Megan Gessner

Megan Gessner is a NYC-based dancer from San Diego, whose training spans tap, jazz, contemporary, house, heels, ballet, hip hop, and music theory. Initially a competitive dancer, she later joined contemporary-fusion company Unity Dance Ensemble SD and big band Ambassadors of Soul. While completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s in computer science at Brown University, she performed with and choreographed for student-run dance companies Fusion and Impulse (the latter of which she co-directed for 2 years), and played alto saxophone in the Brown Jazz Band. She has performed at the Joyce Theater in Savion Glover’s “Lady5 @ the Baroque Blak Tap Cafe”; at Jacob’s Pillow with the School’s tap dance ensemble; in the movie The Bride (2025); in Sarah Esser’s short film Exquisite Corpse;with Derick Grant’s Ensemble Lab; with Conner Kelly in a pre-show to Battery Dance Festival; and at Arts on Site and Yale with KAMRdance in the Mercy Velvet Project. Megan has had the pleasure to work and study with Dormeshia (La Cage Aux Folles pre-pro), Michelle Dorrance, Josette Wiggan, Brinae Ali Bradley, Dana Foglia, Anthony Morigerato (Endless), among others. Presently, she juggles several roles: lifelong student, tap dancer/choreographer and educator, choreoroboticist with futurist art/tech collective Finis Musicae, and collaborator at Nicholas Young’s Rhythmic Arts Center, where she produced the NYC Tap Dance Marathon.