About Fort Wayne Ballet: Staff

Executive/Artistic Director

Karen Gibbons-Brown

Administrative
Staff

Director of Administration
Christy Sandmaier

Business Director
Christine Thompson

Academy Coordinator & Lower School Curricular Coordinator
Lucia Rogers

Director of Visual Art & Arts Literacy Outreach
Tess Heet

Development Officer
Genevieve Rodgers

Projects Manager
Lauren Slocum

Artistic
Staff

Men’s Division Coordinator & Choreographer
David Ingram

Intermediate School Curricular Coordinator & Youth Company Director
Alexis Ingram

Character Ensemble Director, Master Teacher & Choreographer
Eleanora Pokhitonova Hartung

Permanent Master Teacher
Radmila Teodorovic Novosel

Faculty
Juanita Araque
Jenna Bruin
Alexis Ingram
David Ingram
Amanda Kolkman
April Kuhn
Corey Mathews
HannahLeah Oeding
Lucia Rogers
Tracy Tritz

Musical Director
Nikolay Todorinov

Accompanists
Hope Arthur
Elena Abuladze Bardi
Ken Jiang

Photographers
Rob Borel
Dan Church
Jeff Crane
Margaret Distler
Tony Frantz
Barbara Mendez
Ken Rieves
Ramon Ulangca

Company
Dancers

Principal Dancers
Lucia Rogers
David Ingram

Apprentice
Juanita Araque
HannahLeah Oeding

Trainee
Kerry Coughlin
Corey Mathews