Teachers

Patricia McNally

      Patricia McNally has been the Artistic Director of Patricia Ann Studios in Dunedin for 25 years. Prior to her teaching career, Mrs McNally toured in many shows including Hello Dolly, Mame, Fiddler on the Roof, Lil Abner and Sophisticated Ladies. She performed in Atlantic City at the Claridge. She has appeared in commercials and on a TV Special with Glenn Campbell. Additionally, she performed the role of Tantomile and understudied the role of Demeter in Cats. She is a member of Actor's Equity Association and the SAG- AFTRA theatrical unions. Now as the director of Patricia Ann, she oversees the faculty and classes as well as teaching ballet, pointe and musical theater. Mrs McNally directs the Patricia Ann Competition Team which competes regionally January through May and Nationally each July. Patricia McNally holds certification with the American Ballet Theatre's teacher curriculum levels pre-primary through 5. Additionally, she is the Musical Theatre Dance, Ballet and Pointe adjunct teacher at Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School. She coaches for Thespian competition and choreographing for the center's musical main stage productions. Mrs. McNally adjudicates for Walker's Rising Stars, the Ruth Eckerd Hall Scholarship auditions,Heritage Arts, Florida Dance Masters, and Florida Dance Educators Organization.

Morgan Angelillis-Storrison

  Morgan Angelillis Storrison started her dance journey at the age of 5 at Patricia Ann Dance Studios, where she now teaches. Her foundational tap training was guided by Elaine Forestier. Over the years, she has expanded her expertise through instruction from Master Instructors like Debbie Dee, Dianne Walker, Michelle Dorrance, Nicole Hockenberry, Jason Samuels Smith, and the late Professor Robert Reed. Morgan has participated in numerous tap festivals, including the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Tap City the NY Tap Festival, the Stockholm Tap Festival, The Big Apple Tap Festival, and the So Flo Tap Festival. Driven by a desire to engage the local community, she founded Tapped In, Inc., a performance ensemble for youth and young adults that showcased original tap works from 2008 until 2022. A dedicated member of Patricia Ann Dance Studios since 2002, Ms. Storrison instructs three levels of adult tap and leads the advanced teen class, continually inspiring her students with her love for tap dance. 

Lori land

    Lori Land is a native to the Pinellas county area. She grew up studying all styles of dance. Her passion for dance continued in college at Southern Methodist University where she received a BA Cum Laude in English literature and a minor in Dance Performance. Upon graduation, Lori performed in multiple companies, including the Village Players Theatre, Firewalkers Dance Company, Ewert and Company, Dancers Unlimited and Beckles Dancing Company. After returning to Tampa Bay, she worked at Busch Gardens as a character, singer, dancer, character trainer, production assistant and spokesperson for Busch. Ms. Land has been teaching elementary education and dance to young children for the last ten years. Most recently, Lori joined the Patel Conservatory faculty for the summer musical theatre camp, in which she taught movement, vocals and acting to the campers for their end of camp presentation.

Aynsleigh Morehouse

Aynsleigh Morehouse is a Florida-based freelance dancer and choreographer who began training at age four. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance with a concentration in Ballet from the University of South Florida, where she focused on ballet, modern, and contemporary techniques, along with studies in choreography, pedagogy, and kinesiology.

Aynsleigh has performed with Tampa City Ballet and across a range of freelance projects, while also creating original works that reflect her evolving artistic voice.

As both an artist and educator, she is passionate about fostering creativity, sharing her love of dance, and continuing to explore new collaborative and performance opportunities.

Sonya Folds

Sonya Folds is a Florida native who began her dance training at Patricia Ann Dance Studios. She has trained in Classical Ballet using the Vaganova and Cecchetti methods, Horton Modern technique, Contemporary, Jazz, and a variety of other dance styles, including Tap and Character. She avidly participated in statewide competitions to further showcase these skillsets. 

As a young adult, she studied for three years under retired Bolshoi Ballet company members and shortly after attended Pinellas County Center for the Arts. Here she received intensive training in Ballet, Modern, Kinesiology, Choreography and Dance History while learning and performing full-length works and company repertoire. She also participated in master classes with renowned guest artists, annual workshops with Alonzo King LINES Ballet and spent a summer training with the Joffrey Ballet. 

Sonya is a certified Progressing Contemporary Technique (PCT) instructor and is committed to continuing her education by staying current with evolving teaching methods and contemporary dance practices. 

Alyssa Vendetti

Alyssa Vendetti is an award-winning Florida native dancer and choreographer. She has been dancing since 2007 and with Patricia Ann Dance Studios since 2011, until joining the studio as a teacher in 2022. Her choreography has earned the studio multiple awards in local and national competitions, such as Starbound National Talent Competition, Fusion National Dance Competition, The Movement Dance Competition, etc. As a dancer, Alyssa has studied the Cecchetti method of ballet, as well as various contemporary/modern techniques such as Horton and Graham. Alyssa also has 3 years of cheerleading experience, which also shapes how she constructs her classes. In addition to Patricia Ann Dance Studio, Alyssa teaches summer dance camp at the Dunedin Community Center and has provided free dance classes to underserved children at the Hispanic Outreach Center. She was also inducted into the National Dance Honors Society in 2019. Alyssa is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in business and has goals to earn certifications in progressing ballet technique and pilates. When not dancing, Alyssa enjoys putting rhinestones on everything she owns.