Sandra Carlino - Artistic Director

Sandra Carlino began her dance training at age 9 with the Norfolk Civic Ballet under the direction of Gene Hammett and Perry Brunson. Her eight years of study included five years of performing with the Company. Ms. Carlino has an extensive performing repertoire, including memorable roles in Paquita, Raymonda, Spring Waters, Graduation Ball, La Bayadere and Swan Lake as well as major classical and contemporary works. At age 17, she was offered a position with Joffrey II, where she studied for three years. Ms. Carlino has 25 years teaching experience for regional companies and festivals, as well as the Virginia Governor’s Magnet School, Virginia Ballet Theatre (formerly Norfolk Civic Ballet), Harrisburg Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School Summer Program, Baltimore School for the Arts and served as temporary Ballet Mistress for Cedar Lake Ensemble’s premiere touring season.

She began her association with Pennsylvania Regional Ballet (formerly Cumberland Dance Company) in 1989, becoming Ballet Mistress in 1991 and was named Artistic Director in 2000.

In addition to her work as Artistic Director, Carlino serves as a master teacher and rehearsal director throughout the country, as well as the Northeast Coordinator to the National Board of Regional Dance America, chair of the Ethics Committee RDA/NE, and has served as a panel member for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  Ms. Carlino was recently featured in Business Women's Magazine for her accomplishments.

Victoria Silva - School Director

Victoria Silva received her training at the Cumberland Dance Company (now Pennsylvania Regional Ballet), Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Boston Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, and as a scholarship student at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She has performed professionally with small companies in the New York area as well as with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Victoria attended and performed in the Carlisle Project Choreography Conference in Carlisle, PA, and toured Japan with a "Broadway Revue Show". She has been part of the faculty for the Astoria Dance Center, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Greater York Youth Ballet, Harrisburg Dance Conservatory, Steps on Broadway, and is currently school director and rehearsal coach at Pennsylvania Regional Ballet. She choreographed the ballet, Peter & the Wolf for the Harrisburg Symphony's Crayon Concert Series.  Victoria was shown as an emerging choreographer in the RDA / NE festivals in 2002, 2004, 2005.. Her ballet Encounters was performed on the Gala Night at the RDA/Northeast Festival in 2006. She was awarded the Monticello Award for her work Linear Momentum in 2005 and scholarships to attend the RDA Craft of Choreography Conferences 2004 and 2005 in Orem, Utah.  Her work has been sown in both the US and abroad.

Stephanie Jackson - Ballet Faculty/Rehearsal Director

Stephanie Jackson received her training at Pennsylvania Regional Ballet (formerly Cumberland Dance Company). Stephanie also trained at the Joffrey Ballet Trainee Program, Washington Ballet, University of the Arts, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the Carlisle Project. She has guest performed with the Allegheny Ballet Company and was a member of Harrisburg Ballet. She has performed various roles in Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Dracula, Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet. Formerly, Stephanie has been a  faculty member of Harrisburg Dance Conservatory and Greater York Youth Ballet served as rehearsal director for Virginia Regional Ballet.  She has been on the faculty of Pennsylvania Regional Ballet, where she is also the Rehearsal Director, and is a Manager at AKA Dance in Camp Hill.

Kelly Strange - Director of Tap and Jazz

Kelly Strange, a professional New York-based dancer and actress for 20 years, has credits ranging from musical theater to soap operas. A guest teacher and choreographer throughout Central Pennsylvania, including four semesters as an Adjunct Professor of Jazz Dance at Dickinson College, Kelly continues to study and audition in New York City.   She spent part of her 2006 summer as a substitute teacher of Theater Dance at world-renown Broadway Dance Center in New York. Aside from her work with Pennsylvania Regional Ballet (since 1992), Kelly has been the Artistic/Executive Director of Hershey School of Dance since 1996.

Danielle Smith - Modern Faculty

Danielle Alexis Smith, a native of Harrisburg, PA, is an alumna of the Pennsylvania Regional Ballet (formerly known as Cumberland Dance Company) under the tutelage of Sandra Carlino. She is honored to have received scholarships to study at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Juilliard Summer Intensive, Jacob's Pillow, Alvin Ailey, and American Dance Festival. Following a year of study and performance on scholarship at SUNY-Purchase College, Ms. Smith joined JoAnne Tucker's Avodah Dance Ensemble of New York. She also performed with Subtle Changes for Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors before joining Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) II in the fall of 2003. Under Director Shonna Hickman-Matlock, Ms. Smith originated leading roles in works by Hickman-Matlock and William McClellan, Jr, was a soloist in "In the Spirit Of' a joint performance by DCDC and DCDCII, and was selected by DCDC Artistic Director Kevin Ward for the premier cast of his "Etudes Book II." Ms. Smith has been on faculty at Jeraldyne's School of the Dance (the official school of DCDC), taught company classes for DCDCII, and facilitated community workshops and master classes throughout Central Pennsylvania and New York. She is the recipient of an Alpha Kappa Alpha Arts Award, several RDA/NE dancer scholarships, and the Monticello Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreography 2007 from Regional Dance America/Northeast. Danielle is currently on the modern faculty of PRB and performs at Sight & Sound Theatre in Lancaster, PA.

Nina Scheifflee - Children's Division Faculty

Nina Scheifflee began her dance training at the age of 6 in Buffalo, NY.  After moving to Central Pennsylvania in 1994, she continued her training with Pennsylvania Regional Ballet (formerly Cumberland Dance Company).  She has performed at Regional Dance America's Northeast Festivals and with Pennsylvania Regional Ballet in productions of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast and many others.  In addition, she received training from Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Allegheny Ballet Company.  Nina graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism.  In addition to her teaching position with PRB, Nina is a manager at AKA Dance in Camp Hill.

Beth Baker - Ballet Faculty

Beth Baker began her dance training at age 4 with The Wevodau Dance Center.  She attended Penn State and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in dance.  Beth has experience teaching all ages and levels, and continues to educate herself by studying and taking classes.  She has been a guest instructor and assistant for the Harrisburg Arts Council's "Fall Frolic" and "Capital Kickline" dance workshops, and she has taught classes for Harrisburg Dance Conservatory and CPYB.  In addition to teaching at PRB, she also currently teaches at The Wevodau Dance Center, where she teaches ballet, tap, jazz and modern, and choreographs for the "Encore Dance Company."

Adrienne Dellas Thornton - Ballet Faculty

A Master Teacher for nearly 40 years, Adrienne Dellas has trained and coached dancers all over the world.  As her reputation as a teacher grew she was asked in 1975 to go to South Korea to initiate the Ballet Department of the famed Little Angels Arts School.  She found the response to classical ballet unprecedented.  On the basis of her success, Ms. Dellas was able to establish the internationally acclaimed Universal Ballet Company in Seoul. Madame Dellas, as she is professionally known, came back to America to help create the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Academy in Washington, DC.  As the only American teacher on the esteemed Russian faculty, she trained an incredible cast of young dancers whose names now appear on the rosters of major ballet companies the world over.For seven years, Madame Dellas worked with the truly amazing Founder/Artistic Director Debbie Allen to open, develop and expand the exciting Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles, California.  Included in her expertise is choreographing for television programs, directing and teaching ballet intensives, judging major competitions and creating and conducting specialized teacher seminars.Now that their three children are grown, Adrienne Dellas and her husband Michael Thornton live in Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna Valley, where she is presently teaching, coaching and choreographing.

Megan Morill - Tap & Jazz Faculty

Megan Morill has been a dance instructor since she was 18 yrs of age.  She has taught in parts of Philly, Connecticut, and the Harrisburg area.  Her extensive training includes teaching as well as performing.  She has had the incredible opportunity to study with the best of the best:  Michael Flatley,  Henry le Tang, Debbie Dee, Brenda Buffalino, Savion Glover, and the late greats Harold Nicholas and Gregory Hines.  Megan attended the “PA Governor’s School of the Arts” at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA.  She has won National Champion awards for both Rising Star and Dance Olympus, including the overall title “Miss Dance Olympus”.  She had a wonderful experience performing in a casino show in Aruba for four months.  Following that, she toured in parts of the U.S. and Canada with “Sesame Street Live” for one year performing as “Zoe,” a character dancer.  In recent years, Megan loves to keep moving by teaching everything she knows to all ages in order to see them grow and move on to bigger and better things! 

Emily Replogle - Tap & Jazz Faculty

Regular Guest Faculty

Luis Fuente, Jeffrey Gribler, Bruce Thornton, Kristen Weiser, Kirsten Kaschock, Jonathan Phelps, John Magnus, Judy Rice, Heidi Robitshek, Joan Kilgore, April Wevodau