As a child, Milena Straczynski grew up in a creative household where she used to hear her mother sing in operas and watch her father walk tightropes in the circus. She grew up wanting to become a performer and so she began her ballet training in Moscow, Russia, where she her parents were performing at the time. In 1995, she came to the states where she continued her study of the arts in Miami City Ballet and New World School of Arts. She currently blends her mastered art form with a flare of burlesque and cabaret, which led her to be a part of this wonderful and new production. She is happy to be on this new journey, in the garden.