The Spotlight Series

Sofia Morrow-Schap, Agent
Rebecca Lampiasi, Agent
Katie Drablos, Choreographer/Teacher

CESD Dance is a NY-based department of CESD Talent Agency, a major bi-coastal agency.

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In-Studio Only

• Founder, Exactitude Dance
• Former Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain Radio City Rockettes
• Credits include Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Today Show, Dancing With the Stars, America’s Got Talent, Saturday Night Live, and more

• Co-founder, The Precision Dance Collective
• Appearances include Saturday Night Live (Sam Rockwell), America’s Got Talent, The Tony Awards
• Taught numerous Rockette Summer Intensives and Rockette Experiences

ON CAMERA F.A.C.E. TECHNIQUE

• Perform with more Focus, Attitude, Confidence, Energy and Eye Contact
• Build Confidence & be transformed doing the “Inside Work”
• Designed to aid students with self discovery, performance technique and movement
• Robin Dunn is a former Director of Amateur Night at the world famous Apollo Theater and has been a choreographer for Saturday Night Live

In-Studio Only

• Broadway, Chicago The Musical where he toured both nationally and internationally
• Only person to have performed as both a singer and a dancer in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
• Performance credits include Joseph…, and Billy Elliot (The Muny), Bye Bye Birdie (Lyric Theatre OKC), and more

• Member of the Brooklyn Nets Level-Up Squad
• one of “The Stompaz” for the Mascot Ellie The Elephant of the WNBA’s basketball team the New York Liberty
• Made his Broadway debut in SpongeBob SquarePants

• Bye Bye Birdie at the Kennedy Center, Associate Choreographer
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
• Stage Mother (A New Musical), Associate Director/Choreographer

• Artistic Director for Company SBB
• Creative Casting & Movement Director for Life & Trust
• Pioneered the methods which made her the Performance-Identity liaison for Sleep No More

In-Studio Only!
No experience necessary.

• One of the founding fathers of the Hip Hop freestyle genre called Lite Feet
• Created  ‘The Breakfast Club’ E.A.T (Earning All Together) — a Hip Hop platform for youth, to build upon their passion and talent, and be given an opportunity to promote themselves in a positive light
• Worked with artists such as Chris Brown “Kiss Kiss,” Ron Browz “Pop Champagne” ft. Jim Jones and Jules Santana

In-Studio Only

• Performed works by Earl Mosley, Ronald K. Brown and Tony winner Hinton Battle
• Choreography commissions include: Marymount Manhattan College, The Harvard Ballet Company, General Mischief Dance Theatre, The Boston Tea Party Opera, and more
• Artistic director of the xodus dance collective

• Recently appeared in the White Christmas at Theater Under the Stars and Broadway Revival of Funny Girl
• Other credits include The Tap Dance Kid, Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, 42ND Street, Maurice Hines: Tappin’ Thru Life
• Television credits include Law & Order SVU, the PBS specials Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future & The Kennedy Center at 50

• Currently in CHESS
• Broadway credits include, Death Becomes Her, Kiss Me, Kate, Hello, Dolly!, and Paramour
• Choreographer: Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream

• Richard is an award winning director/choreographer based in both NYC and London
• Broadway and West End credits include Elf (Associate Chor.), Company starring Patti LuPone (Associate Chor.), Come From Away (Associate Chor.), and many more
• Television credits include Encore! (Disney+), Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, America’s Got Talent, Bring It, Good Afternoon America (feat.Liza Minnelli)

• NYC based professional dancer, educator, adjudicator and dance podcast host; RWS Global Audition Choreographer
• Professional credits: West Side Story International Tour, FX’s Fosse/Verdon, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), In The Heights (PCLO), Finding Neverland National Tour, Radio City Christmas
• Dance Convention Faculty for 10+ years and recently taught in Brazil at the 16th annual Congresso de Jazz Dance.

• Member of the New American Tap Dance Orchestra directed by Brenda Bufalino
• Recipient of the Machado de Assis Medal for his work disseminating Brazilian culture in NYC
• Created and performed in his shows TAP&TOM, Felipe 101, Forget about Me and others

• Recent performing credits include Guys and Dolls at The Kennedy Center, Chicago and Singin’ in the Rain at The MUNY
• Roles played around the country include such as Cassie (A Chorus Line), Virtue (Anything Goes), Gertie Cummings (Oklahoma!), and many more
• Has been Assistant/Associate Choreographer for some of the industry’s best: Denis Jones, Ricky Hinds, Parker Esse, Al Blackstone, Rommy Sandhu, and others

• Spent 16 years performing as a Radio City Rockette
• Officially sanctioned to teach and reconstruct works for the Verdon Fosse Legacy
• A breast cancer survivor, Alyssa is also deeply engaged in charitable work, sharing her story to inspire, educate, and empower others.

• Performed as a Radio City Rockette at Radio City Music Hall
• Performed works by choreographers such as Chelsea Thedinga, Peter Chu, Brandon Coleman, Martha Graham
• As a Choreographer: Utah Dance Film Fest, CDC McClaine Timmerman Choreography Festival, and the Palm Desert Choreography Festival

• Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for the Radio City Rockettes
• Appearances include The Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, among others
• Recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was a featured dancer in Town & Country Magazine

• Performer and Rehearsal Director for Punchdrunk’s SLEEP NO MORE in NYC
• Formerly a member of Visceral Dance Chicago, Brandon has also worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as a guest artist
• His recent dance film, ROLLBACK premiered in May 2023 as a part of the Future Dance Festival

KRISTEN CARCONE
Associate Choreographer The Outsiders

XAVIER RUBIANO, CSA,
Casting Director, The TRC Company

• Currently in CHESS
• Broadway credits include, Death Becomes Her, Kiss Me, Kate, Hello, Dolly!, and Paramour
• Choreographer: Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream

• Brown has traveled to teach and choreograph all over the world, including places like Japan, London, Italy, Australia, France, South Africa, and more
• Choreographed for artists like Nicole Scherzinger, and danced/assisted major choreographers on television shows like X-Factor, Dancing With The Stars, Dickinson, BET’s Black Girls Rock and more
• Credits also include work with Janet Jackson, Beyonce, and Janelle Monae.

• Founder and Artistic Director of the Afro-Latin Dance Company, Sekou McMiller Dance Co
• Choreographic fellow for the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s New Directions Choreography lab
• Featured in the movie In the Heights

• Danced professionally with Sting, 98 Degrees & was a founding/principal dancer for Anthony Morigerato’s, AMDP, NY
• In 2020, Marinda choreographed the film, “Clouds” for Disney+
• Currently a professor at Pace University in both NY & LA

• Direction/Choreography: Day After Your Departure (HBO) – Choreographer, Lady In The Lake with Natalie Portman (Apple +)
• Film Performance Credits include: In The Heights, Tick Tick Boom with Lin Manuel Miranda, Bolden
• Television Performance Credits include: Succession (HBO), Vinyl (HBO), The Get Down (Netflix), Tell Me a Story

• Choreograpy Credits: Giordano Dance Chicago, Floyd Collins Broadway 
• Associate Choreographer: BOOP! The Musical
• Specialty Choreographer: SpongeBob, The Cher Show

• Performed nationally and internationally with companies such as The Von Howard Project, Forces of Nature, Ballet INC and Continuum Contemporary/Ballet
• She can be seen on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) and is featured on Season 2 of POSE (FX network)
• Assistant Company Manager for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 2015-2018

• Co-Choreographer, The Cher Show
• Worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment today, including Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, Cher, Usher, Halsey, Lady Gaga, and many more
• Feature film work includes Isn’t It Romantic, Annie, Going the Distance, Step Up II, Enchanted, Brighton Beach

• Worked across every area of the entertainment industry including Broadway, National Tours, fashion, film, and television
• Choreographic credits include Saturday Night Fever National Tour, New York Fashion Week, the New York City Knicks, Audi, Soho House
• Regional productions include of Mary Poppins, Cinderella, Newsies and the world premiere of Medicine the Musical

• Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Astaire nominations for his choreography for 42nd Street
• Performances credits include A Chorus Line, Gypsy, Dames at Sea, Hello Dolly, and many more
• Other shows include State Fair (Outer Critics nomination), Ain’t Broadway Grand (Tony, Outer Critics nominations), After the Night and the Music, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Tony, Drama Desk nominations)

• Worked with Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Paula Abdul, Demi Lavato, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé…
• Original cast of Showstoppers at the Wynn Hotel choreographed by Marguerite Derricks
• Worked on the X-factor UK with Brian Freidman

Minimum age for this class is 16.

• Danced with artists such as Big Sean, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Ne-Yo, Flo-Rida, Kendrick Lamar, Prince Royce, and Hailee Steinfeld
• As a choreographer Keenan has worked with Cardi B, Meek Mill, David Guetta, J Balvin, Bebe Rehxa, Yo Gotti, and Kelly Rowland
• Has taught internationally in Japan, South Korea, China,Peru, Spain,Germany, France, Argentina, England, Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Canada and South Africa

• Award winning choreographer and creative director
• Danced alongside Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani and more
• Choreographed for Cher, A Great Big World, Todrick Hall and countless others

• Appeared in 10 Broadway shows including A Chorus Line, On The Town, Hairspray, Sweet Charity, The Boy From Oz, and the Broadway revival of Cats
• Off-Broadway, he starred in Stephen Sondheim’s A Bed and A Chair: A New York Love Affair, Only Gold, Juno, among others
• Toured nationally with the first national tour of Fosse

• Choreography credits include Shakespeare In The Park/The Public Theater’s As You Like It and Friends! The Musical Parody
• As a performer Billy was in the Broadway/National Tour Productions of Mary Poppins, White Christmas and Young Frankenstein
• Associate/Assistant credits include work with Sonya Tayeh, Josh Bergasse, Andy Blankenbuhler and Al Blackstone

• Awarded the New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellowship at the School of American Ballet in 2024
• Featured dance soloist in “Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution” created by actress Glenn Close and musician Ted Nash
• Commissions include work for Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Marymount Manhattan College, PACE University, Philadanco-The Philadelphia Dance Company

• Bye Bye Birdie at the Kennedy Center, Associate Choreographer
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
• Stage Mother (A New Musical), Associate Director/Choreographer

• Associate Choreographer for The Radio City Rockettes
• Kate Spade New York
• MSC Cruises

• Former soloist with Ballet Torino, Aszure Barton & Artists, Metropolitan Opera, and Complexions
• Created original works for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, New York City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Hubbard Street II, BalletX, among others
• Awards and accolades include a Princess Grace Foundation-USA award in choreography, Alvin Ailey New Directions Choreography Lab, Joffrey Academy of Dance’s Winning Works

• Founder, Exactitude Dance
• Former Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain Radio City Rockettes
• Credits include Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Today Show, Dancing With the Stars, America’s Got Talent, Saturday Night Live, and more

• Associate choreographer of the 1st national tour of Tootsie (choreography by Denis Jones 2019 Tony Nominee)
• His Broadway debut was in On the Town as assistant choreographer, swing and dance captain
• Broadway/NYC performing credits include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular

• Founded by Los Angeles natives Jordan Johnson and Aidan Carberry, blends contemporary dance, hip-hop, theater, and video work
• Gained prominence by directing and choreographing music videos for the band half•alive
• Toured internationally as dancers in a show curated by William Forsythe called “Friends of Forsythe”

• Favorite Credits include: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Asst. Choreographer, Asst. Director, Dance Captain and Swing), The First National Tour of 42nd Street (Bert Barry/ Pat Denning us)
• Performed from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the streets of Tokyo’s DisneySea
• Choreographed over forty different shows and taught workshops for schools, theaters, and festivals across the planet

• Credits include the MTV Video Music Awards, the feature films La La Land, VOX LUX, and In the heights; GLEE, The Academy Awards and many more
• Completed 6 national tours with Travis Wall’s Shaping Sound and performed with Stacey Tookey’s company Still Motion
• Recently, she joined Peter Chu’s company Chuthis

• Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for the Radio City Rockettes
• Appearances include The Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, among others
• Recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was a featured dancer in Town & Country Magazine

• Danced under world renowned choreographers Keone and Mari, Brian Friedman, Kyle Hanagami, and more.
• Founded Shinsa the Collective
• Received a residency from ArtX in New York City to extend Shinsa’s latest show called “LIMBO: The Echo”

• Recent performing credits include Guys and Dolls at The Kennedy Center, Chicago and Singin’ in the Rain at The MUNY
• Roles played around the country include such as Cassie (A Chorus Line), Virtue (Anything Goes), Gertie Cummings (Oklahoma!), and many more
• Has been Assistant/Associate Choreographer for some of the industry’s best: Denis Jones, Ricky Hinds, Parker Esse, Al Blackstone, Rommy Sandhu, and others

• 24Seven faculty member
• Director and Founder of Moving Forward, an innovative Non-Profit Organization for young artists
• Awards: YAGP, Gene Kelly Legacy Scholarship, US Presidential Scholar in the Arts Nominee

• Assisted Tony-award winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli on the Broadway musical, The Cher Show
• Associate choreographer of Mamma Mia! at New London Barn Playhouse
• Recent choreography credits include South Pacific (Engeman Theater), Annie (Sharon Playhouse), The Prom (Sharon Playhouse)

• Co-founder, The Precision Dance Collective
• Appearances include Saturday Night Live (Sam Rockwell), America’s Got Talent, The Tony Awards
• Taught numerous Rockette Summer Intensives and Rockette Experiences

• Assisted and/or danced for Andy Blankenbuehler, Al Blackstone, Mandy Moore, Dee Caspary, Travis Wall and Sonya Tayeh
• Appeared dancing on FX’s Fosse/Verdon, The Tony Awards, Glee, America’s Got Talent and Dancing With the Stars
• Part of the Broadway company of Wicked and was on the National Tour of An American in Paris

• Worked with creators such as Cherice Barton, Phillip Chbeeb, Tyce Diorio, Ian Eastwood, Mike Esperanza, Juliette Irons, Lukas McFarlane, Sonya Tayeh, and more
• Featured in The New York Times, Dance Spirit Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, Dance Magazine, and Dance Informa
• Featured dancer in the movie “Supporting Characters,” directed by Daniel Schechter

• Artistic Director/Choreographer, chuthis
• Created works for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Staatstheater Augsburg, Charlotte Ballet II, Orlando Ballet Theatre, Giordano Dance Chicago, among others
• Premiered works for Giordano Dance Chicago & Gibney Dance Company, and choreographed for Cirque du Soleil’s Vitori

• Former Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for Radio City Rockettes
• Co-Founder: Precision Dance Collective
• Adjunct Professor – Marymount Manhattan College

• Original cast member role in Cirque Du Soleil’s Viva ELVIS! in Las Vegas
• Featured dancer on television shows/commercials such as “Glee”, “Fuller House”, ABC’s “The Secret Life of an American teenager”, and was a dancer in the films LA LA Land and Behind the Candelabra
• Worked closely with other choreographers such as Stacey Tookey, Spencer Liff, Vincent Paterson, Bonnie Story, Mia Michaels, Rich and Tone, Al Blackstone, among others

• Broadway, Chicago The Musical where he toured both nationally and internationally
• Only person to have performed as both a singer and a dancer in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
• Performance credits include Joseph…, and Billy Elliot (The Muny), Bye Bye Birdie (Lyric Theatre OKC), and more

• Theater Choreography: Freddie Falls in Love (Joyce Theater – July 2019), West Side Story (Maltz Theater), Pippin (Music Theater Wichita), Annie (Axelrod Performing Arts)
• TV/Film: So You Think You Can Dance (Emmy Nomination), Good Morning America
• Special Events: Broadway Bares, Gypsy of the year, Easter Bonnet, Princess Cruises