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Performing Arts Faculty Bios

 

 

Janell Byrne (Ballet) a native of California, studied with Stanley Holden and Margaret Hills in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Alfredo Corvino, Ms. Byrne has taught at Mercer County Community College, Princeton University, Trenton State College, and the Lawrenceville School. She has performed with Dance-Works and Teamwork Dance and is Director of Mercer Dance Ensemble.  In addition to teaching ballet with the MCPAHS, Ms. Byrne is on the faculty of Mercer County Community College and the American Repertory  Ballet School in Princeton.

 

Cheryl Daddona (Dance) has taught Jazz Dance I & II, Ballet, Dance for Actors and Singers, and Pilates Exercise classes at MCPAHS.  She received her training at The School of the Princeton Ballet and from Butler University where she graduated in 1995 with a degree in dance.  She was a member of the Princeton Ballet II, a pre-professional dance company, where she performed in various productions including The Nutcracker. As a high school student she was selected by her school to attend the Governor's School of the Arts in New Jersey.  Miss "D" has been a member of the faculty at MCPAHS for the past nine years.  She has also taught at MCCC and The Princeton Ballet Society in addition to other dance studios throughout central New Jersey.  She had choreographed for Bordentown Regional High School's productions of West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, and The Music Man.  Her choreography has been performed by the Mercer Dance Ensemble and she was a featured artist with The Company of Music, Theatre and Dance in Jackson, NJ.

 

Peter deMets,  (Vocal Music) Mr. deMets, Voice Teacher and Accompanist, is the Artistic Director of the Chamber Arts Guild of Doylestown PA, and the Director of Music/Organist at Forest Grove Presbyterian Church. He also served for several seasons as the principle conductor of the Princeton Opera Association. He has conducted productions of West Side Story, The Secret Garden, Hansel and Gretel, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Bye Bye Birdie, Godspell, and Merrily We Roll Along.

 

Wendy Graham-Hugo (Drama Program Coordinator)

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Beverly Rigby (Drama/Speech)