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Olney Ballet Theatre Board of Directors

Patricia Berrend, Artistic Director  

Royal S Dellinger, President

Lynn M. Silvey, Production Consultant

Dianne Cannon, Parent's Guild Chair  

The Olney Ballet Theatre is a non-profit, performing arts, educational organization supported financially by parents, local businesses, corporate grants, the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Membership in OBT is open, by audition, to all interested ballet dancers between the ages of 10 and 18 who are intermediate and advanced level students and who seek performance opportunities in addition to their individual dance studio programs.

Mission Statement

Olney Ballet Theatre is committed to young dancers and to extending their education in the arts by providing opportunities to perform in a theater setting before live audiences, thereby enhancing and giving meaning to their years of routine dance training.  Olney Ballet Theatre is equally committed to becoming an educational resource that will provide cultural enrichment for the community, particularly for the community’s young people, through presentations of high quality, original productions of understandable, entertaining story ballets performed by young dancers.  No person on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, or age who is otherwise qualified shall be excluded from participation in Olney Ballet Theatre.  Furthermore, no person who is otherwise qualified shall be excluded from participation or be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination solely by reason of his or her handicap.