Resume - Directing
Founded the UpBring Dance Company in NYC
Ran from 2001 to 2013
Dance studio for kids ages 2-15
Managed a staff of 15 teachers, costume designers, tech, and office personnel
Ran 10 classes a week in jazz, hip hop, toddler dance, musical theater, and Touring Company
Booked shows and organized travel for the advanced troupe
Produced over 12 original, high tech shows, 4 broadway revivals, and 40 Tri-state public performances. (Complete show listing upon request)
Director/Choreographer At City Lights Youth Theatre:
Dance Dance Dance 2010
Comedy Tonight 2009
Lights, Camera, Accident 2008
Lights On Broadway 2007
What If? 2006
Annie 2006
All Shook Up Benefit concert 2006
Miss Nelson is Missing 2005
Pirates of Penzance 2004
West Side Story 2003
Of Thee I Sing 2003
Free to Be You and Me 2002
Wit’s End 2001
Director/Choreographer of Student Productions
At Hannah Senesh Community Day School, Brooklyn, NY:
Once Upon a Mattress 2013
Music Man 2012
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown 2011
Willy Wonka +and the Chocolate Factory 2010
Oklahoma! 2009
Wizard of Oz 2008
Peter Pan 2007
Annie 2006
Free to Be You and Me 2005
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown 2004
Fiddler on the Roof 2003
NYC Teaching Experience
Kindergarten Head Teacher - Hannah Senesh Community Day School
Brooklyn Public Library - Dance Workshops
PS 2 - In School residency
PS 140 - In School residency
Tada! Youth Theater - In School residency
One Arm Red - Acting workshop
Dancer/choreographer
Resume - Performing
NYC
Life is a Dream - NYU Tisch School of the Arts
The Fabulous Entourage rock band choreographer
Broadway Dance Center’s Performance Outlet choreo.Debbie Wilson
Ballets: Nutcracker, Firebird, Giselle, Le Corsaire, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Midsummer Night’s Dream
Certification of Dance Teaching through Broadway Dance Center’s The Pulse
Education/Training
BA English, Dance Minor - University of Michigan
Broadway Dance Center, Peridance, Weist-Baron, Peter Sklar, National Ballet of NJ, Duffin School of Ballet
Off-Broadway Theater
NYC
The Vagina Monologues - Produced by V-day.org and 3 +Crazy Ladies, The Soho Playhouse, 2006
The Minotaur - Director Kristina O’neil for the Luminous Group, Pantheon Theater, 2005
Lysistrata - Director G. Forster, Impact Theater and Mainz Playhouse in Germany, 2004

Television
Del Taco Commercial
Life and Times of Milo, Comedy Central
MTV2 Promo Commercials
Schools or organizations looking to enhance their performing arts department may contact me at:
Contact
sharipolis@gmail.com
917-753-3291