![]() Laura also directed Peter Pan, JR Shrek, JR and Madagascar, JR all here at MTC. ![]() Laura co-directed the Junior Theatre Festival’s (JTF) version of James and the Giant Peach that won the top award given at the national festival – the “Outstanding Performance Award”, directed and wrote the JTF version of The Little Mermaid, JR, where the students won an “Excellence in Dance” award, directed Aladdin, JR, as well as the JTF version of Aladdin, JR where the students won an “Excellence in Acting” award. College of Charleston theatre education undergraduate and graduate students helped lead the experiences which have taken place in New York City and Charleston the past 3 summers. Professor Turner also co-created the “We the People Summer Experience” which brings together MTC middle and high school students with students from NYC to build bridges across racial divides using immersive history and theatre experiences. Musical Theatre Center (MTC) students have been a part of the program as well. This program was a top ten national finalist for the “Robert Gard Arts in the Community” Award winner of the State Commission for Higher Education Community Service Award and won the state award for “Excellence in Parks and Recreation Programming”. In 2008, she created a program for special needs theatre with the City of Charleston Therapeutic Recreational Services. Since 1994, she has been an Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of Charleston where she began the Theatre for Youth program and a Masters program preparing K12 music and theatre teachers. in composition for Music Theatre concurrently from New York University. Laura Turner (Music Director/Director) Laura received her B.F.A. Over the last 10 years, since 2011, Allyson has produced 32 titles for MTC, and with repeat performances 50 musicals to date. Allyson formed Once Upon a Ballet in 2004 upon her return to SC. Allyson has been teaching for 14 years, specializing in pre-ballet, creative dance and jazz for musical theatre. She has traveled as far as Portici, Italy to teach ballet as a volunteer at Casa Materna Orphanage for children ages 3 – 16. She was among the last of the American casts featured at Seagaia’s Ocean Dome in Miyazaki, Japan where she performed in over 900 shows and danced the feature role of the Fish Queen. ![]() Skilled in ballet, jazz, modern, musical theatre, and tap dance styles, Allyson danced professionally in New York and Japan. ![]() In New York, she danced professionally and performed works by nationally acclaimed artists such as Twyla Tharp, Ronald K. She received a talent scholarship to attend New York University’s prestigious Tisch of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. Combining her passions for ballet, theatre, and costumes studied dance at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, where she danced for the Greenville Ballet and attended the SC Governor’s School for the Arts. Allyson Lewis (Founding Owner/ Ballet & Jazz Instructor) began Once Upon a Ballet in 2004 as a true labor of love. ![]()
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