Artistic Leadership

Jared Redick – (Artistic Director)

Jared Redick was appointed Artistic Director of New Haven Ballet in January 2011. Redick has an extensive background as a professional dancer for 20 years and strong experience in arts leadership, teaching and administration.

Redick was raised in Reston, Virginia where he began his ballet training with his mother Julia Redick at Conservatory Ballet. He studied at North Carolina School of the Arts, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s School of Classical Ballet and the School of American Ballet.

Redick began his performance career with San Francisco Ballet and danced with Texas Ballet Theater, Miami City Ballet and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, before joining Boston Ballet where he danced for seven years. With Boston Ballet, Jared was featured in works including John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Onegin and The Taming of the Shrew, Balanchine’s Prodigal Son, Rubies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty, Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker, and Sir Frederick Ashton’s La Fille Mal Gardee.

Following his retirement in 2009, Redick continued his work with Boston Ballet as Principal of Boston Ballet School’s South Shore studio in Norwell, MA. Redick has extensive teaching experience with Boston Ballet School, Boston Ballet Summer Dance Program, Syracuse University Summer Dance Intensive, Suzanne Farrell’s Cedar Island Program, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Redick is the recipient of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts award for exceptional artistic achievement.

He continues his work with New Haven Ballet passing on the legacy of ballet and dance education to the next generation of aspiring young artists.

Elizabeth McMillan – (Associate Principal Shoreline Studio Guilford)

McMillan began her ballet training at the age of nine with the Alabama Dance Theater in Montgomery. As a scholarship student she attended summer workshops with the Joffrey Ballet in New York, Houston Ballet, and Ballet Magnificat in Jackson, Miss.

At the age of thirteen, she was accepted into Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy in the Pre-Professional Division and later was accepted at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. After two years McMillan was promoted to the Professional Division of the Stevenson Academy and placed on a full merit scholarship.

In 2000, she joined Ballet Magnificat, touring nationally and internationally with the main company for seven years. In 2006, she accepted a position as Adjunct Professor of Dance at Belhaven University; two years later she was promoted to the full-time faculty position of Specialty Instructor of Dance. Most recently Betsy served on the faculty of the Ben Stevenson Academy and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and as Ballet Mistress for both Houston Metropolitan Dance Company and Ad Deum Dance Company in Houston.

McMillan joins New Haven Ballet for the 2011-2012 school year with her husband, WIlliam,  as he settles into New Haven for his PhD in Sociology at Yale.