Richard Yé

Richard Yé, born and raised in Kansas City, began training in modern dance as an extracurricular activity, outside of college. This led him to earning scholarships to professional training programs at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the University of Kansas and the Milwaukee Ballet, and he eventually completed his BFA in Dance at the University of Wisconsin. Richard has performed for numerous dance, theater and opera companies throughout the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, the Milwaukee Ballet and the Cincinnati Ballet Companies. He has performed for the Metropolitan Opera in Japan, Ballet for Young Audiences, before a stadium of fifty thousand in China, in various other shows in Ukraine, Russia, Canada, Ecuador and on a Carnival Cruise Ship in the Caribbean Sea. In recent years, Richard has performed in various Off, Off-Off and Off-Off-Off Broadway shows as an actor, singer, dancer, stage manager and director. He is a certified teacher in the American Ballet Theater National Training Curriculum. A few years ago, he left NYC for the sunny world of LA, CA where he now enjoys riding trails on his E-bike and studying piano and acting.