EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Richard M. Dee
Executive Director (bio)
314.534.6622
rdee@dancestlouis.org

ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP

Michael Uthoff (bio)
Artistic Director
muthoff@dancestlouis.org 

STAFF

(in alphabetical order)

Julie Ballard
Production Stage & Lighting Manager
SPRING TO DANCE® Festival

Julie Ridge
Graphic Designer

Michele Ryan
Grant Writer
mryan@dancestlouis.org

Berrien Tedford
Finance & Business Affairs
btedford@dancestlouis.org

Sarah Thompson
Marketing, PR, Advertising, Digital Content Creation & Media
Sarah Thompson LLC
marketing@dancestlouis.org

Paige Van Nest
Education Outreach Program Assistant

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board President
Melinda Ligon, Physician (retired)

Board Treasurer
Katrina Pon, Risk Management Business Director, McCarthy Holdings, Inc.  

Board Secretary
Priscilla Kurz, Community Volunteer

Chairman Emeritus
Ken Kranzberg, Chairman, TricorBraun

Jon Deuchler, Executive Director (retired), Transaction Models Reinsurance Group of America
Amy Eidelman, Equity Research Analyst, Daytona Street
Marcia Mellitz, Consulting services for entrepreneurship, innovation and technology
Leigh Pratter, Community Volunteer
Joseph Robertson, Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Mark Rynasiewicz, Partner, &Partners
Donald Suggs, Publisher & Executive Editor, St. Louis American

PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS
Jesika Barnes
Jennifer Davis
John Foley
Paul Kalsbeek
Richard Kluesner
Ken Kranzberg
Mark Lindgren
William Lortz †
Kent Reynolds †
Tom Voss
Richard Winter

ADVISORY BOARD
Susan Block
Ramsey Botterman
Bert Condie †
Steven Cousins
David Diener
Barbara Eagleton
Jean Gase
Judy Harris
Gary Hoemann
Mary Ann Hogan
Joanne Kohn
Susan Luedke, MD
Karen Myers
Jerrie House Plegge
Ruthe Ponturo
Eriko Clevenger Pope
Lynn Ricci
Peggy Ritter
Dorothea Rosner
Mary Rumy
Marsha Rusnack
Peter Sargent †
Connie Schnuck
Judi Shepard
Thad and Betty Simons
Mary Strauss,
Philip Taxman
Blanche M. Touhill
James Virtel
Michele Walter
Mary Worseck

LIFETIME MEMBERS
Bourne Bean †
Anne Blatherwick
Jean Maritz Hobler †
Joy Melman †
S. Lee McMillan †
Joan Wendt †

FOUNDER
Annelise Mertz †

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EMERITA
Sally Brayley Bliss

† In Memoriam