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“Passionately smashing every expectation.” -Lin Manuel Miranda

  • Payton is personally driven to make the entertainment industry healthier, more sustainable, and accessible to those with varying backgrounds. Through her work, she strives to connect performers across the US and beyond to companies looking for talent!

  • Payton’s life has always been filled with dance, a fact that she is the most grateful for. Having trained throughout her life in jazz, ballet, tap, hip-hop, acro, commercial, lyrical, contemporary, pom, modern & improv, she always is seeking opportunities explore different styles. Growing up in a studio her mother owned, she knew from a young age the importance of professionalism and a positive attitude. Payton’s positivity is the biggest asset she has bringing into every project, and she hopes to work with you as well!

  • Payton has been choreographing longer than she can remember! Apparently, as a three year old, she knew her dance routines, but for her solos, she would improvise each time she hit the stage…and the movement always matched the music! Payton has choreographed as a profession from the young age of 16, and has done high school cheer and dance routines, gymnastics floor and beam routines, show choirs, as well as full length musicals! If you’ve got movement needing to be finessed, she’s got you covered!

  • Since assistant directing Mamma Mia, Payton is jumping full force into the world of producing. If you have any opportunities needing support or leadership, send her a message!

  • Having grown up dancing, of course music has always been a vital heartbeat of Payton’s life! From a young age, she enjoyed singing in choirs, show choir, and musicals growing up, but as she shifted her sights to professional performance, the triple threat aspect took over! Since then, she has trained at AMDA, taken vocal lessons, musical theatre classes, studied scenes and acting concepts, and is constantly expanding her view of the performance world!

Performer in green and black outfit on stage, wearing a knee brace, surrounded by decorative lights. Six the musical. Payton Steffensen. Miss South Dakota

“It takes courage

to be kind.”

-Maya Angelou