Shauntay is a native of New York City, born and raised in Brooklyn having lived in Manhattan, Staten Island and Harlem USA.  She currently resides with her wife in Virginia. 

Shauntay has enjoyed living a patchwork quilt life, she’s performed professionally as an actress on stage, film (TV and Cinema) and she’s worked as a standardized patient/client performing many roles for different organizations including medical schools and law firms utilizing her acting skills as a teaching tool for communication and other profession specific skill such as bedside manner. She’s worked for three different companies as a certified hypnotherapist, when it was still quite under the radar.  She has done adoption case management among other social service work over the years.  She worked as a monitor engineer for Record Books, a fitness instructor landing contracts with The NYC Department of Health and at Senior Citizen Centers.  Basically, there is not much that Shauntay has not done in her endeavor to learn explore and grow in this lifetime.  She has a BA in Sociology Human Based Relations, She became an Interfaith Minister with All Faiths Seminary International with Rabbi Gelberman and continues to learn and explore ways to live creatively and fully.

Shauntay has walked across hot coals twice, climbed up to the top of a telephone pole and jumped off, fallen backwards off a platform into the arms of strangers and even took an arial class!!!! Her love for dance has led her to study many forms from ballet, Graham, Horton, Dunham, Simonson Jazz, African Dance, Middle Eastern (bellydance), Haitian Dance, Pole Dance, NIA Dance- ok, anything with Dance in it she’s tried.

Shauntay loves exploring and playing!