Jill Nee

Jill Guyton Nee is the Head of Dance for the University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance. She earned her BA in dance and BS in business management from Meredith College. After graduating, she joined the full time staff at American Dance Festival, was a collaborative member of the former company Even Exchange Dance Theatre, and served on the Board of Directors for Code f.a.d. Company before attending The Ohio State University Department of Dance for her MFA. Her work has been presented in Thailand and throughout the United States. Creatively, she has worked with several distinguished choreographers including Mark Dendy, David Dorfman, Bebe Miller, Susan Hadley, Gaspard Louis, Shane O’Hara, Erin Carlisle Norton, and Carol Finley. She choreographs regularly for the Department of Theatre and Dance, Racine + Southern Dance Exchange (RSDE) and Opera Memphis. Jill is a co-director and founder of CJ40 Productions, an American contemporary dance theatre company that explores the innate theatricality of everyday life. The company has presented at several fringe festivals on the east coast, and continues to create new works every year.