Caroline Cuseo Wright
Instructor
Ms. Caroline is from Myrtle Beach, SC where she spent her childhood training in competitive dance at Elite Dance Center with a focus on tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, clogging, and acro styles. Throughout her youth, she held many regional titles, special awards, and scholarships including the honor of being the first person to hold all four regional titles for Dance Masters of America-Chapter 44. She began her collegiate education as a member of the University of South Carolina(USC) Dance Company as well as a staff member, teaching jazz and tap for the USC Dance Conservatory. Her passion for musical theater took center stage and swept her to Coastal Carolina University where she received a BA in Musical Theater Performance.
Since then, she has performed in numerous regional theaters along the East Coast under the direction of Broadway and theater royalty such as Mitzi Hamilton, Bradly Musgrove, Jerome Vivona, Aimee Turner, Monica Bell, and Kevin Hill. Favorite theaters include Ogunquit Playhouse, Theater by the Sea, Rivertown Theaters, Jean’s Playhouse, and Atlantic Stage. Favorite credits include Ula in The Producers, Charity in Sweet Charity, Velma Kelly in CHICAGO, Sheila in A Chorus Line, Joanne in COMPANY and Catherine in Proof.
Regional choreography credits includeThe Producers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sweet Charity, Peter Pan, and Peter Pan Jr.. Broadway National Tour credit includes Legally Blonde, the Musical as the female swing, covering 7 tracks.
She began teaching full time 12 years ago when she transitioned from a “Musical Theater Gypsy” to a “US Coast Guard Family Gypsy”. She has instructed and choreographed for
-Pacific School of Dance and Ballet Pacific in Coos Bay, Oregon, Encore Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, Maddox Dance Studio in Astoria, Oregon, and Astoria High School as Co-Coach with Pizazz Dance Team. She is honored to add BADD Company Dance Studio to that list! Her husband(Patrick), son(Thomas), daughter(Ada), and furr-baby(Izzy) have had a wonderful first year being welcomed into the Calvert County Community.