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After 25 years with New York City Ballet, more than 20 as a Principal Dancer, Megan Fairchild gives her farewell performance with the Company on May 24, 2026. During her NYCB career, Fairchild has performed leading roles in a vast range of works by NYCB’s co-founding choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, as well as ballets by Sidra Bell, August Bournonville, Eliot Feld, Robert La Fosse, Edwaard Liang, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Angelin Preljocaj, Alexei Ratmansky, Susan Stroman, and Christopher Wheeldon.
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fairchild began her dance training at the age of 4 at Dance Concepts in Sandy, Utah, continuing her studies at Ballet West Conservatory. She entered the School of American Ballet (SAB) in 2000, and in 2001 she became an apprentice. She joined the Company’s corps de ballet in 2002, was promoted to Soloist in 2004, and to Principal Dancer in 2005.
In 2014 she made her Broadway debut performing the role of Ivy Smith, AKA Miss Turnstiles, in the Tony Award-nominated revival of On the Town. In 2011 Fairchild danced the role of the Sugarplum Fairy in PBS’ Live From Lincoln Center telecast of NYCB’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. She is currently a faculty member at SAB, where she was a recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award in 2001.