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Kiyon Ross has devoted his career to ballet—as a dancer, choreographer, stager, faculty member, and administrator. He started his training at the Baltimore School of the Arts and finished at PNB School, joining the Company in 2001 and retiring as a Soloist in 2015. Kiyon has choreographed works for PNB, PNB School, New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, and Spectrum Dance Theater, and was the resident choreographer at Ballet Arkansas from 2015-2018. Kiyon is the Associate Artistic Director at PNB.

Mark Zappone served Pacific Northwest Ballet from 1983 to 1988 as costume designer, shop supervisor, and wardrobe master. He then moved to Monte Carlo, where he managed costume shops for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and Le Cabaret de Monte-Carlo, continuing on to Switzerland and Amsterdam with Holiday on Ice. Mr. Zappone has collaborated with many renowned choreographers and designers, including Twyla Tharp, Christopher Wheeldon, and Yuri Possokhov, among others. In addition to his many ballets for PNB, Mr. Zappone has designed costumes for numerous dance companies worldwide.

Randall G. Chiarelli (1949-2024) devoted his career to lighting for dance, much of it at Pacific Northwest Ballet, and also for American Ballet Theatre, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Houston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, among others. His many collaborators included choreographers Donald Byrd, Mark Dendy, Ronald Hynd, Kent Stowell, Susan Stroman, and Christopher Wheeldon. Chiarelli graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in painting and sculpture.