Stephanie Kibler is the owner/director of Kibler Dance Academy.  She started her dancing career at the age of seven. She received her dance training starting with Susan Powell Dance Center and the Canton Ballet. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance Management from Baldwin-Wallace College. She has studied in New York City at Broadway Dance Center and has attended many dance conventions to study all forms of dance.  In 1995, Stephanie was selectively chosen for a scholarship from Ohio Arts Council.  Stephanie has been teaching dance for fifteen years, and opened Kibler Dance Academy eight years ago.  Throughout her years of teaching, she has earned numerous choreography awards and overall awards at both regional and national levels. She travels to New York City frequently to attend dance teacher conferences to help further her knowledge in the dance world.  Stephanie also has a love for theater and has choreographed shows including: Berea High School’s production of “Anything Goes” and Young Actors Studio’s productions of “Peter Pan”, “Annie Jr.”, and “Grease”.  Stephanie is excited to start her eighth year at Kibler Dance Academy and is looking forward to sharing her love of dance with her students.

Jennifer Kibler is an instructor, artistic designer, and marketing manager at Kibler Dance Academy.  She began her dance career at the age of 3 and studied at the Melissa Popovich Dance Studio, Al’s Gymnastics, and Susan Powell Dance Center.  Jennifer was a competitive dancer and cheerleader and has won many prestigious awards both regionally and nationally.  Jennifer attended Baldwin-Wallace College and received a BA with a major in Business and Minor in Studio Art.  She continued her dance education throughout college where she also performed on the dance team and in dance concerts.  Jennifer has been sought after for her judging and choreography abilities at both high school and collegiate levels.  Jennifer is a competition choreographer at Kibler Dance Academy and has earned numerous awards and high score awards for her dance pieces.  Jennifer frequently travels to New York to attend dance teacher conferences to extend her knowledge in dance, business, and marketing. This year marks Jennifer’s 8th year teaching at Kibler Dance Academy, and also her 2nd year as the choreographer for the Hudson High School Swing Marching Band Dancers.  Jennifer loves combining her love of dance and art and sharing that with the studio, community and beyond.

Liz Catterlin graduated Manga Cum Laude from The University of Akron in May of 2011 receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance with a business minor. During her time there, she has performed with The University of Akron Dance Company for five years working with many faculty members as well as performing works by Doug Varone, Alexandra Beller, and David Parsons. Liz is fortunate to have studied in many areas of the arts including acting, modern, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, tap, ballet, pointe, hip hop, and acrobatics. For the last five years, she has continued to teach throughout the United States in modern, contemporary, jazz, and lyrical as well as setting pieces in lyrical, contemporary, jazz, and hip hop.

While living in New York, Frank has worked with such Broadway luminaries as Michael Bennett, Gower Champion, Jerome Robbins, Peter Gennaro, Donald Saddler and George Abbott in productions of A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Sugar, West Side Story, Singin’ In The Rain and On Your Toes. He has performed in over 80 musicals and plays, as well as several feature films and commercials, which have taken him to four continents and to every state in America, with the exception of North Dakota (he’ll get there soon, though!). As an instructor, he has spent ten years with Access Broadway, teaching master classes in tap, musical theatre, voice and acting, as well as being a tap instructor for Dance Educators of America (DEA). Frank now produces his own triple-threat workshop, which encompasses musical-theatre dance, tap, acting, improvisation, voice and vocal performance and audition technique. Recently added to the curriculum is acting-for-dancers. In Spring of 2010, he produced Turn It Around, a series of master classes that are delivered directly to studios, for a more personal experience, with a variety of master teachers and classes designed to fit the studios specific needs. Frank has choreographed many large-scale musicals and award-winning competition pieces.

Suzanne Heckroth joined Kibler Dance Academy in March 2007. Her responsibilities include customer service, accounts payable and accounts receivable. She also serves as a substitute dance instructor. Suzanne began dancing at the age of 3 in Sharon, PA. She studied tap, ballet, jazz and pointe with Linda Morris and Bonnie Banick for 15 years. Suzanne attended St Joseph’s School, where she was a cheerleader and Kennedy Christian High School, where she was a member of the dance line, concert and jazz bands and golf team. As graduate from John Carroll University, Suzanne earned a bachelors degree in Chemistry and was also a cheerleader for four years. In February 1998, she performed two contemporary pieces with the Beth Elliott Dance Group in Great Mills, Maryland. Suzanne began her professional career in Sharon, PA as an inside sales representative for Winner Steel Services followed by a chemist for Pennsylvania Consumers Water Company.  During this time she was also the girls’ golf coach for Kennedy Christian High School. Suzanne then moved to Owings Mills, MD where we was Laboratory Resource Manager for InVitro Technologies for five years. She now lives in Hudson with her husband Mark and their two children.