Danielle Broyles (Levas) – Founder & Artistic Director

      Danielle Broyles is the founder and artistic director of Rising Stars Theater Arts.  Danielle is a musical theater professional and has performed all over San Diego in musicals with Moonlight Stage Productions, Lawrence Welk, San Diego Musical Theatre, Starlight, Temecula Valley Players, New Village Arts, and has worked as a performer at both Sea World and Disneyland.  While she loves to perform, her passion is bringing the theatre arts to the youth. She has worked all over San Diego for the past 18 years teaching, choreographing and directing with Christian Youth Theatre, North County School of the Arts, Cathedral Catholic High School, Maranatha Christian School, Carlsbad Community Theatre, Christian Community Theatre, The Star Theater, and CYT New York. She started San Elijo Middle School's Rising Stars program 5 years ago and has become the Program Director of the Starz2B program at Carrillo Elementary.  She is a NYA award winning director and two-time winning choreographer. She has choreographed and directed over 40 productions in the San Diego and New York area. She currently is the drama teacher at San Elijo Elementary School and taught music at Carrillo Elementary for four years. Whether it is music, singing, dancing or acting, she loves to teach and inspire kids to grow in the theatre arts. She is extremely thrilled to be starting her own program and bring the theater arts to more schools and students. 

"I can't wait to see what the future holds for our Rising Stars " 

Susie Dycus- Instructor & Production Manager

   Susie has served as producer and director for multiple shows internationally in Asia as well as several cruise lines including, Cunard, Norwegian, and Royal Caribbean.  She spent five years touring as dance captain for the National Touring Company Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, worked as a Production and Entertainment Manager at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and spent years performing in regional theatre roles (Grease, Evita, How to Succeed in Business, Can Can, Hello Dolly, Bye, Bye, Birdie) and more. Susie has also appeared in Las Vegas with Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage.  Trained in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, Polynesian, and Flamenco dance, she has studied and worked in both New York and Los Angeles, and taught extensively in arts schools in California and Nevada as well as her own studio in Orlando, FL. She has served on the production team at San Elijo Middle School with the Rising Stars program for the last 4 years and is heading up their new theater arts workshops this year.  Currently Susie resides in San Elijo Hills, CA with her husband and three children where she also works with special needs children in the San Marcos Unified School District.