Vince di Mura
Resident Composer/Musical Director
Vince di Mura has appeared on concert stages and theaters throughout North America, Canada, Europe and Latin America. He has conducted theater seasons in virtually every region of the United States. He is best known for his arrangements of My Way: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra, Simply Simone, and I Left My Heart, (with over 1000 productions nationally). He is also the author of A Conversation With The Blues, a 14-part web instructional series on improvisation through the Blues produced by Soundfy, Inc. He holds fellowships from the William Goldman Foundation, Temple University, Meet the Composer, CEPAC, the Union County Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Cultural Forum, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. He has released seven independent CDs and has just completed a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa entitled Echos of the Great Migration for New Federal Theatre, which is scheduled for a New York City premiere in October 2025. Most recently, he has served as Musical Director/arranger and pianist for Summer Breeze, Chinese Jazz Fusion Ensemble, which has played concerts and festivals throughout the tristate area and released three albums in 2023-24, 6 music videos and an award-winning documentary. He is currently collaborating with Yusef Komunyakaa on an orchestral mega opus confronting the issues of climate change, commissioned by the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, for whom he was recently named Artist In Residence. The work will premiere at the Trenton War Memorial on October 25, 2025. In the near future, di Mura will be a guest soloist with the Edison Chinese Chorus at Lincoln center’s Rose Theatre on April 13, 2025.
Davalois Fearon
Choreographer
Davalois Fearon is a Bessie Award-winning, critically-acclaimed choreographer, dancer, and educator. Her dancing, praised by colleagues as “unapologetic” and by critics as “electrifying,” was honed over 12 years with the Stephen Petronio Company, where she was an audience favorite for her bold performances. Born in Jamaica and raised in the Bronx, Fearon’s choreography is said to embody a “tenacious virtuosity” that is now reflected in her work as founder and director of Davalois Fearon Dance (DFD). Established in 2016, DFD pushes artistic and social boundaries to provoke contemplation and address societal issues. Fearon’s work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at New York City venues such as the Joyce Theatre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New Victory Theater. Among many others, she has completed commissions for the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Barnard College. Her abundant honors and awards include Mosaic Network & Fund, DanceNYC’s Dance Advancement Fund Award, and grants from the MAP Fund and the Howard Gilman Foundation, and her company has received continuous support from the Bronx Council of the Arts. Fearon has been featured in publications including The New York Times and Dance Magazine; in poet Ntozake Shange’s book, Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance; in the documentary If the Dancer Dances; and most recently in the book A Year of Black Joy by Jamia Wilson. She holds an MFA in dance and is currently a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant Resident and a Core Faculty Lecturer in Princeton University’s Program in Dance.
Mary-Susan Gregson
Stage Manager
Mary-Susan Gregson has worked with Princeton University’s Program in Dance since 2012. Credits include Gabriel Kahane’s 8980: Book of Travelers, Lincoln Center’s Global Exchange: Art for Good, A Proust Sonata for Da Camera Chamber Music, Narcissus Now Festival for the Onassis Cultural Center, Sufjan Steven’s Round Up and Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador, both at Brooklyn Academy of Music. At the New Victory Theater she has stage-managed over 20 shows in the last 20 years and spent 20 summers production coordinating for Lincoln Center Festival. She has production-managed Divinamente Festival and the New Island Festival on Governor’s Island. New York City shows include Dance Africa, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Gate, BQE, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Jazz Nativity, Breaking the Code and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Regional credits include McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep, Williamstown, The Huntington, and the White House. She has toured with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus and internationally with Forbidden Christmas starring Baryshnikov.
Tamisha A. Guy
Choreographer
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Tamisha A. Guy studied at Ballet Tech under Eliot Feld, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and SUNY Purchase. She joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2013. Her awards include the 2016 Princess Grace Award and 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Dance. She was named one of Dance Magazine’s 2016 “Top 25 to Watch” and Dance Europe’s 2017 “Best Dancers of the Year.” Guy was a performer with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham from 2014 to 2025, serving as the Rehearsal Director from 2016-2019. She is currently a Dance Lecturer at Barnard College and the Founder of HUETAPE, a skin-toned kinesiology tape brand celebrating the unique needs of melanated individuals.
Mary Jo Mecca
Costume Design
Rebecca Lazier’s Noli Timere, in collaboration with Janet Echelman. Nicole Wolcotts’ Luggage Lost at Triskelion Arts; Ellen Cornfelds’ Raw Footage; Aaron Landsman’s Empathy School and Love Story at Abrons Art Center; Joanna Kotze’s Find Yourself Here at Baryshnikov Arts Center (2015); Liz Magic Laser’s Like You (2014); Laura Peterson’s Forever at The Kennedy Center (2013); Rashaun Mitchell’s Tesseract, Interface at Baryshnikov Arts Center and Nox at Danspace Project; Rebecca Lazier’s There Might Be Others at New York Live Arts (2016), Coming Together/Attica (2012/13) at the Invisible Dog and I Just Like This Music, Terminal (2009); Zvi Gotheiner’s Bear’s Ear, Detoura (2018), Escher/Bacon/Rothko, Surveillance (2014) at New York Live Arts; Sky and Water (2013) at the MUSA! Festival; Jody Sperling’s Time Lapse-Fantasy at Danspace Project; Laura Peterson Dance’s Atomic Orbital and traceroute; Barkin/Sellisen Project’s Differential Cohomology (2011); Susan Marshall’s Atelier project (2010); Brian Brooks’ Landing; Deganit Shemy’s Narrowline; Jill Johnson’s Folding Articulation; Graham Lustig’s Vault; and Raja Feather Kelly’s Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Mecca has designed for the Programs in Theater & Music Theater and Program in Dance at Princeton University since 2009. She studied Couture Design with Miss Alice Sapho of Paris and New York.
Matthew Neenan
Choreographer
Hailed by The New York Times as “One of America’s best dance poets,” Matthew Neenan began his dance training at the Boston Ballet School and with noted teachers Jacqueline Cronsberg and Nan Keating. He later attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and the School of American Ballet in New York City. Matthew danced with Pennsylvania Ballet (now Philadelphia Ballet) from 1994-2007 where he danced numerous Principal roles in the Balanchine and contemporary repertoire. He was also their resident choreographer from 2007-2020, where he created 20 ballets. In 2006, Neenan co-founded BalletX with Christine Cox. BalletX has toured Neenan’s choreography globally and to prestigious venues such as NY City Center, The Joyce Theater, The Kennedy Center, Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts, The Vail International Dance Festival (where he has created six world premieres), and Jacobs Pillow Festival, among many others. He has created world premieres for the New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Washington Ballet, Ballet West, Nashville Ballet, BodyTraffic, USC Kaufman School of Dance, and The Juilliard School, among several other companies and institutions. He has received numerous awards and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trust, The Choo San Goh Foundation, The Independence Foundation, and four fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Carolyn Wong
Lighting Design
Carolyn Wong is a New York-based lighting designer whose portfolio includes a diverse range of projects from intimate theatrical productions to internationally touring work. Favorites include Let Me Mingle Tears With Thee (Pacific Northwest Ballet / Jessica Lang), Come Through (a collaboration between TU Dance and Bon Iver), Rockin’ Road to Dublin (US Tour), Une Autre Passion (Le Ballet du Grande Théâtre de Genève/Pontus Lidberg), and Summer’s Winter Shadow (Ballet of Monte Carlo/Lidberg). She currently works as the Worldwide Associate Lighting Designer for Disney’s The Lion King. She is an alumna of Oberlin College and a native of San Francisco, California.
