MeEt tHE TeaM
Jennifer J
Studio Director at CAST Dance Academy, Jennifer is a graduate from UCLA Theatre, Film and Television with a BA in Theatre. Involved since the inception of CAST, she currently serves as the Administrator of CAST Academy. With over 40 directing credits, she also enjoys directing the annual dance performances. Also, Jennifer is a licensed Music Together director and teacher.
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Shannon M
Shannon Mueller holds an MA in Performance Psychology, a BFA in Dance Performance, a Minor in Integrated Educational Studies, and is a certified PBT instructor. Shannon is formally trained in ballet, jazz, modern, and tap.
Shannon has won numerous awards for her choreography, which has been presented internationally and worldwide.
Lucinda S
Lucinda is a dance teacher here at CAST Academy and teaches ballet, tap, jazz, and lyrical. She began dancing at the age of four and has been trained in various styles of dance including ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, hip hop and contemporary.
Lucinda loves children, creativity, choreography and coaching.
London B
London trained for 15 years at Elite Dance Academy in Orange County, California. Her education at Elite included extensive training in Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, and Hip-Hop. London is an assistant and co-choreographer for Palomar College's hip hop and contemporary. She teaches Lyrical, Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, and Strength & Conditioning.
Izabella S
Izzy is a trained dancer and teacher from Yuma, Arizona. She is skilled in numerous dance styles, including Hip Hop, Jazz, Ballet/Pointe, Musical Theater, and Tumbling. She has also danced competitively and was a teacher’s assistant under the mentorship of her instructors. Currently, Izzy is pursuing a degree in Theatre Arts and is thrilled to begin this new chapter with CAST.
Lois May B
Lois is originally from the UK, where she trained at professional ballet schools gaining a BA degree in Ballet Performance. Since then she has toured across the UK and US with companies such as Northern Ballet, Moscow Ballet and more. Career highlights include dancing iconic Ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and other classical and neoclassical works. Lois teaches Ballet and is also working towards her Pilates Instructor qualification.
Chloe A
Chloe has been dancing for 17yrs, training in ballet, jazz, lyrical, tap, acro, contemporary, ballroom, and is a former competitive dancer and titleholder. She now shares her love of dance by helping others find their passion and confidence through movement.
Eden A
Eden, originally from Tiburon, California, began dancing at 8 with the Boston Ballet in "Alice in Wonderland." She studied ballet and jazz at the Worcester Academy School of Performing Arts in Massachusetts, earning a BA in Dance Therapy and an MS in Physical Education from the University of Maine.
Patricia H
Patty is the Original Founder of CAST Dance Academy, in 1993 out of a desire to fill a need when theatre classes were cut from the public school budgets. Patty has mentored and shared theatre with over 2,000 children. She is still an integral part of our team here at CAST!