As Executive Artistic Director and lead instructor, Andrea has begun her own LLC: Amalgam Arts & Wellness, whose focus is connecting the arts with health and wellness. We like to think of dance as "physical therapy", drama as "mental therapy", and music as "emotional therapy" (note: not to be confused with full and accredited expressive arts therapy).

Currently, she is revising her business to truly merge the arts with holistic health by infusing Reiki into all her sessions and continuing her education in holistic health. For more information, feel free to Contact Andrea!

Andrea began working with Fairmount Center for the Arts as their Dance Director in May 2022. She currently teaches hip hop classes as well, and occasionally has taken on theater classes or other forms of dance.

Although her job describes her as the head of the dance department--leading dance faculty and putting together events such as dance recital performances-- she is always ready and willing to help with other departments (theater, art, music) whenever she is needed.

For more information about Fairmount Center for the Arts and all that they offer, visit their website at FairmountCenter.org.

Since 2018, Andrea has worked with the Beck Center as a teaching artist in theater and dance, and instructing one of her favorite classes with some of her favorite students: the summer musical theater camp. The musical theater camp runs every summer in late July for teenagers in middle school and high school, and performs an array of songs from the wide spectrum of musical theater.

For more information, visit www.beckcenter.org .

Through Playhouse Square, Disney Musicals in Schools goes into elementary schools in Cleveland deprived of theater and musical theater programming, and assists them in making a sustainable theater program. Students from four carefully selected schools put on Disney shows for their community, then come together for a Student Share: a performance of each school's best number, and the coming together of each school to perform the Disney Musicals in Schools song, "Starts With a Dream." Andrea has been a teaching artist for this program since it began in the Cleveland are in 2015. For more information on Disney Musicals in Schools and/or Playhouse Square, visit www.playhousesquare.org.

Andrea is very active in the Northeast Ohio theater community, and currently fills in as an independent teaching artist for Ohio Contemporary Ballet, Playhouse Square, and DANCECleveland, and is on the Ohio Teaching Artist Roster.

In order to be the best artist and instructor she can, she continues her education through yoga and dance lessons with various Cleveland professionals, and with piano and vocal coaching with the talented Sharolyn Ferebee. She also continues professional development and certificates to improve her teaching artistry.

You may also find her in various places behind the scenes as a choreographer, stage manager, or dresser. You can view her resume upon request.