2025 Gala

Sue Mesner Howard, a Princeton native, began her ballet journey with Audrée Estey when she was five, and continued dancing with the Princeton Ballet Society through high school. 

Sue is a visual artist and graduated from Hood College with post graduate study at Rutgers.  Along with navigating a painting and sculpture career, she has taught art at Stuart School, various area public schools, and the Princeton Art Association. She enthusiastically supports many cultural organizations in New Jersey and Manhattan.  Sue is a former board member of the Corner House Foundation and is currently a member of the Hightstown Cultural Arts Commission.  She is also a trustee of Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and last year became a member of the American Repertory Ballet/Princeton Ballet School board.  Her love of dance has happily come full circle!   

Sue Howard is pictured here with her beautifully preserved Princeton Ballet Nutcracker Sugar Plum Fairy costume from the 1960s.

Amy Megules began dancing with the Vineland Regional Dance Company and received her BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase, where she received the Bert Terborgh Dance Award. She apprenticed with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and then danced with American Repertory Ballet. Amy has also been on faculty at Today’s Dance Center, the National Dance Institute of Trenton, and Mercer County Community College. Amy taught and choreographed for the Otto M. Budig Academy of Cincinnati Ballet, the College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division of the University of Cincinnati, and she was the ballet instructor for the elite and accelerated gymnasts at the Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. Amy enjoys teaching the littlest dancers through adults. She is a Children’s Rehearsal Director for ARB’s The Nutcracker and Princeton Ballet School’s Spring productions.