Ms. Combest received her initial training from Joni Reese-Nabor, who toured with the Roxyettes & the USO, former Dance Masters of America president Donna (Reese) Byrd, and Tim Roberts, whose credits include the Broadway show Jelly's Last Jam and the opening/closing ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Games. She has received her B.F.A. in Dance Performance from Towson University, and will be pursuing her M.F.A. in Dance Education in the spring of 2009. JR has been teaching in the DC Metropolitan, Maryland, and Pennsylvania areas for the past 15 years in all genres of dance including tap, jazz, lyrical, musical theater, and hip hop. She has been a member of the Towson University Dance Company, the Towson University Dance Team, and the MD All-Star Twisters Open Dance Team. She has also participated in various workshops such as DMA, NYDCA, Tremaine, and most recently, Monsters of Hip Hop. She has been privileged to have taken master classes from some of the top choreographers in the country including: Rhodie Jorgenson, Mandy Moore (So You Think You Can Dance), the D'Umo's (America's Next Best Dance Crew), Dianne Walker, Dave Scott (You Got Served & Stomp the Yard), Marty Kudelka (Justin Timberlake), Jamal Simms (Hairspray, Step Up & Step Up 2) and Brian Friedman (Britney Spears & So You Think You Can Dance). Her choreography has been seen in various dance and cheer competitions, Annapolis Summer Garden Theater, The Talent Machine Company, The Junior Redskin All-Stars and several IFBB, NPC, and OCB Fitness Competitions. She is currently on staff at B. Funk Dance Company, Stageworkz Theater Arts Project, and The Monsters of Hip Hop tour.

Ms. Dawson grew up in Texas, where she graduated from Angelo State University with a degree in Performing Arts under the tutelage of Academy Award Winner, Karl Malden. After touring with Troupe d' Jour Shakespeare Company, she moved to New York City and worked in independent film and television for five years on such shows as Law and Order SVU, One Life to Live, and All My Children. Amy also worked in plays Off Broadway, most notably Tony Kushner's, Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. In New York, Amy studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the School for Film and Television. She now works as a performer and acting instructor in the Baltimore / Washington DC area.

Ms. Rodgers is a senior at Towson University as a Dance Performance and Education major. She began her dance training at Patty Neivert's School of dance, then trained and taught at The Westminster Conservatory for the Performing Arts. She spent her junior and senior year training with Janette Sullivan at State of the Arts and the Westminster Ballet Theater. Once accepted into the Dance program at Towson she began teaching at various studios in the Maryland and Pennsylvania areas. Throughout her fours years at Towson she has performed in many student and faculty works, most recently in the senior seminar concert. She has taught classes for ages 3 to adult in many genres such as ballet and hip hop. She has choreographed and performed for musical plays, hip hop events, dance recitals, and vocal groups. Once her student teaching is complete she will graduate in the fall of 2008. She hopes to continue her training and studies in graduate school.

Ms. Schaffner was first introduced to dance at the age of three. Since that time, dance has been a significant part of her life. She has been dancing competitively since the age of six, at which time she truly caught "the fever". Over the last sixteen years, her dance training has included the disciplines of Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary, Pointe, Hip-hop, Tap, and Ballroom. Recent accomplishments include being awarded Miss Showbiz 2007 in the regional adjudicated competition in Virginia, one of the top 50 dancers on Fox's second season of "So You Think You Can Dance", was a dancer on MTV's "My Sweet Sixteen:" in November 2007, and scholarship winner at numerous dance competitions such as Starpower, Showbiz, and Hollywood Vibe. Nicole attends Anne Arundel Community College as a Business major. She is also a member of the school's Dance Company. In addition, she has recently completed her final year of dance for the C&C Dance Company, where she has competed in regional and national competitions across the US-most notably in the arts centers of New York City, Las Vegas, NV, and in Disneyworld, Orlando FL. Nicole also attended the Baltimore School for the Arts as a dance major. She has been active as a student teacher in several dance studios locally. She has choreographed performances for Meade High School, Northeast High School, Central Middle School and West Annapolis Elementary School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. In 2005, she assisted choreographer, Erin Vitalos, at the "Show Me the Money" convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nicole plans to continue her commitment to technique and performance quality and the advancement of young students through teaching.

Mr. Smith appeared as Jack in Reefer Madness at Studio Theatre, where he was seen in Caroline or Change, The Long Christmas Ride Home, and his performance in A Class Act received a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Local credits include the US Premier of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych and the critically acclaimed Musical of Musicals, the Musical at MetroStage, A Year with Frog and Toad at The Roundhouse Theatre (Helen Hayes nomination), Elmer Gantry at Fords Theater and Petite Rouge at The New York Musical Theater Festival and Imagination Stage. As an actor and director he has worked at The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alley Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Company of Fools, Barter Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre, TheatreVirginia, and Center Stage in Baltimore. On Broadway, he appeared in Crazy for You and Christmas with Billy Porter a limited engagement for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Off Broadway, Forever Plaid (original cast), Kander and Ebb's The World Goes' Round, the revival of George Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing and the Stephen Schwartz project, Snapshots. National Tours included Brigadoon, and The World Goes Round. Mr. Smith teaches theater, dance, and music to gifted and talented high school students in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.