Sheri Hayden
Adjunct Dance Faculty
Dance & Entertainment
Dance - Faculty
Biography
Sheri Hayden graduated from Oklahoma City University with a Bachelor of Performing Arts and is a faculty member of the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment. She teaches multiple dance styles and frequently choreographs OKCU main stage productions. In 2018, she was nominated for Adjunct Faculty of the Year.
Her choreography credits include Side Show, Sister Act, Evita, Brigadoon, Broadway Bound (OKCU), Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (CityRep/OKCU), Meet Me in St. Louis (UCO), The Oklahoma Senior Follies (OCCC), The Seven Last Words of Christ (Church of the Servant) and Grace Trumps (RACE). Her performance credits include He Said She Said, Home, Energy, The Variety Care Benefit Show, Vamp’d, The Racey Show, Hip Hop Nutcracker, The Girlie Show, Raceless, “Osage 9th Anniversary” (Commercial) and “I Got a Job” (Commercial).
In addition to her work at OKCU, she teaches jazz and tap for the dance and musical theater departments at the University of Central Oklahoma, serves as a company director at Star Steps and is a currently a member of RACE Dance Company. Hayden has performed internationally on cruise ships, with The Pollard Theatre Company in The Producers and with Tulsa Ballet in its North American premier of Strictly Gershwin. With RACE, she performed as a guest artist in Los Angeles in Adam Parson’s show +3, Quartets. Hayden also collaborates often with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and has also been a part of several short dance films.
