In 2017, Alice Strawn Sheridan was named NMG’s second artistic director, following 25 years as its assistant director. A Macon native, Mrs. Sheridan began her training at Jean Weaver’s Dance Arts Studio and Gladys Lasky School of Ballet. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts for four years where she trained with Gyula Pandi, Gina Vidal, Melissa Hayden, Duncan Noble, Mimi Paul, Fanchon Cordell and other world-renowned faculty members and guest artists.

She spent two summers in Italy with a student company from NCSA, studying and performing. After graduating, she danced with the Milwaukee Ballet Company for several years under the direction of Ted Kivitt performing in Swan Lake, Giselle, Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes and many other original works. In 2017, she attended the Teachers Workshop at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet.

Currently teaching at The Jean Evans Weaver Center for Dance and Dance Dynamics Studio, Mrs. Sheridan was on the ballet faculty of Dance Arts Studio for 32 years, and is co-founder of Middle Georgia Youth Ballet. Most recently, she joined the faculty of Joffrey South’s 2022 Summer Intensive in Athens, Georgia. She is also a Progressing Ballet Technique Certified Instructor.

Mrs. Sheridan’s passion for teaching, guiding and mentoring has led her students to study with such prestigious schools as The School of American Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Boston Ballet, Next Generation Ballet, Carolina Ballet and the country’s most competitive university dance programs, including Indiana University, Butler University and University of South Carolina.

Mrs. Sheridan is the wife of Tino Sheridan and proud mother of sons, Val and Loy.