Lily Krisko (Sponsored by Ken Fredeen and Jane Silverman) was raised in Elizabethtown, PA, and began her formal ballet training at the age of 10. Growing up, she trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB) in Carlisle, PA, under the direction of Marcia Dale Weary. While at CPYB, she had the honor to perform roles such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Juliet in Alan Hineline’s Romeo & Juliet, and Lead Russian Girl in Balanchine’s Serenade. Krisko attended many summers at Miami City Ballet as well as Ballet Academy East, CPYB, and Philadelphia Ballet. She was then invited by Angel Corella to become a trainee with Philadelphia Ballet on full scholarship. While at Philadelphia Ballet, she performed Snow and Flowers in Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, 1st Regiment in Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes, and Swan Corps in Corella’s Swan Lake. With American Repertory Ballet, she has danced in Ethan Stiefel’s Delibes Duet, as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, in Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, as Changeling in Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite, as the Sylph in Ethan Stiefel’s Spirit of the Highlands following La Sylphide, and in George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux.