Colleen Edwards trained at the Boulder Ballet Academy in Colorado, under the founder, Barbra Demaree as well as Jon Prinz, Ana Claire and Lucia Martin. Colleen was a founding member of world renowned choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl ‘s company Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet as a trainee. For her senior project in high school Colleen choreographed a 40 minute ballet and arranged the performance as well as marketed, costumed and danced in the show. After graduating, Colleen attended her first choice College The Boston Conservatory, earning her B.F.A in Dance learning from Denise Pons, Luis Fuente, Donna Silva, Jennifer Scanlon, Tommy Neblett, and Leslie Woodies. At BoCo she performed in Anthony Tudor's Dark Elegies having been cast by Donald Mauhler as the First Mother's solo. In her professional career Colleen has performed soloist and principle roles in ballets such as Cinderella, as the Winter fairy and Fairy Godmother, A Midsummer Night’s dream, as Helena, and Hippolita, Dew Drop Fairy, Snow Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty and a soloist in Les Sylphides. Colleen has taught in Northern Virginia, New York, Louisiana, Maine, Georgia, Massachusetts and in Richmond where she continues to challenge her students in both technique and performance. Ms. Edwards has enjoyed dancing in diverse companies including Urbanity Dance, Baton Rouge Ballet Theater, Portland Ballet, North Atlantic Dance Theatre where she was Ballet Mistress, Savannah Ballet Theater, and most recently Conflux Dance Theater. Colleen's choreography has been performed at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Rhode Island Women's Choreography Project, Urbanity Dance's Professional Company, North Atlantic Dance Theatre's professional Company as well as Stavna's Gala performance of The Haunting. Colleen is enjoying her first season at Stavna Ballet as Ballet Mistress.