Mary Beth Budd
Founder/Design
Mary Beth Budd was a professional ballerina for over 20 years. Blessed with an adagio grace and elegant line, she was sought out as a guest artist in the renowned classical repertory such as the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle, and the Sleeping Beauty. Mary Beth performed and toured throughout the US as a company member of Dance Alive National Ballet, Connecticut Ballet Theatre, and the Garden State Ballet. She performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet at Lincoln Center for 14 seasons and appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's "Live from Lincoln Center" television broadcasts of "Aida", "Parsifal", and the “Pavarotti Gala”.
Before her professional ballet career, Ms. Budd earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame and while touring with Dance Alive National Ballet, she completed her Master's degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Florida. She was elected to both Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.
Mary Beth not only designs and manages Trienawear, she designs ballet school uniforms, ballet costumes, and dance costumes for schools, ballet companies, and individual commissions within the tri-state area. She studied design and business management at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and New York University. For the past 5 years, she has been an instructor/mentor for Design Entrepreneurs NYC .
Bill Prouty
Operations
Bill Prouty originally from Annapolis, Maryland, trained at the Washington School of Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet School. Bill has danced professionally with the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet, Washington Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and nationally as a free-lance guest artist.
In the world of fashion, Bill was an assistant stylist to Niki Dupin of the Ambrosi and Avanti agencies in New York City and Miami. His duties involved preparing the garments and dressing the models for photo shoots for major catalog companies.
With this experience, Bill was first hired by Trienawear to assist in catalog production. Seventeen years later and as Vice-President, Bill has been involved in all areas of operations including garment production, quality control, video production, and social media marketing.
Larissa Yoshiura
Branding
Larissa Yoshiura is a marketing professional with extensive experience in digital marketing. Before coming to New York, she was a Digital Project Manager for Pontomobi by Isobar, a Brazilian pioneer in mobile marketing. She moved to New York in 2014 to pursue a Master’s degree in Design Management at Pratt Institute. This MBA-like program bridges design with business strategy.
Upon graduation, Pratt Institute opened doors for Larissa to work with Made in NYC as a strategy consultant, where she met Mary Beth Budd. As an ardent supporter of the art of Ballet, Larissa felt an instant connection with Mary Beth, which led to Trienawear's rebranding and website redesign.
Currently, Ms. Yoshiura is a digital project manager for Fatfree Studio, a full-service digital marketing company based in New York City.
Anyssa Boyer
Model
Anyssa Boyer is a 16-year-old aspiring professional ballet dancer with an international dance and family heritage. Her mother is Brazilian, her father is American, her maternal grandmother is Portugese, and her maternal grandfather is Japanese. She speaks three languages fluently and has citizenship in Switzerland, Brazil, and the U.S.
Her early ballet training was with Conservatoire in Geneva, Switzerland. At the age of 13, to fulfill her dream, she joined the Gelsey Kirkland Academy in New York City. Her summers have been spent training at acclaimed programs in Monte-Carlo, London, Leeds, Milan, Cannes, Amsterdam, and New York City.
With the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, she has performed in the Nutcracker as a little girl in the Party Scene, Waltz of the Snowflakes, Chinese Dance, and Waltz of the Flowers and as Amour in Don Quixote’ s Dream Scene. Performing is this young ballerina's passion which she loves to share…. “On stage, I strive to be ‘an athlete of God’, enlightening viewing souls and transporting them to a dream-like land.”
Made in NYC
Made in NYC (MINYC), an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development was created to support a vibrant manufacturing sector in New York City. Local manufacturing encourages entrepreneurship and innovation, creates employment opportunities for New York’s extraordinarily diverse workforce and gives the city much of its character and soul.
New York City is home to 5,700 small and medium manufacturers. They make everything from pianos to landing gear for spacecraft, to food, fashion, and furnishings. What this incredibly diverse community has in common is a commitment to producing high-quality, high-value products, often customized to meet the needs of particular consumers.
Rachel Neville
Model Photography
A multi talented artist who utilizes the medium of photography, Rachel is a former dancer and teacher. Her images are informed as much from her dance history as they are from her innate creative vision and her clients visual needs. Rachel has spent many years shooting dance for a variety of clients and has deliberately and consciously chosen to perfect a visual style that translates the power and emotion of motion into still images.