Megan Hardee is a Wilson native that began her dance education at the age of three.  She grew up taking classes at The Massey School of Dance.  She graduated from Elon University in May 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing and a Minor in Dance.  While at Elon, she took classes in Tap, Jazz, Modern, Improvisation, and Dance History.  She has been the Director as well as an instructor at Megan’s Academy of Dance since 2006.  She enjoys her career thoroughly and loves the “dance family” that Megan’s Academy of Dance has created.   

Lindsay Haynie began her dance training at a local dance studio in Cary, NC.  She began dancing at the age of 3 and has taken everything from ballet, jazz, and lyrical to modern, tap, and clogging.  After graduating from Cary High School in 2003, Lindsay attended UNC-Greensboro to pursue a degree in modern dance.  In 2004, she transfered to East Carolina University.  It was at ECU where she was able to really develop as a dancer and choreographer.  She took a variety of courses including: Jazz, Ballet, Modern, Improvisation, Choreography, Creative Dramatics, Theater Management, and Dance History.  She has attended the Jazz Dance World Congress in Chicago and was selected to perform in a piece by Roger Belman at the American Dance Festival in 2005.  At ECU, Lindsay performed in the annual Dance Theater, and Senior Choreography shows each semester.  Several of these pieces were selected to compete at the American College Dance Festival and in 2006 two of these pieces were awarded a slot in the Final Gala Performance.  Lindsay graduated Magna Cum Laude from ECU in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance with a concentration in Jazz.  

Amanda McCullum is a Wilson native that began her dance career at the age of 7, taking lessons at The Massey School of Dance.  In 2007 she received a B.A. in Dance concentration in Private Studio Teaching, from Meredith College in Raleigh NC.  While at Meredith Ms. Amanda was a member of the Meredith Dance Theatre, an audition based performance group.  As a part of this group she was able to work with and perform works by artist such as Valerie Midgett, Peter DiMuro, Bebe Miller, Katherine Ferrier, Talani Torres, Joan Nicholas-Walker, and Carol Finley.  Ms. McCullum has performed at the American College Dance Festival in Washington D.C., Columbus Ohio, and Richmond Virginia.  Her senior year she was voted by her peers to receive the Meredith Dance Theatre Dedication award.  She was also awarded the Metamorphosis award from the dance faculty at Meredith.  Ms. Amanda has performed professionally in the North Carolina Dance Festival in works from Talani Torres and Anna Milling Smith. Ms. Amanda is currently the Director of Dance at Hunt High School here in Wilson, NC.  She loves teaching dance, and feels lucky that she gets to inspire art in her students each day of her life! 

Rebekah Shingleton began her dance studies as a child at Studio 86 Danceworks under Robb Beaman.  She also studied at The Greenville Civic Ballet under Kim Saad.  She now continues her dance studies at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina where she has studies under Carol Kyles Finly, Talani Torres, Cindy Hoban and Joan Nicholas-Walker.  At Meredith she is a member of their audition based modern company, The Meredith Dance Theatre (MDT).  Through MDT Rebekah had the privilege of dancing at the American College Dance Festival in the spring of 2008.  Also in the fall of 2008 she had the opportunity to display her choreography “Wills against Wants” in the adjudicated student showcase at the North Carolina Dance Alliance.  She thoroughly enjoys the company and will be lost when she will have to leave the MDT family.