Our People
School Staff & Faculty
To be the very best, you must train with the very best.
The School maintains a faculty of over 50 instructors. Our prestigious faculty are joined from time to time by current Kansas City Ballet company members and artistic staff, as well as renowned guest teaching artists. Many classes are taught to live piano accompaniment, a crucial element in developing the student’s understanding of the relationship between music and movement.
Staff
Artistic
Devon Carney, Artistic Director
Oliver Till, School Director
Kimberly Cowen, Principal & KCYB Director
Taryn Ouellette, Principal, South Campus at Meadowbrook
Dmitry Trubchanov, Men’s Program Coordinator & KCYB Associate Director
Jordan Voth, Company Pianist/Principal Academy Pianist
Jacob Thomas, Academy and R.O.A.D. Pianist
Administrative
Sean Duus, R.O.A.D. Residency Coordinator
Miyesha McGriff, R.O.A.D. Program Administrator
Rachel Grisi Dugan, Summer Intensive Coordinator
Nora Burkitt-Davis, Children’s Program & Adaptive Dance Coordinator
Erin Rice-Oyler, South Campus Administrator
Miana Abramson, Adrienne Anderson, Allay Freeman, Katherine Jackson, Miles Orvetti, Sarah Wilczewski, Hope Wampler Administrative Assistants
Faculty
Academy
- Iyonna Barris
- Brigitte Benyei
- Chelsea Brown Villamayor
- Winston Brown
- Tara Burgat
- Nora Burkitt-Davis
- Christina Burton
- Alexis Byerly
- Pamela Carney
- Tamara Carson
- Kimberly Cowen
- Caroline Dahm
- Rachel Grisi Dugan
- Sean Duus
- Olivia Emert
- Stephanie Eppler
- Georgia Fuller
- Tess Gadwood
- Sidney Haefs
- Maureen Hall
- Michele Hamlett-Weith
- Jeremy Hanson
- Jaime Hickey
- Lauren Holmes
- Debbie Jacobs-Huffaker
- Tobin James
- Joshua Kiesel
- Elaine Kimble
- Haley Kostas
- Kramer Kreiling
- Hannah Lareau
- Susan Lewis
- Skyler Linn
- Gabriel Lorena
- Sam McReynolds
- Erin Muenks
- Tempe Ostergren
- Taryn Ouellette
- Jennifer Owen
- Taryn Pachciarz
- Andrew Parker
Open division
- Christina Burton, DANCEFIX, Jazz
- Tamara Carson, Flamenco
- Christine Colby-Jacques, Jazz
- Sean Duus, Ballet
- Melissa Ford, Tap
- Maureen Hall, Ballet
- Michele Hamlett-Weith, Ballet, BeMoved
- Alyssa Jones, DANCEFIX
- Debbie Jacobs-Huffaker, Ballet
- Kramer Kreiling, Ballet
- Linda Mitchell, Ballet
- Taryn Ouellette, Ballet
- Jennifer Owen, Yoga
- Jenny Schmidt, Ballet Bod
- Lisa Sirridge, Pilates, PBT
- Susan Williams, Ballet
Accompanists
- Rosie O’Brien
- Noila Ortega
- Andrew Ouellette
- William Puckett
- Angie Roustio
- Jaclyn Rylee
- RJ Schultze
- Cameron Thomas
- Jacob Thomas
- Jordan Voth
- Yee-Sik Wong
- Xiangyu Zhao