Saundra Decker began her dance and performance journey (a long time ago) at the age of 6. She was a competitive dancer, twirler and singer throughout her childhood accumulating over 100 national titles as well as over 1,000 awards for her performances. She graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Theater Arts and a minor in dance. She was crowned Miss West Virginia in 1987 and competed at the 1988 Miss America Pageant where she received a non-finalist talent award and the Cavalier Talent Scholarship award. She was co-owner and instructor of Performer's Academy in San Antonio, Texas, a studio providing ballet, jazz, tap and baton twirling for all ages for over 10 years. As a choreographer, Mrs. Decker has also coached numerous State Champion colorguards for high schools in Texas and surrounding states. She homeschooled her daughter, Cassidy Decker for 9 years and has loved giving her the opportunities to grow and blossom with her God given gifts and talents. CYT has been a second home to Saundra and her family and she is more than excited to help her CYT students to learn, grow and become proficient and expressive in their dance skills.

Heather Stamper holds a B.A. in Theater and is a seasoned creative, spanning work in New York, Los Angeles, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. A huge proponent of how theater benefits people with greater confidence and superior communication abilities, Heather believes in the power of community and connectedness that theater offers. Her repertoire of expertise includes the consent-based practice of Intimacy Direction, utilizing over 200+ hours of training with top organizations in the country. She works with IntimacyonStage.com consulting for performance companies & schools of all sizes to embed these human-centric practices into the fiber of performance arts and recently earned the Intimacy Educator Advocate distinction. Previously, she served as Executive Director for two different performance arts organizations, and worked in corporate management, during which time she earned a Six Sigma Green Belt, and was a highly recognized train-the-trainer for innovation and ideation facilitation. Heather happily serves her local church on the tech crew, is a freelance writer and performer, bakes sourdough bread, and crochets. She and her husband have been married 21 wonderful years and they have two sons, Tim and Eli. On stage some of her favorite experiences have been Eliza in My Fair Lady, Maria in Sound of Music (twice!), and leads in both The Mikado and The Threepenny Opera. Psalm 104:33: "I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live."