AMY RUTH

Founder/ Dance Director/ Master Instructor
After more than 20 years of teaching, Amy currently resides in Southern California, where she works daily in teaching her students to "CREATE." She believes wholeheartedly, bringing life experiences, no matter joyful or tragic to the stage, can be healing and powerful. Through musicality, characterization, conditioning, & technique, Amy trains her students in being very well rounded performers.

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AMY JOHNSON

Theatre Director​/ Master Instructor
Amy has been an acting and singing teacher in the South Bay for the last 12 years. She received her degree from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television with a concentration in acting while simultaneously studying voice. Her passion is bringing characters and stories to life and she encourages each of her students to use their own unique perspective to develop complex, interesting characters.

AARON MEDINA

Music Director/ Master Instructor
​Aaron has a diverse background in music, as a performer, collaborator, songwriter, and teacher. As a classically trained artist with a Master of Music in Classical Guitar Performance from the University of Denver, Aaron's training, combined with his intrinsic curiosity, has led to an array of musical paths. Aaron works as a songwriter for XIX Entertainment (Aloe Blacc, Spice Girls, ABBA, Annie Lennox) performs session work around Los Angeles, has performed as a touring guitarist in cities as far as Qingdao China, and mentors the next up and coming generation of musicians in-person around Los Angeles, and virtually in other parts of the world.

​Whether he is teaching a rock band of music students to play Bon Jovi in front of their entire school (stealing the show!), collaborating with other songwriters for their albums (including television placement), producing backing tracks and original tracks for studio/live settings, or performing a J.S. Bach lute suite on the classical guitar at a private party, Aaron is always up for the next challenge as a performer, instructor, and collaborator.

joplin franklin

Creative Dance Instructor
​With an unusual and intriguing musical upbringing-- spanning Bluegrass to Rock, Classical to Jazz and Punk to modern day Electronica - Joplin's musical style can truly be called eclectic. For the last 22 years Joplin has been building musical environments as a DJ everywhere from yoga studios to downtown warehouses, art galleries to Hollywood clubs, the forest to the desert – and beyond. Dance has played a parallel and integral part, alongside music, in Joplin’s artistic journey. A dancer from age 2, she has tapped, pirouetted and choreographed her way through her entire life. She began teaching Jazz, Ballet, Tap and Modern dance at age 17, and after a short life hiatus, is currently back following her passion for teaching as a new member of CREATE Complex.

madeline kelley

Creative Dance Instructor​
Madeline trained in the South Bay under Kara Fioretti while being a part of a local Ballet Company as well as Elite Competition teams for 13 years. She then began training at Yuri Gregoriev School of Ballet under Yuri Gregoriev, Alina Volynsky, and Seda Aybay, where she trained for four years in classical ballet.

CHARLIE LUSKY

C3 Instructor [Couture. Costuming. Cosmetology.] 
"Since the age of three, dance has played an intricate role in my life and Create Dance Company has given me the opportunity to not only continue my passion for the art form, but tell my own stories through dance as well. I currently attend the University of Arizona, studying Business Management with two minors in Theatre Arts and Retail and Consumer Sciences. I am looking forward to continuing my dance career through teaching and playing a small part in a dancers journey." Create Involvement 
CREATE Dance Company member 2016-17, Choreographer of the year award 2017, Assistant in 2018 Summer Camps/2018 Winter Show/2019 Spring Show, Intern in 2019 Summer Camps. Other Dance Involvement
Dance Captain for production of Oklahoma (2017) Dance Captain for production of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2018), Best Female Dancer Nomination at the John Raitt Awards (2017) ​