A Chicago native and the daughter of a dancer, Pattie began her professional career touring internationally with Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago. Her performance credits both in the USA and abroad includes Broadway musicals, films, and television. Her personal style is greatly influenced by her mentor Gus Giordano, former Hubbard Street artistic director Lou Conte, jazz master Matt Mattox, and her own elegant and powerful femininity. Pattie credits her extensive classical background to her training with ex-Royal Ballet soloists Richard Ellis and Christine DuBoulay. Currently, Obey makes her home in Amsterdam, The Netherlands but devotes a minimum of six months each year to teaching and choreographing in the United States. For the past four years she has been a guest artist at the University of Performing Arts in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Pattie has been on the faculty of numerous dance festivals in Germany, Austria, Finland and Mexico. She is a master teacher for both Dance Educators of America and Dance Masters of America. Pattie has taught for colleges, universities, dance companies and eminent dance studios in 33 states and 15 countries. She has choreographed works for La JAZDANZ, Ormao Dance Company, Spectrum Dance Theater, Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, Jazz Dance Theatre, The Playhouse Dance Company at Point Park College and Pori Dance Company in Pori, Finland. In 1992 she was the first woman to teach at the Jazz Dance World Congress and has been on the roster of master teachers ever since. She is also the recipient of the “2000 Jazz Dance World Congress Award” in recognition of her considerable contribution to the world of jazz dance.

Susan Quinn trained under the famous Gus Giordano, later becoming a faculty member, Principal Dancer with Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and later it's Associate Artistic Director. Susan owned a professional school and became founding co-director of First City Dance Theatre, the only jazz company funded by the state of Florida. Her choreography opened the 1st Jazz Dance World Congress in Chicago, her Oriental flavored jazz work, FANtasy, was televised by Japan's largest station, NHK Television. Invited to be the first jazz choreographer at the Festival Cours des Capucins in Luxembourg, Susan's choreography has seen at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. to the Amsterdam School of the Arts in Amsterdam, Holland. Her Spanish flavored Sabor A Mi was performed at the 1998 International Jazz Dance World Congress. Susan's work, Texas Canyon won a choreographer's award at the National Association of Regional Ballet and will be submitted to the dance archives, The Craft of Choreography. The adjudicator's from N.A.R.B. chose Texas Canyon to be performed at the 1998 International Ballet Festival in Jackson, Mississippi. In the summer of 2000, Susan was invited to teach master classes in jazz and lyrical dance techniques in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her award winning choreography, St. Teresa was performed at the prestigious "King's Theatre". A Master Teacher for D.M.A and D.E.A, she is the director of the Annual Arizona Jazz Dance Showcase, with guest artists like Joe Tremaine, Sherry Zunker-Dow, and Mia Michaels. Susan is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona/Tucson.