Roman Mejia

Roman Mejia was born in Fort Worth, Texas and began studying ballet at age 3 with his mother and father. At age 13, he entered the Mejia Ballet Academy. Mejia attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet in 2014 and 2015 before entering SAB full time for the 2015 winter term. In the summer of 2017, Mejia became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and he joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet later that year. Mejia was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2021 and principal in 2023.

In 2019, Dance Magazine featured Mejia as one of their “25 To Watch” picks, and he became a recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation’s USA Dance Fellowship. In 2020, he was named a Clives Barnes finalist, and in 2022, he was Vail Dance Festival’s Artist in Residence. . His repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, William Forsythe, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon, among many others. Most recently, he starred in Twyla Tharp’s TWYLA NOW and Tiler Peck’s Artists at the Center at New York City Center.