Miah Nwosu began her career as a teacher and choreographer in 2003, at the Scripps Performing Arts Academy when she returned to San Diego from New York City. She began seriously studying ballet at The Scripps Performing Arts Centre (now Academy) when she was 8 years old. She trained at Scripps Performing Arts for seven years, primarily under Lili Griffith, former Soloist with the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, continuing her studies at City Ballet of San Diego in the highest level of their pre-professional division. She performed with the company in the Nutcracker, their company premiere of “Don Quixote,” and various other productions and spent a summer training at The Ailey School in New York City. Miah later attended Fordham University in New York City, training at The Ailey School, Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center. Upon her return to San Diego, Miah joined C. Anthony Cole Repertory Theatre and later La Diego Dance Theatre for it’s inaugural season. While dancing with La Diego, Miah was asked to perform at the Dancing Under the Stars choreographer competition in Palm Springs. She was also rehearsal coach and dancer representative for LaDiego and has had the pleasure of teaching audition classes for both companies. Miah has also served as a guest teacher at several local dance schools and summer programs. Serving as head choreographer for SPAA since 2003, she has successfully mounted original productions and set full length classical ballets including an annual all youth production of The Nutcracker, The Storyteller (2003 and 2004), Earthkalah (2005), Over the Rainbow (2006 and 2007), Our Favorite Ballets (2007), Prokofiev’s Cinderella (2008), Ballet Does the Rat Pack (2009), La Passion La Danse La Vie (2009), Glazunov’s The Season (2010), La Boutique Fantasque (2010). During SBT’s inagural season, she set Grand Pas de Quatre (2011) and an choreographed an original version of Les Rendez-vous (2011). SBT was created to provide pre-professional students with the opportunities necessary to grow technically and artistically in performance and has provided students with the spring board and support system to launch them successfully into collegiate and professional dance programs including Estonia National Ballet, the National Ballet School of Cuba, San Francisco Ballet School, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Indiana University, The Boston Conservatory, UCI and multiple summer intensive acceptances (several with scholarships) to prestigious programs across the nation.