KAILEY KLOPFENSTEIN

Executive Director

Kailey Klopfenstein brings expertise in all areas of non-profit dance management including marketing, ticketing, grant administration, fundraising, finance and event management.

Ms. Klopfenstein began working for the Central Florida Ballet as a company dancer and office assistant in 2007. She was promoted to Office Manager in 2010, Director of Operations in 2018, and Executive Director in May of 2024.

From 2004-2013, she danced many featured roles including Maria, Snow Queen, Shepherdess Doll, and Spanish Lead in The Nutcracker, Pas de Deux in 9/11 An American Moment, and Pas de Trois in Paquita; partnered by Eddy Tovar, Etienne Diaz, and Bogdan Plopeanu to name a few. She graduated magna cum laude on scholarship from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration in 2011.

She has achieved many milestones during her administrative tenure including: 1) Crafting and leading the general public Nutcracker marketing campaigns in 2022 and 2023; achieving the highest revenue record in the company's history in 2023 and the 2nd highest revenue record in 2022 2) Expanding CFB’s free in-school performance program for Title One Schools from 400 to 3,260+ students impacted per year, 3) Creating social media channels for the CFB/WBC and producing weekly content, which have achieved an annual reach of 15 million, 4) Serving as event manager for seven editions of the World Ballet Competition OPEN held in Romania and Brazil, and 5) Leading the Nutcracker school field trip marketing campaign to achieve sold-out performances at the 2,643 seat Linda Chapin Theater year after year.

She designed a new, dynamic website for the World Ballet Competition in 2022 and was an instrumental figure in upgrading the World Ballet Competition’s competitor registration portal. She also implemented and managed a new ticketing system, Tix.com, for the Central Florida Ballet and World Ballet Competition during the 2022-23 Season.

As the Central Florida Ballet’s sole grant writer, she attained more than $2.4 million dollars in grant funding since 2010 as well as boosted the company’s grant application scores to achieve multiple first, second and third place rankings in competitive grant programs. Her awards include a full scholarship to Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre at the World Ballet Competition, full scholarship to Atlanta Ballet at the American Dance Competition, and an Individual Artist Grant from United Arts of Central Florida.