Mark
Cuddihee
Mark Cuddihee is from Greenville, South Carolina. He studied at Carolina Ballet Theatre, the School of American Ballet, Boston Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and he attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet School, Boston Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. In 2017, he was a participant in Boston Ballet School’s Royal Danish Ballet exchange program. Mr. Cuddihee joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2019, was promoted to corps de ballet later that year, and to soloist in 2025.
Mr. Cuddihee participated as a dancer in the New York Choreographic Institute and as a choreographer in the School of American Ballet’s Student Choreography Workshop. He also performed in Goya Montero’s Pulse, which premiered at the Prix de Lausanne Gala in 2018.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
The Nutcracker
(Cavalier, Soldier Doll, Green Tea Cricket, Candy Cane)
Allegro Brillante
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Peasant pas de Deux)
Jiří Kylián
Petite Mort
Edwaard Liang
The Veil Between Worlds
Crystal Pite
The Seasons’ Canon
Penny Saunders
Wonderland
Kent Stowell
Carmina Burana
Swan Lake
(Pas de Trois)
Twyla Tharp
Sweet Fields
Waiting at the Station
Original Roles
Donald Byrd
And the sky is not cloudy all day
Love and Loss
Alejandro Cerrudo
Black on Black on Black
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Khepri
Amanda Morgan
This Space Left Intentionally Blank
Dwight Rhoden
Catching Feelings
Kiyon Ross
…throes of increasing wonder
Dancer Promotions! Christopher D’Ariano, Clara Ruf Maldonado, Mark Cuddihee, Ashton Edwards, Juliet Prine, and Yuki Takahashi
Following the opening night world premiere performance of AfterTime in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s current mixed rep program, PNB Artistic Director Peter Boal announced the promotion of four corps de ballet dancers to the rank of soloist, and two soloists being elevated to principal dancers. Read all about it here!
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Meet the NEXT STEP Artist: Mark Cuddihee
What do you hope the audience leaves with from watching your piece? I hope the audience leaves feeling as if they have witnessed a full arc in terms of the story telling my piece attempts. Additionally, I hope they leave with as many questions as answers, along with the urge to see it again.
Meet the NEXT STEP Artist: Mark Cuddihee
What is your most marked characteristic? I will try to make a joke out of any situation. Moreover, I become interested in many different activities quite often which causes me to cycle through hobbies rather quickly.