Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Payton McCollam is a Senior at Indiana University, earning a B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance and a Minor in Arts Management. Payton has performed the works of Katie Phelan Mayfield, Elizabeth Shea, Meira Goldberg, and Christian Classens within Journeys of Joy, Cultural Immersion, and Reconstructed / Reframed - Winter Dance Concert performances for IU Contemporary Dance. She has choreographed for Junior Choreographic Performance Project (2023), Student Lead Independent Project (2023), part of a fifteen-minute live Organ Piece with the Jacobs School of Music (2023, Co-Choreographer Anya Gustafson), and New Moves/New Directions (2025).