CREATIVE TEAM

Sabrina Gail Lobner
Director & Choreographer, Nutcracker 2025

Sabrina received her training from the Northwest Florida Ballet. Upon graduating high school, she accepted an invitation to join Martha Graham Dance Company’s second company, Graham 2. Lobner has since performed in Dior’s “Carousel of Dreams”, Die Schweigsame Frau with Bard SummerScape, La Traviata with Seattle Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Carousel with The Wick Theatre, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with The Wick Theatre. Her television work comprises HBO’s The Plot Against America and Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Lobner choreographed her first evening-length work, If I Reach You, while attending Sarah Lawrence College. She was selected to present a new full-length work, Little Marble Kisses, at The Tank NYC. Additional choreographic credits include commissions for Westchester Ballet Company and Northwest Florida Ballet, contributing choreography for The Mechanicals Theater Co. in NYC, and premiering Drink Me in Developments: Original Works by New York Choreographers, a festival she produced. She recently performed in Boston Lyric Opera’s premiere production of Carousel, directed by Anne Bogart and choreographed by Shura Baryshnikov.

Sharyn Korey
Director of Casting, Nutcracker 2025

Sharyn is originally from Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and received her early training at Logrea Dance Academy. She performed with the Westchester Ballet Company for seven years before joining Richmond Ballet, where she performed in Serenade, Coppélia, Nutcracker, and original works. She earned a degree in International Studies from Middlebury College and then moved to Brooklyn to work as a freelance dancer. An ABT certified instructor, she currently teaches ballet at the Mark Morris Dance Center and is an adjunct instructor of dance at Hofstra University. She’s also the co-founder of NACHMO, a choreography festival open to everyone, and the director of Sunset Park Dance, a studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.