STAFF
Garland Goodwin Wilson received her BA in Theatre from LSU and studied locally at 2M's School of Dance. She has also studied modern dance across the world at centers and festivals such as Impulstanz Vienna and the Jose Limon Institute in New York. She has trained under and facilitated residencies with artists such as Ashleigh Leite, Netta Yerushalmy, Irene Rampino and Emily Plauche-Flink and has has toured with Windows Dance Company (Brazil, Asia, Hawaii) and with TNZTT Dance Theatre (Slovakia, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic). Locally, she has worked for Capitol High, Scotlandville Magnet High, The Runnels School, Playmakers, and the Arts Council of GBR. Garland is Board President of the Louisiana Alliance for Dance and Board Member for Palissimo Dance in NYC. She has served as a grants panelist for the BR Area Foundation and the Arts Councils of GBR, Shreveport and Louisiana, and is also a Louisiana Dance Fellow for Choreography. In 1996, she returned to the state and has served as the Artistic Director of OMC since 1997, creating 37 productions for the company and taking the arts to over 100 venues in the Southern region.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Pamela Matassa, President
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Lisa Emerson
Heather Sewell Day
Gretchen Erickson
Amanda Henkel
Amie Kozan
Melana Lloyd
Starr Long
Barry Milligan
Brent Milligan
Daryl McCreary
Monica Murphy
Rachel Perlis
Jesse Price
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ADVISORY BOARD
Cheri Ausberry
Allison Lamar Beard
Ann Connelly
Fred C. Dent, III
Cordell Haymon
Kelly Hurtado
Mary Lilly
Anne Marks
Bettsie Miller