Lawan Morrison is the founder of Peninsula Dance Theatre and has been PDT’s Artistic Director for thirty-two years. She owns and operates the Bremerton Dance Center, providing dance instruction to Kitsap county for forty years, and has taught dance for forty-six years. She also serves as a guest teacher at Olympic College in Bremerton. As a choreographer, she has collaborated with directors throughout the local area, including Oregon and Montana.

In 2002, Ms. Morrison received the YWCA's coveted "Women of Achievement Award." She is an avid member of the "Red Hat Club." An active member of the West Sound Arts Council board, Ms. Morrison has worked to promote the arts in the greater Kitsap community for many years.

Ms. Morrison has twice served as president of Regional Dance America/Pacific. In 200, she hosted the RDA/Pacific Dance Festival. Twenty-two dance companies from the West Coast participated.

Diana Lau, Junior Company Assistant Director

Diana Lau has danced and taught ballet and jazz for ten years in the Kitsap area. Formerly a member of Central Valley Ballet a Regional Dance Company in California, she found Peninsula Dance Theatre a good match when she moved to Silverdale. Diana attended UC Irvine where she received a BFA in dance. She danced professionally with New Urban Dance in the Bay Area and danced in a PBS special presentation on dance history in 1982.

Diana currently teaches for Bremerton Dance Center and Olympic College. She has choreographed for Peninsula Dance Theatre, Olympic College, Cstock, Bremerton Community Theatre, Central Kitsap High School Dance Team and Kitsap Opera. In the fall of 2004 she choreographed West Side Story for Cstock.

Alan Futterman, Music Director

Alan Futterman is the Music Director of both the Peninsula Ballet Orchestra and the Academy Chamber Orchestra. He served on the Faculty of Central Washington University for 10 years and as Music Director of the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Dover Symphony, Principal Conductor for the Weierstrass Society Concerts of Contemporary Music (New York, NY) and Conductor in Residence for Jeunesse Musicale of Europe (Croatia).

Mr. Futterman holds a Master's degree from the Juilliard School of Music, a Bachelor's degree from Manhattan School of Music, and completed two years of Doctoral Studies and advanced studies in Linguistics and Musicology at Brandeis University.

Always active as a composer, Mr. Futterman's works include orchestral and chamber music. His Ode, with text by Theodore Roethke, was performed on tour in many cities throughout the United States. Lepi nash kostanich, variations on an original Istrian folk song, was premiered in the spring of 1995 and has been performed on numerous occasions in the U.S. and in Croatia. His orchestral works include Farrago and Fugue(1997); Double Trouble, a setting of the Witches' Scene from Macbeth; the World Beat Dance Suite #1 (1998); World Beat Dance Suite #2 (2000) and Fiesta Mexicana (2005).

You can hear his Chamber Orchestra here