SHOLA COLE (Performer) Is no stranger to performing. A classical pianist since age 6 and a trombone player at 15, she has been involved with music forever. She graduated from Uconn with a focus in music and women’s studies and also co-founded two women’s ensembles. She is grateful for the day she happened to look online for STOMP auditions. She would like to thank her Mom, Tau Beta Sigma, Harmonious Soul Rubyfruit, Jessie, and Hole in the Wall Gang for all their support.   CHARLENE DeGUZMAN (Performer) was born and raised in San Jose, California. At age 6, she started studying ballet, tap, and jazz. By age 12, she discovered percussion. A theatre major at Arizona State University, she moved to New York to pursue a career on stage. Char thanks her mom, dad, family, and friends for their support and inspiration.   DUSTIN ELSEA (Performer) has been banging on trashcans and sweeping floors to a rhythm before he knew Stomp existed. Hailing from Virginia Beach, Virginia, he has been performing and drumming since birth. Inspired by a man named Hugh Copeland, Dustin set out to pursue a dream and is thrilled to be making it come true with STOMP. "Thank you Hugh. Mom - I love you. This one is for you."   JOELL JACKSON (Performer) –Since Middle School 51 his dream was to join STOMP. He has been acting, dancing, singing, drumming, and entertaining forever. He thanks GOD, his family, Alan Zwirn, Lizzy Boo, and friends for helping him succeed in everything. He’s ready for the world and won’t hold back. ‘05 will NEVER die!   LOUIS LABOVITCH (Performer) Hello. After living with my drumkit in a van I went to California State University , Fresno , USA to study classical percussion. It turned out to be playing a triangle in an orchestra and not rocking out so I changed subjects to theatre. After graduating with a Theatre Arts Degree and Percussion Minor in 2001, I moved back to the UK and did various acting bits including roles in the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival and a short stint at LAMDA. I came into Stomp by meeting a man in a park, off Portabello Road , who knows more than we know.   MICHAEL R. LANDIS (Performer) Hometown: San Diego, CA. Music is Everything, and that’s why I’m here!! I played percussion with CRP productions for years, then was inspired by Chris Rubio to take my dream further. Taught by Michael Silvia, life-long friend, the way of the beat came to my heart. I thank Patricia, my mother, Steve, my father, and all my family and friends.   JUSTIN MYLES (Performer) is a native of Mechanicsville, MD and spent his childhood surrounded by music, dance and most importantly rhythm. Tapping since the age of 3, taught by his mom & dance instructor Gracie, he graduated from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pa with a BA degree in Dance, majoring in Ballet and Jazz. He fell in love with playing drums at the age of 7 and soon after picked up the bass, rhythm guitar and piano. Performed in the off-broadway show Tap Dogs, Disney Cruise Lines as a singer/dancer and dance captain, Paramounts Kings Dominion, Pittsburgh Playhouse Dance Company, and Busch Gardens Theme Park Williamsburgh, Va. Justin now continues to write and produce his own music that has a Acoustical Rock R&B Funk sorta style (even still while on the road). Check it out @ www.justinmyles.net Justin would like to throw praise to God and thank his family, friends and mom for all their nonstop love and support.   STEPHEN "WACKI" SERWACKI (Performer) "You're here for a good time, not a long time." This is a motto that I've tried to subscribe to since day one. Expressing myself through everything from playing music, breakdancing, terrifying my four sisters to impersonating my friends has been a life-long work in progress. My sincerest gratitude goes out to anybody who has ever encouraged my idiotic behavior. See what you've done!   MICHELLE J. SMITH (Performer) is a native of Brooklyn, NY. At the age of 9, she was crowned "Little Miss Nubian Princess." For winning, she received a scholarship to Harlem School of the Arts, where she fell in love with dance. She has since trained at Ballet Hispanico, The Ailey School, LaGuardia High School and The Juilliard School where she received a BFA degree in Dance. Michelle is also a recipient of a National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Award and was a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2000. Michelle thanks her family for their on going support.   NICHOLAS YOUNG (Performer) Nicholas began his professional career at fifteen as an apprentice with Tapestry Dance Company in Austin, TX under the direction of Acia Gray and Deirdre Strand. Studying Tap, Ballet and Modern, he moved from Principle Dancer to Resident Choreographer, spending more than eight years with this multi formed company and eventually earning him best male dancer in Austin, 2002.  He studied with Debra Bray, Diane Walker, Sam Weber, Eddie Brown, Sally Jaque, Dee McCandless and others. These influences gave him a rhythm foundation and endless inspiration.  In New York he has performed with Manhattan Tap Ensemble, Rumba Tap, Hoofin to Hittin and Cyro Baptista's ?Beat The Donkey.?  He has taight master classes and performed for the St. Louis, Tap City and Soul To Sole Tap Festivals as well as the American Dance Festival. Nicholas would like to thank his mother Linda for giving him his passion and dedication to movement and music.