theatre, Kids Act Out productions at Liberty Exhibition Hall.

Dionte Mercado 
Senior Lighting Design and Technology student from Alpharetta, Georgia

At CCM: Master Electrician for Xanadu and Pippin. Lighting Programmer for Spring Dance. Elsewhere: Electrics Apprentice for Santa Fe Opera 2021 Season.

Claire Michels
Junior Lighting Design and technology student from Oregon, Wisconsin

At CCM: Spotlight operator for Choreography Showcase, Assistant Master Electrician on Fall and Spring Dance shows, Assistant Lighting Designer for Emelia. Elsewhere: Associate Lighting Designer for Titanic and Sweeney Todd with Oregon Straw Hat Players, Lighting Designer for Nutcracker, Recitals (2018, 2019) with A Leap Above Dance (Oregon, Wisconsin).

Hannah Kate Hawver 
Junior Stage Management student from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

At CCM: PA for Xanadu, Orpheus in the Underworld, and Galileo Galilei, Assistant Stage Manager for Cincinnati Dionysia, Student Choreographer's Showcase (2023), and Sweet Charity, PSM for Gianni Schicchi + Dido and Aeneas, and American in Paris + Other Works. Elsewhere: Assistant Stage Manager at Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts (Warsaw, Indiana), Assistant Stage Manager at Gulfshore Playhouse (Naples, Florida), Assistant Stage Manager at Long Bay Theatre Company (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina).

Ashton Karp 
Junior Lighting Design student from Houston, Texas

At CCM: She Loves Me, 2023 Student Choreographers Showcase. Elsewhere: The Carnegie (Covington, Kentucky).

Jessica Ann Drayton 
Master’s Lighting Design student from Powder Springs, Georgia

At CCM: Cinderella, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dialogue of the Carmelites. Elsewhere: As you Like it and Trouble in Mind with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Jersey Boys with Arts Center of Coastal Carolina (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina), Secret Garden with TheaterLab Dayton (Dayton, Ohio), Ariodante with Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Sleepy Hollow with Dayton Ballet (Dayton, Ohio), Young Frankenstein with Circle Theater (Fort Worth, TX), Into the Breeches with Stagewest Theatre (Forth Worth, TX), Pleasure Trials with Amphibian Stage (Fort Worth, TX), Fierce! with Cincinnati Opera (Cincinnati, Ohio), and Eugene Onegin with Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Dallas, Texas).

Kristen Peck
Second-year Masters Lighting Design student from Fontana, California

At CCM: The Burials, Danceworks 2022. Elsewhere: God of Carnage at The Wayward Artist (Santa Ana, California), Titus Andronicus at Southern California Shakespeare Festival (Pomona, California), Heathers, Bee-luther-hatchee, Real Women Have Curves at California State Polytechnic University (Pomona, California).

Gabby Ullman 
Junior Technical Production student from Scottsdale, Arizona

At CCM: Master Carpenter for Galileo Galilei and Assistant Technical Director for She Loves Me. Elsewhere: she’s worked on installations for Disney World, and built for news studios and Super Bowls.

El Bowers
Freshman Stage Management student from Liberty Township, Ohio

At CCM: Production Assistant for Something Rotten. Elsewhere: Stage Manager for 101 Dalmatians at Rise Up Performing Arts (Hamilton, Ohio). 

Willow Heichel
Freshman Technical Production student from Granville, Ohio

At CCM: Scenic crew for Something Rotten Elsewhere: Deck Electrician for Crazy for You with the Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina).

Bethany Untener
Freshman Stage Management student from Cincinnati, Ohio

At CCM: Production Assistant for Cincinnati Dionysia: Lysistrata + The Trojan Women.

McKenna Brennan 
Senior Technical Production student from Los Alamitos, California

At CCM: Automation Op on Clybourne Park, Wardrobe Crew on 42nd Street, Master Carpenter on Little Shop of Horrors, Automation Op on Light in the Piazza.

Iz Dillon 
Sophomore Technical Direction student from Carmel, Indiana

At CCM: Head Carpenter for Frankenstein, Run Crew for Xanadu and Blue Stockings, Wigs and Makeup for Once, Spotlight Crew for She Loves Me.

Lukas Hummeldorf 
Junior Technical Design and Production student from Covington, Kentucky

At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for Something Rotten!, Master Carpenter for Marriage of Figaro. Elsewhere: Intern Technical Director for Indecent and Big Fish at the Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre (Covington, Kentucky), and the Shop Foreman for Radium Girls and Tuck Everlasting at Notre Dame Academy (Covington, Kentucky). Overhire with IATSE Local 5, and carpenter with CVG Made.

Nick Hunley 
Junior Technical Production student from Worthington, Ohio

At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for Cinderella, Programmer for Sunday in the Park with George, Head Carpenter for Pippin. Elsewhere: Stage Crew Lead at The Santa Fe Opera, Stage Crew Apprentice at The Santa Fe Opera

Benji Lookatch
Sophomore Technical Production student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

At CCM: Head Carpenter for Something Rotten and Cinderella, Wardrobe Crew for Our Town, Scenic Crew for The Marriage of Figaro, L'Amant Anonyme and Galileo Galilei.

Grace Mayo 
Senior Technical Production student from Dublin, Ohio

At CCM: Technical Director for Cinderella, Assistant Technical Director for Galileo Galilei and Dance Works 2021-22, Head Carpenter for The Good Trouble Project. Elsewhere: Technical Director for The Addams Family and Smokey Joe's Café, Assistant Technical Director for Legally Blonde, Cinderella, The Comedy of Errors, and Brigadoon, Carpenter for Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts (Warsaw, Indiana).

Gabby Ullman 
Junior Technical Production student from Scottsdale, Arizona

At CCM: Master Carpenter for Galileo Galilei and Assistant Technical Director for She Loves Me. Elsewhere: she’s worked on installations for Disney World, and built for news studios and Super Bowls.

Logan Vanderpool 
Senior Technical Production student from Fairfield, Ohio.

At CCM: Assistant Technical Director for Xanadu, Master Carpenter for Say What You Want to Say, Scenic Crew for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Rocky Horror show, Secret Garden. Elsewhere: Carpenter for Cinderella at Trollwood Performing Arts School.

Brian Haack
Third-year Sound Design and Technology student from Katy, Texas

At CCM: Load-in/out Crew for Brightstar, Prep and Sound Board Operator for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Boom Operator for E-Media short film project.

Bri Kelly 
Sophomore Lighting Design and Technology student from Gaithersburg, Maryland

Elsewhere: Assistant sound designer and A1 on Jekyll and Hyde an Immersive Musical Thriller, A1 on Always, Patsy Cline with Free Range Humans (Fredrick, Maryland), A2 on Cabaret with Southeastern Summer Theatre Institute (Hilton Head, South Carolina),  Sound Designer and Audio engineer on Pippin with The Free Theatre (Gaithersburg, Maryland), A1 on Romeo and Juliet with The Endangered Species Theatre Project (Fredrick, Maryland).