Professional Summary
Megan Flynn, MFA, begins her new role as Assistant Professor of Dance at CCM on Aug. 15, 2026.
Flynn is a versatile dance educator, choreographer and performer. She is passionate about supporting students to discover a more expansive, holistic embodiment of dance technique, performance and art-making, which reflects her own journey as a dance artist.
Flynn joins CCM after serving as Resident Faculty at the Cincinnati Ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy, where she taught across the Professional Training, Young Dancer, Preparatory and Adult Divisions.
From 2022-24, she served as the Gustave L. Davis ’59 and Susan S. Davis Director of Dance/Artist-in-Residence at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Previously, Flynn was an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Theatre & Dance Department at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, where she was on faculty from 2013-22. In addition to teaching courses in dance technique, choreography, improvisation and dance history, she served as the Artistic Director and a faculty mentor for the Muhlenberg Community Dance Center. She has guest taught for the Cincinnati Ballet’s Summer Intensive and Youth Summer Intensive (OH), Earl Mosely’s Institute of the Arts (NYC), Philadelphia Dance Academy (PA), Delaware Valley Dance Academy (PA), Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy (MA), Summer Stages Dance at the Boston Ballet School (MA) and the Skipton Summer School (England).
Flynn earned her MFA in Dance from the University of California-Irvine in 2012, and her BFA in Dance, summa cum laude, from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 2003. She continued her studies at the Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, England, and received a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies in 2004. After graduating from LABAN, she was invited to join Daghdha Dance Company’s inaugural cohort of emerging artists for their mentorship program in Limerick, Ireland. Performances abroad include: Edinburgh Fringe (Scotland); Brighton Fringe (England); Resolution! Festival (England); The Russia Project (Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Ekaterinburg, Russia); and the Dance Improvisation & Choreography Festival (Spain).
In 2015, she founded the Megan Flynn Dance Company (MFDC) in Philadelphia, and continues to perform and present her choreography nationally and internationally. Her work has been presented at ATLAS/ImPulsTanz:Vienna International Dance Festival (Austria); Built on Stilts Dance Festival (Martha’s Vineyard, MA); The NADINE Project (CT); Cincinnati Fringe Festival (OH), Dayton Dance Initiative/Dayton Live Arts (OH); BOOM! Charlotte (NC); Delaware Art Museum (DE); Come Together Dance Festival (PA), Philadelphia Fringe Festival (PA), Reading Terminal Market (PA), Koresh Artists' Showcase (PA), KYLD’s InHale Performance Series (PA), Williams Center for the Arts (PA); Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts (NY), WaxWorks at Triskelion Arts (NYC), Mark Morris Dance Center (NYC), Actor’s Fund Arts Center (NYC), Dixon Place (NYC), Gowanus Guest Room Series (NYC), Choreography on the Edge (NY); RE:Find Gallery (PA), Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange’s Spring UP Festival (PA); xMPL, and Claire Trevor Theaters (UCIrvine); Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland); Laban’s Bonnie Bird Theater (Laban, England); and site-specific locations throughout southern Spain.
Recent choreographic commissions include Cincinnati Ballet’s Professional Training Division, Northern Kentucky University, Union College, Muhlenberg College, Hope College, and Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts. Her creative and pedagogical research has been presented at the American College Dance Association, National Dance Education Organization, Women in Dance Leadership, and SoTL Summit.
As a dancer, Flynn performed in New York City and Boston with David Parker & The Bang Group, Eliza Miller Dance, Kathy Westwater and Nicole Pierce/EgoArt, Inc.Flynn is a member of The NADINE Project, a choreographic collective under the direction of Libby Nye and Janet Soares, in-residence at The Dragon’s Egg in Ledyard, CT. In addition to her work with MFDC, Flynn is a dance artist with Dayton Dance Initiative; performs with Gabriel Martinez Rubio’s Dos Corazones Productions, and creates original dance theater work in collaboration with Teresa VanDenend Sorge in Cincinnati.