Director/CEO

Josh Reynolds began his formal dance training at the age of 12 at Georgia Academy of Dance & the Performing Arts, under the direction of Sherri Davis with additional instruction from Academy dance educators Ramazon Bapov and Denis Malinkine. Reynolds quickly moved through the ranks to receive acceptance into the Academy's prestigious performing company, Georgia Dance Theatre. Subsequent to this, Reynolds pursued his dance education further at The Rock School in Philadelphia and the School of American Ballet in New York, each institution granting him a full scholarship.

In 2003, Reynolds began his career at Atlanta Ballet under the direction of John McFall. With Atlanta Ballet, Reynolds toured internationally and performed leading roles in Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, Christopher Hampson’s Sinfonietta Giocosa, The Great Gatsby, Stanton Welch’s Madame Butterfly, Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room, Lila York’s Celts, Mark Godden’s The Magic Flute, and George Balanchine’s Serenade and Allegro Brilliante. He originated roles in works by John McFall, Lori Stallings, Violette Verdy, Julia Adam, Helen Pickett, and Micheal Pink. Some of his performance collaborations with musicians include: The Red Clay Ramblers, The Indigo Girls, Big Boi from Outkast, Purple Ribbon Records and Janelle Monae. 

In 2010, Reynolds became the youngest artist to ever portray the title role in Michael Pink’s Dracula. In that same year Reynolds left Atlanta Ballet to join Milwaukee Ballet as a Leading Artist under the direction of Micheal Pink. While in Milwaukee, he performed leading roles in The Nutcracker, Coppelia, and Dracula while originating roles in works by Darrell Grand Moultrie and Mauro De Candia, in which Reynolds was a part of his Genesis award-winning creation. 

In the summer of 2011, Reynolds was asked to perform Ashton’s Cinderella pas de deux with Julianne Kepley, and Val Caniparoli’s Ibsen’s House with Frances Chung in Tallinn, Estonia as a founding member of Tiit Helimets & Company. Later that same summer, he performed a world premiere with DanceGrandMoultrie at SummerStage in New York, and performed an original duet by Darrell Grand Moultrie at the Cincinnati Gala of International Dance Stars. 

In 2012, Reynolds joined Smuin Contemporary Ballet in San Francisco, under the direction of Celia Fushille. While there, he toured with the company to Montana and performed at The Joyce Theater in New York City. Reynolds performed leading roles in Michael Smuin’s Eternal Idol, Carmina Burana, and Romeo & Juliet with his wife Jo-Ann Sundermeier. He also performed respected works including Jiri Kylian’s Return to a Strange Land, Helen Picket’s Petal, Adam Hougland’s Cold Virtues, Amy Seiwart’s Dear Miss Cline, Garrett Ammon’s Serenade for Strings and Trey McIntyre’s Oh, Inverted World. 

In the summer of 2015, before joining Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet as a second soloist, Reynolds and his wife Jo-Ann were invited to perform a duet from Pierced at the 10th anniversary performance of Move the Company in Vancouver, British Columbia under the direction of Joshua Beamish. At the conclusion of his first season, Reynolds was promoted to First Soloist and was offered Principal ranking during his final season, before returning to the states. Reynolds performed many leading roles with RWB in The Nutcracker, Jorden Morris’ Moulin Rouge®:The Ballet and Peter Pan, Val Caniparoli’s A Cinderella Story, Mark Godden’s Dracula and Lila York’s The Handmaid’s Tale. He further originated roles in world premieres by James Kudelka, Peter Quanz, Septime Webre, and Phillip Larouche in collaboration with Canadian musicians The Bros. Landreth. While in Winnipeg, Reynolds also performed as a member of Q Dance under the direction of Peter Quanz, and performed original works by Quanz and Heather Myers. 

Throughout Reynolds’ career, he performed as a guest member of New Orleans Ballet Theatre in the company’s Summer Solstice series and The Nutcracker, before joining full-time as Principal Dancer and Rehearsal Director in 2019. While at New Orleans Ballet Theatre, Reynolds originated roles in works by Diogo de Lima, Greg and Marjorie Schramel, Oliver Halkowich, Douglas Gawriljuk, and Maya Taylor. 

During his time in New Orleans, Reynolds also worked in the film industry, collaborating in a dance film with choreographer Diogo de Lima and his wife Jo-Ann called LOEV. He was the featured dancer in the music video for Bang Bang, a cover by singer Hazy Jane and was the choreography stand-in for Netflix’s Tall Girl 2.  Reynolds also choreographed a sequence in the documentary Blessed, and was a dancer in the Ben Affleck movie Deep Water. 

In the 2026-2027 season, Reynolds became the new director and owner of Georgia Academy of Dance & the Performing Arts. He is thrilled to return to Georgia with his wife Jo-Ann Sundermeier Reynolds and their daughter Ayla and is incredibly excited to shape the next generation of dancers at the Academy and its' performing company. Reynolds also serves as the CEO and president of the board of directors of Georgia Dance Theatre.