Rhonda Roberts is an accomplished performer with credits in award-winning stage, film, and TV productions. She has over 35 years of teaching and 25 years of adjudicating experience. She also guest instructs at several Ontario performing arts schools, and is a Professional Adjudicators Alliance member.
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Rhonda Roberts is an accomplished performer, instructor and adjudicator of dance who has appeared in productions across North America and Europe.
She was awarded a full scholarship and later the triple threat award from the acclaimed Randolph College for the Performing Arts in Toronto.
Rhonda has performed in several stage productions. Most notably she was an original Toronto company member of Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast, at the Princess of Whales Theatre. Toured with the U.S. National company of the Tony® Award-winning musical Ragtime, played the role of Shenzi in the Tony Award-winning show Disney’s The Lion King at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre. She was blessed to be in Guys and Dolls and Anything Goes at the prestigious Stratford Festival.
On screen Ms. Roberts has appeared in the #1 Amazon Prime hit, The Boys, the Academy Award®-winning film Chicago, the New Line Cinema release Hairspray The Movie, along with a list of other film and recurring TV roles.
She has been teaching for more than 35 years and adjudicating for over 20 years. Her résumé includes several years of teaching at University of Toronto, and recurring posts at McMaster University, York University, O.I.P, Steps Performing Arts Centre in Hamilton, National Dance Theatre and Randolph College for the Performing Arts in Toronto. She has been an adjudicator for Terpsichore Dance Celebration, American Dance Awards, Onstage Dance Competition, Kiwanis Festival, Rising Star at the CNE and The World Dance Championships in Orlando, Florida, to name only a few.
She currently has recurring choreography engagements at Etobicoke School of the Arts and has been guest instructing at Mayfield Secondary school and Canada’s National Ballet School.
In 2012, Rhonda opened her own studio called The Art of Balance (TAB). Here she is combining the worlds of dance, fitness and other mind–body practices to promote a sense of homeostasis in the body.
In 2016 Rhonda was named one of CanFitPro’s Top 3 Fitness Professionals.
Ms. Roberts is also a member of the Professional Adjudicators Alliance, she is a certified member with Acro Dance Adjudicator. Rhonda was a board member of Healthy Dancer Canada and was the chair of the BIPOC Advocacy working group since its inception in 2020. The committee proudly created a scholarship program for BIPOC emerging artists.
Rhonda is a certified personal trainer. She holds a degree in Sociology from McMaster University and a music theatre diploma from Randolph College for the Performing Arts.