Peter Powlus has worked in musical theater, television, radio, film, opera, dinner theater, theme parks, historical drama, mime theater, children’s theater, fashion shows, ballroom dance, industrials, and repertory dance with numerous esteemed companies. Peter directed “The Little Mermaid” for CYT Atlanta several years ago. As a choreographer, Peter has created work for many highly regarded dance and musical theater companies and won many accolades, including Regional Dance America’s William Habich Award for Choreography (emerging) and their Project Tier Award (professional). Peter’s teaching experience is diverse and extensive. He has frequently been a guest teacher/choreographer at the Georgia Governor’s Honors Program and workshops throughout the region, including Greenville Ballet, Tennessee Dance Association, and University of South Carolina Summer Dance Institute. Peter was the jazz dance instructor for the 1991 and 1996 Southeast Region RDA Festivals, where his unique style was offered to hundreds of students from throughout the southeast. Peter has served the Georgia community as a member of the Georgia Council for the Arts Dance Panel for Organizational Grants and on the Greater Augusta Arts Council, who presented him with the Individual Artist of the Year Award for 2006, having been nominated by his peers. Peter is enjoying frequent voice acting opportunities, performs character rolls with local dance productions, and continues to teach tap, jazz, modern, and musical theater, as well as the occasional Intro to Stage Combat and Renaissance Swordplay class. He contributes choreography to repertory companies and musical theater productions throughout the region and performs in Nutcracker productions in Georgia and South Carolina. He recently completed a residency with the University of South Carolina in Columbia where he taught classes and restaged an extended excerpt from his acclaimed full length bluegrass ballet, The Legend of the Hatfields and McCoys.