Meet The Team

Susan Hebach has worked full time with the ATDF for the past 18 years helping to develop and plan the educational programs & classes offered at ATDF.  She has dedicated her career to tap dance! After earning her B.S. in Dance Education from Georgia State University, she moved to NYC to study Tap at "Woodpeckers Tap Dance Center & Inter Arts Space" with Brenda Bufalino and members of the ATDO. Her teaching accomplishments include serving on the dance faculty at Oklahoma City University and Stephens College, and teaching locally in NYC at Steps on Broadway, Rosie's Theater Kids, the 92nd St. Y and the PS 11 after school program.  However, her mainstay and home has been the American Tap Dance Foundation where she directed the youth program, was co-director of the Tap Teacher Training Program (with Margaret Morrison) and directed the Tap City Youth Ensemble since it's inception in 2006-2024.