 Among the new work created was "A Youngstown Nutcracker," which was set in the city's locale after The Civil War and incorporated historical figures and portrayed the focal Stahlbaum family as interfaith - Christian and Jewish.In 2014, Kmieć received the “Excellence in Choreography” Award at the "New York Musical Theater Festival" for his work in the new musical "The Mapmaker’s Opera".Staś Kmieć has danced with the Boston Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet; toured and performed on Broadway with both Rudolf Nureyev in "Don Quixote", and in Lee Theodore's American Dance Machine.