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2025-2026 NFB ARTISTIC STAFF, Cont.
Teresa Major Greer, Wardrobe Manager
A Louisville native, Teresa Greer has a long, successful career in Ballet costuming.
Her home company is the Louisville Ballet, the official dance company of Kentucky.
Ms. Greer has created costumes for Ballet Met in Columbus, Ohio; Atlanta Ballet;
Dayton Ballet; Cincinnati Ballet; Nashville Ballet; Ballet Memphis; and Chattanooga
Ballet. Through the decades, Ms. Greer has enjoyed collaborating with numerous
costume designers, notably David Walker, Elroy Ashemore, Judanna Lynn, Carol
Kingston, Sandra Woodall, and former Louisville Ballet artistic director, Alun Jones.
Additional employment with Louisville performing arts organizations includes
Kentucky Opera, Bunbury Theatre, and several independent film productions
throughout Kentucky. Ms. Greer earned a BA degree in Studio Art in 1976. Semiretired, Teresa resides in Louisville and is returning to her roots as a Fiber Artist. She
devotes most of her time to making Felt.
David Ott, NFB Music Director
David Ott ranks among America’s most-performed composers of the late twentieth
and early twenty-first centuries. His works have been performed or recorded by
some of America’s and Europe’s most renowned orchestras, including the Chicago,
National, Minnesota, Atlanta and London Symphonies. He has garnered critical
praise and received numerous awards for his compositions and continues to be
commissioned for works by major orchestras throughout the U.S. He has been cited
as “one of the greats of American symphony music composers of the last quarter of
the twentieth century.”
Presently Ott is Music Director and Conductor of the Panama City Pops Orchestra, a
sixty-five piece ensemble that performs six concerts each season. He also serves as
Director of Music Ministries and Organist at Christ the King Episcopal Church in
Santa Rosa Beach, where he leads a chamber music concert series.
Bernadette Clements Sims, Founder
Bernadette Sims studied with Mary Lou Noletto, Lee Partridge and Duane
Dishion. At the age of 18 she auditioned for George Balanchine and placed third
in a regional audition for study at the School of American Ballet in New York
City. She won a scholarship to study with Alexandra Danilova at the Ballet Arts
Studio at Carnegie Hall.
Bernadette also studied with Robert Joffrey and Richard Englund and performed
with the Mobile Ballet, the New Orleans Ballet and the Birmingham Ballet. In
1964 she was 1st runner up to Miss Alabama. After marrying, she moved to Fort
Walton Beach and founded the Northwest Florida Ballet in 1969.
