Lisa Rumbauskas

Lisa Rumbauskas performed with the Metropolitan Opera’s Armida at Lincoln Center under the direction of Mary Zimmerman and starring Renee Fleming. Her other credits include Swing! (Bway National Tour), Carousel (Louise), Brigadoon, West Side Story (starring Max Von Esson), Cats, Evita, The Most Happy Fella (starring George Hearn), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Hello Dolly, Annie Get Your Gun (starring Jenn Colella), Peter Pan, Saturday Night Fever, and the independent film Louis (choreographed by Hinton Battle). Lisa also performed with Opus Dance Theatre in NYC.

Choreographic credits: Footloose (WEAD+artstoall), Mary Poppins (RTCC winner Best Choreo., VaRep), Newsies (Broadway World Nominee Best Choreography, SPARC), Spelling Bee (MWVTC), A Chorus Line (MWVTC), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Associate Choreo., Fulton Theater), Arts for Autism (Gershwin Theatre, Hosted by Kelli O’Hara).

Lisa has been an adjunct faculty member for VCU’s theater department. She has also been a guest teacher for Revolución Latina, on faculty at MMAC in NYC, and is Co- Founder of Moving Youth Dance Company in New Jersey. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 5.

Lisa holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied with and performed works by Mark Morris, Anne Reinking, Seán Curran, Gus Solomons Jr., Ronald K. Brown, and Deborah Jowitt, among others. She received earlier training from The Joffrey School, American Ballet Theatre and CPYB.