Executive Director
Teresa Khan MacKay
Executive Director Teresa Khan MacKay has been a professional artist since the age of 12. Her love of beauty has taken her around the world and seen her work in many professions including Haute Couture in Paris and New York, marketing, modelling, teaching, photography, costume design, creating children’s environments and producing children’s products.
Teresa is a Montessori Teacher and Right Brain Educational Specialist. She has been a business owner and paid public speaker since the age of 22, speaking on the importance of beauty and the arts, encouraging young people to pursue their dreams.
Teresa knows first-hand that beauty brings great joy as she has four children, all classical ballet dancers, spreading the beauty of dance in the Unites States, Europe, South America, Asia and Russia.
Producer - Official Photographer & Videographer
Nicholas MacKay
Nicholas MacKay is the co-founder of MacKay Productions and official photographer/videographer the the Yellowstone International Arts Festival. A Montana native, he was born and raised in Bozeman. He is a classically trained ballet dancer from both the prestigious Russian Vaganova Ballet Academy and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, spending summers at The Royal Ballet School, in London. Moving from Montana to Moscow at the age of 9, he is the youngest non Russian to ever attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. While still a student, he performed with the Mariinsky, Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky Ballet Companies, toured Brussels and Berlin as a professional dancer in The Nutcracker, and performed in the original cast of the Bolshoi Ballet world premiere of Moidodyr.
At 15 Nicholas was launched into the world scene when his photos from “Project Polunin”, which was performed at Sadlers Wells in London featuring Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova, reached a worldwide audience. Continued success followed with photography/directing for: Armani Beauty, Paris Opera, Mariinsky Theatre, Balmain, Bolshoi Theatre, designer Tatyana Parfionova, the Shanghai Russell James and Victoria's Secret Show, Bloch, Grishko Russia, the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Sobaka Magazine, Esquire China, TIMEOUT magazine and many more. At the age of 18 he started, together with his brother Julian, a worldwide production company MacKay Productions to merge classical art, music and fashion. Nicholas, along with his brother Julian, is fluent in the Russian language. His main inspirations are Greek and Roman mythology and artists such as Rembrandt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Martin - famous for his depictions of godly power and Biblical landscapes. Nicholas has a French bull dog named Leo and his favourite Montana pastimes include floating the Madison River and capturing the stunning natural beauty of Montana.