Catherine Noblitt holds a master?s degree in business administration and enjoyed her career in finance.

“I liked what I did, but as my sister said, it wasn?t really me. It was a role I was playing,” the soft-spoken Towson resident says. Noblitt had studied performance ballroom dance while in graduate school but after “four or five years in the corporate world,” she left that behind to embrace a new life in the performance arts.