Tammy Westafer began studies at The Augusta Ballet School at the age of fifteen. She became an apprentice at sixteen and a Company member the following year. Tammy attended Brenau Women´s College, graduating Cum Laude with a B.A. in Ballet Pedagogy. While there, she performed as a soloist with the Gainesville Ballet. She has also appeared with North Carolina Dance Theatre in their production of "The Nutcracker" and with the Center Dance Ensemble in Phoenix, AZ. Tammy has attended summer workshops at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Atlanta Ballet School, South Carolina Governor´s School for the Arts, and on scholarship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and the Ririe-Woodbury Modern Dance Workshop. Tammy has received a grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts as well as a Monticello Award for choreography. This award sent her to the National Choreographers Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. With the Augusta Ballet, Tammy has been seen as the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Dewdrop Fairy and the Arabian in "Nutcracker," a soloist in many repertory pieces, a featured dancer in the "Wynton Marsalis Collaboration," as the Rose in "Beauty and the Beast" and as the Queen in "The Three Musketeer." She has also been seen in the Augusta Opera´s productions of "West Side Story," "The Merry Widow," and "Carmen." Tammy has been on staff as a teacher with the Augusta Ballet School for four years. This will be her seventh season with the Company.