Danielle Broyles – Founder & Artistic Director
Danielle is a musical theater professional and has performed all over San Diego in musicals with Moonlight Stage Productions: Cats, Crazy for You, Legally Blonde, Tommy, Music Man, Big Fish, and Sister Act (Tina), Lawrence Welk: Thoroughly Modern Millie, San Diego Musical Theatre: Guys and Dolls, White Christmas (Dance Captain) and West Side Story (Consuelo) , Starlight: High School Musical, Temecula Valley Players: Rent (Maureen), New Village Arts: 1940’s Radio Hour (Connie Miller) and Legally Blonde (Elle Woods), and has worked as a performer at both Sea World and Disneyland.
While she loves to perform, her passion is bringing the theatre arts to the youth. She has worked all over San Diego for the past 20+ years teaching, choreographing and directing for various youth theatre companies. One of her biggest accomplishments was starting San Elijo Middle School’s Rising Stars program and becoming the Program Director of the Starz2B program at Carrillo Elementary of which both school’s programs will be transitioning to Students on Stage! She is a NYA award winning director and two-time winning choreographer. She has choreographed and directed over 40 productions in the San Diego and New York area. She currently is the drama teacher at San Elijo Elementary School and Carrillo Elementary School. Whether it is drama, singing, dancing or acting, she loves to teach and inspire kids to grow in the theatre arts. She is extremely thrilled to be starting this new non-profit program and bringing the theater arts to more schools and students.
Susie Dycus- Program Director
Susie Dycus: A native of Southern California, Susie’s background is multi-faceted. Her experience includes performing, directing, choreographing, stage managing and teaching. Trained in classical ballet through her teenage years, her career took a turn toward musical theatre. She spent more than 5 years touring the country with the Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast where she served as dance captain and swing for a dozen roles. Regional theatre credits include Bye Bye Birdie (Kim), Grease (Marty), How To Succeed In Business, South Pacific, Can Can, and Hello Dolly among others. She was a Production and Entertainment Manager at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and has served as producer and director for multiple shows internationally in Asia. Susie has also made her way around the world performing and choreographing production shows on board many cruise ships. Her work has been seen on Cunard, Renaissance, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean, and Asuka Cruise Lines. Her career even ventured to Las Vegas, where she spent a year performing with Seigfried and Roy at the Mirage.
Susie holds a BFA in Musical Theatre and Dance from Stephens College in Columbia, MO. Trained in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, Polynesian, and Flamenco dance, Susie has studied and worked in both New York and Los Angeles. She has taught extensively in arts schools in California and Nevada, as well as her own dance studio in Orlando, FL. Susie has spent the last several years working with students in North San Diego County where she has choreographed nearly a dozen musicals with Ovation Theatre in Encinitas (favorites: The Addams Family, Something Rotten, Crazy for you, Freaky Friday, The Drowsy Chaperone). She has worked alongside Danielle Broyles since 2015 directing/choreographing/stage managing productions with the SEMS Rising Stars, SEES Stars, and Carrillo Starz2B programs (Peter Pan, Annie, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland and more). Working with students and watching them achieve great strides in self confidence, mastering a dance or song, taking the lead, or conquering fears and challenges by putting themselves on a stage continues to bring Susie joy with each and every new cast she works with.