Dance Company Director appointed Assistant Professor of Theatre
August 14, 2001
Cheryl Mrozowski, fourteen-year director of the Wheaton Dance Company, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Theatre at Wheaton. In addition to her work with the dance company, Professor Mrozowski will teach ballet and modern jazz for academic credit and will join the theatre department in team-teaching Movement and Dance for the Theatre.
Professor Mrozowski received her early training as a member of the State Ballet of Rhode Island and launched her performing career with the Dayton Ballet and the Cambridge Opera Ballet in England. She continued her performing career in the U.S. with the Peninsula Ballet Theater and the Esperance Dance Theater. After earning a BA in history from Salve Regina University, Professor Mrozowski earned a master's in dance from American University where she served on the faculty for four years. She has also been a faculty member at Auburn University's master of fine arts program in professional actor training.
She has taught at the Southwestern Regional Ballet Festival in Dallas, at Goucher College and has conducted master classes in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Actively involved with the training and education of young dancers, Professor Mrozowski is on the summer faculty of the Acton School of Ballet in Acton, Mass, is the president of the Board of Directors of the Jeannette Neill Scholarship Program in Boston, and serves as scholarship chair for the Miss Rhode Island Scholarship Program. She and her family live in Newport, Rhode Island.
Last updated on 8/14/01.
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