Ramona Kelley is from Berkeley, CA where she began her training at Berkeley Ballet Theater. She earned a BFA in dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Kelly danced the principal role of Betsy in the touring production of Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away, and went on to dance with the Tharp company, creating new roles in addition to performing repertory works. She was a Principal with Oakland Ballet and has also performed with Smuin Ballet, Minnesota Dance Theatre, Claudia Schreier and Co, Post:Ballet, Sidra Bell, Christopher Wheeldon’s An American in Paris and Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Tour), among others.