Jillian Mitchell is a classical ballet and contemporary dancer, choreographer, and community leader. She trained at the Milligan School of Ballet before attending boarding school at the Harid Conservatory and Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, professional division. She spent summers studying at The National Ballet School, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, BalletMet, and on full scholarship at Complexions Contemporary Ballet. 

She performed professionally with New Jersey Ballet, Rebecca Davis Dance (now Mindleaps), Roxey Ballet, Georgia Ballet, gloATL, Proia Dance Project, and The Atlanta Opera. She's performed many classical ballets and the work of George Balanchine, Mark Godden, Ron de Jesus, Ronnie D. Carney, Stuart Loungway, Dwight Rhoden, Jae Man Joo, Sean Nguyen-Hilton, Seyong Kim, Mark Caserta, and more. Jillian was a guest soloist at several galas, including Stars of Ballet and Broadway and Stars of Russian Ballet. 

Jillian has twenty years of teaching experience at numerous academies. She has guest taught for Georgia College & State University, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Pluck Project), the University of Georgia Department of Dance, Dance Gallery Festival, the University of South Carolina, the Alabama Dance Festival, Staibdance, ImmerseATL, and Fly on a Wall. 

In 2017, Jillian founded the celebrated Atlanta-based ensemble Kit Modus and developed their distinctive training technique Modus and a choreographic residency program. 

In addition to creating numerous works for her company, her choreography was presented at  Georgia College, Georgia State University, The University of Georgia, The Women in Dance Leadership Conference, the Dumbo Dance Festival, and Jacksonville University. 

Jillian is currently on staff at The University of Georgia Dance Department and serves as the Executive and Artistic Director of Kit Modus, as well as Creative Director and Resident Choreographer of Covington Regional Ballet.