Team Wild
Jill Wolins Pate
Jill Wollins Pate
Creative Director
Jill’s street cred started with her pro dance career at Disney🎉. She continued to dance as a NYC🗽 Rockette👯, Broadway National Tours, dancing on NBC, CBS, ABC, Universal and Columbia Pictures🎬, for numerous recording artists and at Lincoln Center. She has been associate choreographer for the opening number of Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade🦃, and has been a master teacher across the country and around the world🌎. She has worked with Starpower💫 since 2001, and is honored to say the Star Dance Alliance🤩 is her life. She is co-creator and co-director of the World Dance Pageant👑, and has been a part of the inaugural seasons of Nexstar⭐️, Believe😍, Imagine🎆, DreamMaker🌙, and the World Dance Championships🏆. The real fun began when she accepted the role as Junior 🎉Power Pak🪩 Director/Choreographer. She joined Team Wild🔥 as a Faculty member where she taught for over a decade before accepting the role as creative director. What she loves best about Wild🔥, aside from the amazing apprentices and dancers, is that each event is an SDA Team effort. Wild🔥 brings the best of what the Star Dance Alliance🤩 has to offer: incredible SDA🤩 competition staff and the best diverse faculty working together to create fun memorable dance events for kids! Oh, and she can’t help that she loves the Wild Child room! ❤️
Madison O’Malley
Madison O'Malley
Managing Director
Mad Dog basically grew up at the Star Dance Alliance🤩, attending all SDA🤩 comps, Wild🔥, and Power Pak🪩 as a kid. She began her SDA🤩 career as a Team Leader for Power Pak. Soon after she graduated to a number of roles with in the SDA: regional director for Starpower💫, Power Pak🪩 assistant director, World Dance Pageant 👑 coordinator, World Dance Championship🏆 Corespondent, and International Assistant for Starpower International in UK🇬🇧, Costa Rica🇨🇷, Battle on the Seas🛳 and Australia🇦🇺. Madison can not help that her favorite part of being a member of Team Wild🔥 includes her gettin down as “Captain SDA.” 🍟
Best SDA Kid Memory: Getting called out for the first time as a featured dancer in Ade Obayomi’s💪🏿class in AC
Lauren Fahlman
Lauren Fahlman
Venue Liaison, Tabulator, Registration
Ms Fahlman has been part of the Star Dance Alliance🤩 for almost a decade. She is a regional director and senior tabulator🧮 for Nexstar⭐️, Petite Coordinator for the World Dance Pageant👑, and correspondent for the World Dance Championship🏆. She started getting Wild🔥 in 2017 as tabulator🧮, and is now exercising her boss lady skills as venue, accommodation and travel facilitator. She started as a competitive dancer, has a BFA📜 in dance, has taught a numerous schools in the Detroit metropolitan area, but her first love was ballet🩰 and is certified in Progressing Ballet Technique🩰.
*Proud SDA Moment: Directing the SDA🤩/Youth Villages and Janie’s Fund campaign to raise almost $200,000🤑 at our first event to help young women across the country affected by domestic and sexual abuse. Lauren loves the opportunity to help others❤️
Ryan McCarty
Ryan McCarty
AV Specialist, Senior Room Director, Social Media and Digital Coordinator
Ryan has been part of the SDA🤩 for over a decade and is currently the Assistant National🇺🇸 Director of Nexstar⭐️ Talent Competition. He choreographed for and directed a competitive dance studio for 12 years as he travelled the globe🌎 teaching hip hop master classes and setting choreography. Ryan joined Team Wild🔥 in 2021 and loves the opportunity to enjoy the many aspects the dance workshop world has to offer. He programs media and monitors📺, teaches on faculty, creates social media📱 content, directs the senior dance room, and is even an MC🎤 for the events!
Kathryn McCarty
Kathryn McCarty
Wild Child Room Director and Faculty
Kathryn started with the SDA🤩 as an Executive Adjudicator for Nexstar⭐️, and continued as Judge⚖️ and Faculty for the World Dance Pageant👑 and Championship🏆. She was then ready to really get WILD🔥 as the room director of the Wild Child Curriculum. Kathryn’s professional dance career started in the ballet world🩰, and continued with Disney internationally in Tokyo🇯🇵 and on the Disney Cruise Lines🛳 as dance captain. Kathryn has taught and set choreography across the country🇺🇸 and is currently on faculty at the Dayton Ballet🩰.
Fav SDA memory: Traveling✈️🌎 with the team to 🦘AUSTRALIA🐨to adjudicate STARPOWER💫 International🇦🇺
Alex DeTrolio
Alex Detrolio
Apprentice Coordinator, Social Media Specialist
Alex is Regional Director of Imagine Dance Challenge🎆, World Dance Championship🏆 corespondent, and Star Dance Alliance🤩 Social Media📱 Specialist. Alex started her dance performance career as a kid dancing in NYC🌃 with Liberty🗽 “Lil Torches” and at Madison Square Garden with both Knick🏀 City kids, and Knick🏀 City Dancers. Her unique “Leaps and Turns” technique have been shared across the country🇺🇸 at competitive studios and many US college dance teams such as Rutgers and Holy Angels. Alex joined the Wild🔥 party in 2021 as Social Media📱 Specialist, Apprentice Coordinator and Teen Dance Room Director.
*Best SDA Memory: hosting the Final Five for the first time with none other than Kacy Combs!
Tammy Richins
Chrystan Sheatzley
Daniella Buxbaum
Joey DeSantino
Production Team
- Paco Powell
- Brad Harper
- Jahrad Deakyne
- Curtis Blanton
- Ryan Fremder
- Liam Daily
- Julian Gaulding
- Shane Hoskins
