Rate My Professor Megan Zollinger

Megan Glynn Zollinger is an Associate Professor of Dance, Dance Program Coordinator, and Associate Chair in the Music, Theatre, and Dance Department at California State University, Chico. She earned a BA in Dance from Chapman University and an MFA in Dance from the University of California, Irvine, where Donald McKayle mentored her thesis. Zollinger joined CSU, Chico in 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Dance and has since earned tenure. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor of Dance and Director of the BFA Dance program at Colorado Mesa University, presenting at conferences for the Colorado Dance Education Organization and the American College Dance Association. A native of Napa, California, she began dancing at age four and started teaching and choreographing by age 15, with training in commercial dance, musical theatre, and voice.

Zollinger has created numerous original choreography works, including Addicted, which she wrote, directed, and choreographed; Eve’s Rapture, world-premiered at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles; and a tearful view, selected for the 2009 California College Dance Invitational. Her choreography credits span Berkeley Playhouse, Colorado Mesa University, Mesa Repertory Theatre, Canyon Concert Ballet, Showboat Theatre, CSU Chico productions, Lincoln Theatre Napa Valley, Napa Valley Opera House, Benicia Old Town Theatre, Justin-Siena Theatre, Darkroom Productions, Solano College Theatre, Uncle Dad's Art Collective, and Hope West. She directed Jazz Dance at Westlake School for the Performing Arts in Daly City, taught and choreographed with Lisa Clark Dancers, and performed with the hip hop company Pulse at Chapman University. Her students have appeared on Broadway, in music videos and films, and on television programs such as Live to Dance, America’s Best Dance Crew, America’s Got Talent, and So You Think You Can Dance. Since 2019, she has contributed freelance writing to DancePlug, a leading online resource for dancers and educators. In 2025, she joined the advisory board of OASIS Center International, a non-profit supporting low-income youth in the arts. Zollinger holds memberships in the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), American College Dance Association (ACDA), and Musical Theatre Educators Alliance (MTEA), and is trained in Best Practices by Theatrical Intimacy Educators.