Artistic Associate and School of Richmond Ballet Director
Judy Jacob (Artistic Associate and School Director) is from Detroit, where she studied ballet with Evelyn Smith. She trained in London, England, with Anne Heaton, John Field and Valerie Taylor, and at Butler University and Indiana University with George Verdak, William Glenn, Peggy Dorsey, Anton Dolin, and Kenneth Melville. Ms. Jacob performed with the Butler Ballet and Indiana Ballet Theatre, and was a principal dancer with Memphis Ballet for seven years. She created roles in ballets by choreographers Ron Cunningham, Jill Eathorne Bahr, Norbert Vesak, Robert Kelley, and Philip Jerry. She was Associate Artistic Director of Fort Wayne Ballet prior to joining Richmond Ballet in 1995. Ms. Jacob was appointed Assistant Ballet Master in 1996, and has been The School of Richmond Ballet Director since 1998.

Full-time Faculty
Igor Antonov, Jasmine Grace, Anne Sidney Hetherington, Arnott Mader, Susan Israel Massey, and Tara Penick

Part-time Faculty
Igor Antonov, Paul Dandridge, Starr Foster, Kaye Weinstein Gary, Rebecca Hodal, Paige Horton, Jerami Kipp, John Massey, Laura McNeill, Patricia Mochary, Emily Poff, Kathie Reinoehl, Melanie Richards, Sarah Ruppel, Katie Lynch Skaggs, Katherine Smothers, Jerome Weiss

Music Supervisor
Katherine Bishop

Accompanists
Beth Almore, Susan Beck, Blanton Bradley, Virginia Campbell, Bentley Cobb, Darryl Emerson, Donna Fitzgerald, Faith John, Pete Mathis, John Murdock, Ken Myers, Kayla Nielsen, Emily Poff, Kathie Reinoehl, David Robbins, Rachel Shimkus, Jim Smithson, Tricia Vesely, Laura Candler-White

School Manager: Rebecca Weger

School Administrator: Susan Collet

School Business Manager: Kim Chiarchiaro

Registrar: Susan Compton