Wilson Mendieta

Wilson is a graduate of the University of Washington with an MFA in Dance and a Nonprofit Management Certificate from the Evans School of Public Affairs. He also received a BFA in Acting and a minor in Dance from Montclair State University. Prior to earning his MFA he lived in the New York City area where he worked as a performer for television, radio spots, commercials, concert dance companies and Off-Broadway and Broadway musicals. His choreography has been seen throughout the U.S., including The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and has been invited to festivals in Venezuela and Australia. He's taught at University of Minnesota, Purchase, Montclair State University, Tisch School of the Arts, CAP 21, Steps on Broadway and Dance New Amsterdam, to name a few. His research on how to better equip performing arts students to have sustained careers in their fields has been invited for presentation at the International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts in Athens, Greece, and the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Oahu, HI. He also has served as a panelist for several arts funding organizations including The National Endowment for the Arts.