Deborah Boyle, Artistic Director
Ballet, Pointe, Children's Work
Ms. Boyle has been dancing since the age of eight and through the years has studied with many of Greater Boston’s finest teachers. She began her first ten years of training with Ms. Shirley Terrill and expanded her studies with many of Boston’s most prestigious dance educators at the Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston Repertory Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Boston, Bay State Ballet Theater School and the Jeannette Neill Dance Studio. She is a former member of the Merrimack Valley Ballet Company and Bay State Ballet Theatre Company and has danced roles in productions such as Les Sylphides, Gaiette Parisienne, Hoedown, and Swan Lake.

Ms. Boyle’s teaching career has now spanned nearly two decades. She continues her training as both dancer and teacher and has attended classes, workshops and seminars with nationally renowned professionals such as David Howard, Finis Jhung, Leslie Browne, Susan Jaffe, Sean Lavery, and John Meehan to name a few. Ms. Boyle has studied with the Royal Academy of Dancing, is an affiliate of the American Academy of Ballet, a member in good standing of Dance Masters of America, Chapter #5, and is certified by test to teach.

In addition to her dance qualifications, Ms. Boyle holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology as well as a Massachusetts Certification in Education.

Audra Carabetta
Ballet, Children's Work
Audra has pursued her love of dance by studying a variety of dance forms including ballet, pointe, jazz, tap, modern, baroque, and renaissance dance. She has studied with the Joffrey Ballet, Pioneer Valley Ballet, Five College Dance Department, Marcus Schulkind and Brian Crabtree as well as many other teachers around the world. She currently performs with several companies including Brian Crabtree and Dancers, the Ken Purse Baroque Company and the Boston Early Music Festival as well as with choreographers such as Carol Sommers, Kelly Edwards, Jodi Waber and Robin Reese. Audra has taught students of all ages and levels in many dance programs from private studios to public school systems as well as at the college level. Ballet Arts Center is happy to have Audra return after welcoming her to its staff in 1999.

Lorraine Chapman
Ballet, Modern
Lorraine Chapman has danced with Prometheus Dance, Spencer/Colton, Ballet De Montreal Eddy Toussaint. Her choreography has been performed in the Boston area at the Green Street Studios, the Dance Complex, the Loeb Mainstage and Experimental Theaters, the Agassiz Theatre, Tower Auditorium, Wellesley College and the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center as well as the Betty Oliphant in Toronto, the Next Stage Theater in N.Y.C and in Seattle at the Civic Light Opera Theatre, the Shoreline Performing Arts Center and On the Boards-Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance where she was chosen for their 2000 Northwest New Works Festival. Ms. Chapman received her training at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and L'Ecole Superieure De Danse Du Quebec and now teaches both ballet and modern dance at Emerson College of Art, Cambridge School of Weston and Ballet Arts Centre. Lorraine Chapman was chosen for the Bessie Schonberg Choreographers Residency at The Yard for the summer of 2002 where she premiered The Traveler's Cabaret, and was a 2002 Top Ten pick for DANCE by Christine Temin of The Boston Globe for her performance of Marcus Schulkind's Let By-gones Be for Dance Straight Up! Lorraine Chapman The Company, Inc. was formed in the fall of 2002. Bebe Miller chose The Company to perform in the 8th International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT. The Company was chosen by World Music/Crasharts for Tens The Limit 2002 and for Dance Straight Up! 2004. Also in 2004, Ms. Chapman completed her first professional commission, for The Alberta Ballet in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and locally for Chip Morris's Commonwealth Ballet.

Liliana Kualapai
Jazz, Tap
Liliana's training reaches from the Pacific to the Atlantic. She studied tap, ballet, and jazz in Hawaii and later in the rolling plains of Nebraska where she opened Bennet Dance Center and co-founded the Lincoln Tap Force. She came to the Northeast to attend Brandeis University where she earned her B.A. in Theater Arts. She has choreographed extensively in the midwest and Massachusetts. Some of her most recent productions include "Annie", "Guys and Dolls", and "The Sound of Music" for the Watertown Children's Theater, "Strike Up the Band" for the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, and "West Side Story" for Winchester High School. Liliana also works as a theater instructor and movement specialist at Kidstock Creative Theater Education Center.

Her choreography credits are endless. In the past few years she has choreographed "Shoe Tech '96" for the Hush Puppy Corporation at the Hynes Convention Center, "Anything Goes" & "Guys and Dolls" for the Public Theater in Brighton and "Once on this Island," "The Wiz," "Anything Goes," "City of Angels," and "Into the Woods" for Winchester High School. .

Cheryl Mantia
Jazz, Ballet, Tap
Cheryl teaches jazz, ballet, tap, and hip-hop to students of all ages. She received her dance training from Boston Ballet and The Performing Arts Unlimited. Her performance experience includes Boston Ballet's "The Nutcracker", "Sleeping Beauty", and "A Midsummer Nights Dream," as well as performances with Boston College Dance Ensemble, Boston College Dance Team, The Performing Arts Unlimited, and The Pingree School. Cheryl also appeared in several commercials for Disney's Aladdin. Her choreography experience includes dance productions for Boston College and several Boston area dance studios. She has also choreographed for high school musical productions, junior high school cheerleading competitions, and middle school dance productions. Cheryl has been teaching at BAC since 2002.

Bill McLaughlin
Guest Choreographer
Bill McGlaughlin has performed with Impulse Dance Company, Concert Dance Company of Boston, Prometheus Dance Theater, Marcus Schulkind, Granite State Ballet, and Boston Dance Collective. While working with these copanies Bill performed the choreography of Fred Benjamin, Donald Byrd, Bebe MMiller, Dwight Rhoden and Randy Warshaw to name a few. He has choreographed and taught for The Boston Conservatory, The Jeanette Neil Dance Studio, The Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts and Boston Ballet's Summer intensive. Bill also served as Co-Artistic Director, Artistic Director and is now the Coordinator of Boston Dance Collective's Summer Outreach Program. Bill has appeared in and/or choreographed live/video industrials and commercials for such corporations as Dunkin Donuts, Trak Skis, puma, Party Lite, Honeywell Bull, Parachute Clothing, Frank Zavier, David Nicholas makeup, EMC and Dae Woo. Has has also appeared in opening acts for The Pointer Sisters, Rita Moreno, Jennifer Holliday and Harry Connick, Jr. His self-produced works include his own one-man show, Boogieman, Famine Tales and several other collaborate productions.

Scott Ranagan
Ballet, Pointe, and Pas de Deux
Scott received his training at Boston Ballet under the direction of E. Virginia Williams and with the Washington Ballet. he is the owner and director of the Bay State Ballet Theater Ballet School and co-founder and choreographer of Dance Prism of Concord, MA. He has danced with several professional companies, including Boston Ballet, Washington Ballet and North American Ballet, to name a few. Scott has been a BAC faculty member since its inception in 1990.