Jill A. Brighton
has performed professionally with the Pennsylvania Dance Theatre in State College for eleven years, as well as with Happendance in Lansing, Michigan, and in New York with the Great Wave Dance Ensemble. She has been directing the Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop since 1994 and is the Artistic Director of the Fraser Street Dancers there. A native of State College, Jill has been dancing since she was four. She graduated with highest honors from Penn State University, and has since served frequently on the dance faculty there. At Penn State Jill performed with the Contemporary Dance Company and toured Israel with the Dance Collective. At the Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop, Jill has been active in teaching all styles of dance to both children and adults.

Tiffany Finamore
is currently residing in Altoona, PA and the daughter of Colleen and Duane Ehredt Sr. In 2008 Finamore graduated with her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance from Slippery Rock University. During her time there, she participated in Slippery Rock University Dance Theatre for two years as a dancer and choreographer. Her choreography for the solo “Warrioress” has been performed for e.da.co’s debut concerts in Pittsburgh and Buffalo, NY and for LABCO’s Blackbox Concert Series in Pittsburgh.

Jennifer Keller
For the last ten years, Jennifer Keller has been developing solo and duet repertory, drawing on the influences of technology, improvisation, contact improvisation and her experiences as an eight year company member of Mark Taylor & Friends (NYC) and the Pittsburgh Dance Alloy. Her repertory earned a spot on Pittsburgh’s 2002 top ten dance list by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, an award from the Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award from Pittsburgh Magazine. Her choreography has been commissioned by professional companies including Labco Dance, Dance Alloy, and Cleveland’s Dance Theater Collective, as well as by numerous university dance programs. Jennifer has studied extensively with Nina Martin and Martin’s training systems of Ensemble Thinking, Articulating the Solo Body and Rewire/States Work. She currently serves on faculty at Slippery Rock University, and is a certified Core Dynamics Pilates instructor. She received an MFA from Arizona State University and a BA from Connecticut College.

Tina Konrath
has been dancing with The Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop and Pennsylvania Dance Theatre for nearly 20 years. She was a member of various student ensemble performances and has danced with PDT since the 2001 season. Tina, a former gymnast, has extensively studied and practiced Pilates and various forms of yoga for many years. In her role as PDT Board President, Tina was instrumental in reviving the company from near bankruptcy. She continues as the PDT Board President and works locally for Minitab Inc. as a Group Executive for Sales, Technical Support, and Training.

Sheila McKenna
works regularly as an actress and a director. Sheila has played a broad variety of roles, including classical (“Fool” in King Lear, the Rep), modern (“May” in Footfalls, PICT), and contemporary (“Vermandero”, Dog Face, Quantum/Festival D’otono, Madrid). Recent acting credits include “Nadya” in the Rep’s The Vertical Hour and “Minka” in City Theatre’s Murderers. She has been involved in a number of new plays as a writer, actress or director in her career; recent world premieres include acting in Quantum Theatre’s Le Gran Meaulnes (directed by Di Trevis) and Michele Lowe’s Mezzulah, 1946 for City Theatre; and directing Bruce Dow’s Wilde Tales (two musical adaptations of The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant) for Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, and Tammy Ryan’s The Gift of the Pirate Queen for Playhouse Jr. and FBI Girl for the Rep. She directed Riders to the Sea and Shadow of the Glen for PICT’s Synge Festival; the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cited these plays in their Top Ten Best Theatre of 2008. She recently directed Kurt Weill’s Down in the Valley for Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh/CAPA. Among many memorable acting ollaborations, she has played opposite Fred Rogers (Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood) a UFO (Unsolved Mysteries), and a pair of horse hooves (thanks to Christopher Durang). She is half of a drag music-comedy act, The Muthers Brothers, and her film work includes An Unremarkable Life, Alone in the Neon Jungle, and Achilles’ Love. She has written two short plays, Wanted and Hum, both produced by the Women’s Work Festival. Sheila was named 2005 Performer of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Julie Snyder
(dancer) has been a student and lover of dance all her life, and is thrilled to be dancing with PDT. She trained from age 3 at Pauline Baker-Rodgers School of Dance in Altoona. During her college years and after, she has been a part of the Centre region dance scene, choreographing and teaching for groups such as the PSU Thespians, Dance Fusion and Joshua House in Tyrone, as well as being a current member on the Board of the Central PA Dance Workshop. In 2003, she founded the Keystone Church Dance Team which has performed locally as well as in Baltimore. Snyder currently lives in State College where she works from home as an administrative assistant to her husband Will, a part-time seamstress and a full time mom to her son, Liam.

Jil Stifel
is a former company member of Attack Theatre, with whom she performed extensively in Japan, Monaco, Indonesia, Germany, and throughout the United states, and Miro Dance Theatre, with whom she performed works by Amanda Miller and Antony Rizzi. As a member of Labco Dance and performing with Pennsylvania Dance Theatre she had the opportunity to work with various independent choreographers including Kevin Wynn, Sean Curran, Kevin McGee and André Koslowski. While in Pittsburgh Stifel had the wonderful opportunity to work extensively with Kyle Abraham. She has also performed the work of Jennifer Keller as a guest artist with Dance Alloy. Since relocating to Philadelphia Jil has worked with local choreographers Erin Foreman Murray, Meg Foley, and Myra Bazell, as well as improvisation based companies Perpetual Movement and sound, and herebegin Dance co. Outside of modern dance venues she was delighted to perform the role of the princess in l’histoire du soldat with the Pittsburgh symphony. Stifel's choreography and multi-media projects have been presented in the United States and Japan. She holds a B.F.A. with highest honors in dance from Rutgers University, Mason Gross school of the arts.