performing artist | educator

Tiffany Mellard is a NYC-based performing artist and educator from Bronx, New York. She received training from Mind Builders Creative Arts Center, Norte Maar Conservatory of Dance, Harlem School of the Arts, the American Dance Festival and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She has performed works by Milton Myers, Sidra Bell, Nai Ni Chen, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Andy Blankenbuehler, Ann Reinking, Darshan Buller, Gerri Houlihan, and many others. Tiffany is a recipient of the Dr. Randolph A. Goodman Award for Excellence in Dance and received her BFA in Dance with a certificate in Arts in Community Practice from Florida State University. She received her Ed.M. in Arts in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an emphasis on arts advocacy, decolonizing dance pedagogy, and advocates for increased access to arts education and mentorship for Black and Brown youth.

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Tiffany was most recently performing with the "And Peggy" company of Hamilton: An American Musical (Puerto Rico, San Francisco, West Coast US & Canada).  Other credits include Memphis (Gateway Playhouse), Chicago The Musical (National Tour), and West Side Story (International Tour).  She was a member of Victory Dance Project and Nathan Trice/RITUALS Dance Theater and was a performer in "La Medea" by Yara Travieso. She has appeared in ads by Kate Spade, American Express, SONY, Carol's Daughter, and Under Armour and studied acting at T. Schreiber Studio, Heidi Marshall Studio, and MN Acting Studio.

As a dance educator, Tiffany has been a teaching artist with Arts Ignite, Learning Through An Expanded Arts Program (LEAP), Spotlight Performing Arts Company, and Mind Builders Creative Arts Center, and has taught workshops across the United States and abroad. Tiffany is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and serves as a Board Member of Dancewave, a Brooklyn-based dance education nonprofit.   She is represented by CESD Talent Agency (NY) in their dance and commercial divisions and Abbey Lynn Models for print modeling.

Tiffany is also an avid playlist curator on Apple Music and a self-proclaimed foodie who loves to travel- onstage and around the world. 

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