Staff

Perry James

Perry James is the owner and director of the Georgia School of Performing Arts.  She is a trained professional teacher of Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Pointe, Musical Theatre and Acting.  She trained in the UK with the Royal Academy of Dance® and the ISTD®, as well as LAMDA® and has over 25 years of teaching experience.  Perry worked as a professional dancer and choreographer in Europe before pursuing a full-time career as a dance and drama teacher.  Perry is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.  Perry's students have gone on to some of the most prestigious dance colleges in the UK; the Royal Ballet School, Bird College, Stella Mann College, Laine Theatre Arts, and Bush Davies, and many are now working in the theatre in productions across Europe and America.

Hilary Paige Willis

Hilary Paige Willis is an Acting, Musical Theatre, Jazz, Tap, and Hip-Hop teacher at the Georgia School of Performing Arts.  She is a 2007 graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, a conservatory in New York City. Hilary has been an actor with the Atlanta Workshop Players, and has worked at the Six Flags Fright Fest and Stone Mountain Christmas events in 2009.  She is currently working as a jobbing actress and singer in the Atlanta area.