Creative Team
MARIA CHERNISKE (Choreographer) is so excited to be joining the amazing creative team as choreographer for “Peter Pan”. In addition to being a performer, Maria has taught dance to students of all ages for the past fifteen years and is a coach for competitive level gymnastics.
Maria was the assistant choreographer for Rob Thomas’ music video “I Trust You” and most recently co-choreographed for the Off-Broadway hit “La Cancion”. She travels internationally to teach acro/tumbling and dance. In 2012 she was selected to be a mentor for the program Creating Opportunities (www.creatingopps.com) developed by world-renowned choreographers Lisette Bustamante and Chonique Sneed.
Maria is a member of New York based dance companies Jamie J & Co and Humans Collective. She has worked with choreographers such as Lisette Bustamante, James Jackson Jr, Dana Foglia, Rhapsody James, Luam Keflezgy, Kelly Peters, Derek Mitchell and Tanisha Scott. Maria has performed at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall in an ad for Rocawear clothing, with super model Coco Rocha at NYC's Fashion's Night Out, on national television with Icona Pop and in a national commercial for the Wendy Williams show. She was also recently a principal in a commercial for Affinity Bank. In addition, Maria has done work for Nike and Adidas. She appeared in Music Videos with popular up and coming artists and performed live with artists Matt Hunter, Carey Nokey, and L Michelle.
Maria is dedicated to perfecting her art and the love of performance. She believes that dance is the universal language and enjoys getting to know others and helping people get to know her through dance.
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Maria holds a B.A. in Psychology and Masters in Reading Education from Sacred Heart University. She also holds a Connecticut Teaching Certificate and is certified through Fitness, Gymnastics and Acro federations (listed below).
Certifications:
AFAA Group Fitness Certified
bodyART Certified Instructor
Adult and Pediatric First Aid, CPR and AED certified
ACRO levels 1-6 through USA Gymnastics
USA Gymnastics Safety Certified - Artistic Gymnastics Coach
Website: www.MariaCherniskeDance.com
ELIZABETH S. CIPOLLINA (Costume Designer) has over twenty-five years of experience as a wig andmakeup artist and costume designer with companies such as Ivoryton Playhouse, Bridgeport Downtown Cabaret Theater, ARTFARM Shakespeare Company, HartfordStage,CT Rep, Goodspeed, Theaterworks, Connecticut Opera, Oddfellows Playhouseand Yale Opera. Film and media experience includes independent films, commercials,public service announcements and series such as “The Case Files of Dr. Henry Lee” onTru TV. Her work has also been screened at Sundance and Telluride film festivals. Sheis a graduate of Pennsylvania State University. Examples of her work can be viewed onher website
www.wigmubyecipollina.com

Meet The Team
Paul Bogaev
Music Director
Grammy award winning music producer: Film: Chicago, Dreamgirls, Across the Universe; Broadway: Aida, Spiderman, Tarzan, Bombay Dreams, Les Miz, Cats, Chess
Marty Marchitto
Director
Yale Repertory Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, Lake Erie Ballet, Opera North, Connecticut Musical Theatre, Illinois Repertory Theatre, Illinois Opera, Saybrook Stage Company, Barrow Civic Theatre, Academy Theatre, Opera North and professor at Manhattan College
Kristin Huffman
Producer, Artistic Director
Broadway: “Company”- Tony award winning; former Miss Ohio, runner-up Miss America, University of Hartford professor
SCOTT BRYCE (Producer, special effects producer) a graduate of Staples High School in Westport and currently a resident of Weston, has had an extensive acting career on stage, television and film. He has appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and in regional theatre.
On television, he was twice nominated for a Best Actor Daytime Emmy award for his work on As the World Turns. He starred with Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Beals in the Joel Schumacher directed series 2000 Malibu Road. He has guest starred in dozens of TV series including: ER, Reba, and Sex in the City. He has played supporting roles in films such as, Above Freezing, Ghost Dog, Lethal Weapon 3, and Up Close and Personal with Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Scott was also series regular Mike McQueen on WB’s Popular.
Recently he has guest starred on Law and Order SVU, Gossip Girl, 30 Rock, and Person of Interest, He recurred as Major Tom Foster on the Showtime hit “Homeland”, played sociopath CEO Frank Drexler on the mid season series, “Deception” for NBC, and just a few weeks ago he guest starred as Dr. Alex Gardner on “Blue Bloods” for CBS. He is producing the play “Small World” by Fred Stroppel in which he also stars as Walt Disney which will next be at The White Heron Theater in Nantucket this July.
Behind the camera, Bryce has produced and directed commercials for Addidas, Sign story, CBS Outer Net, and Best Buy.”. He has created and directed special effects for Master Foods and U.S. Surgical. Scott co- produced Frederick Douglass-From Slavery to Freedom, And produced and directed 2 films, ‘Elsiha Stockwell” and “Sybil Ludington” for the Young American Heroes series for Public Television. ( Optional: Kristen-I was in that one) He is a producer director at Palace Digital Studios in Norwalk creating brand integration entertainment comedies and he is a producer Director for Magic Dog Creative in Norwalk where he wrote, pitched, sold and produced commercials for the Ausinal Migraine Spray campaign that launched today.
MARK HOLLERAN (Special Effects Producer)