Rheya Shano is a 2nd generation half-Japanese Boston native, trained at The Brookline Ballet School under the direction of Trinidad Vives and Parren Ballard. 

As a student, she participated in numerous ballet competitions, most notably the Prix de Lausanne in 2019, and the USA IBC in 2018, where she was a Bronze medal prize winner. 

She went on to dance in the second company of Tulsa Ballet for the 2019-2020 season.