Maria Panoski

From early age Maria showed interest in the performing arts. “So you think you can dance” was one of her favorite shows.

She started ballet /dance school before age of 3 and her first stage performance was soon after turning 3. Continued classical ballet training at Kozlov Dance Academy under the supervision of Adriana Kozlov and Leonid Kozlov - former principal dancer of Bolshoi Theatre and New York City Ballet - where she participated in all annual performances and in “Nutcracker” ballet performance organized by her dance school. She is also enrolled in gymnastics class and shows great interest in rhythmic gymnastics which combines her dance and gymnastics experience.

Maria attended 2 years of pre-school, kindergarten and presently she is in 1st grade. She participated in all class performances as well. According to her teachers “she is excellent student, pleasure to work with and to
have in class”.
Following directions with strong sense of individuality are couple of her character strong suits. She is currently reading at grade 5 level.

To date Maria had appeared on “Billy on the street”, video commercial for the children’s book “I want to…” by Jill Criscuolo, “30 Rock” , an off Broadway theater show “Different Animals”, educational video “ Big Fun” and "spinblox" toy commercial.

While rehearsing for her first theatre performance in “Different Animals” director Bruce Ornstein pointed out that “she has a quality not of a good but GREAT actress”.