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Carol Bentley (Ensemble)Ms. Bentley's most recent credits include Spamalot at the Wynn. Broadway/ National tours include Wonderful Town, Swing! (original cast), Follies (Astaire Award nom), Beauty and the Beast, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, A Christmas Carol, Radio City. Films include "Dance With Me" and "Enchanted". Favorite regional: Carousel (Louise).
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Stephen Berger (Sam)Broadway: Little Me, Laughter on the 23rd. Floor, True West, The Dinner Party, Into the Woods and The Pajama Game. Off Broadway: Wonderful Town (NYC Opera); Being Audrey; A New Brain; That's Life; Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh; Isn't it Romantic and Nite Club Confidential. |
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Michael Busillo (Ensemble)Mr. Busillo is thrilled to be making his PCLO debut in Les Misérables and Copacabana! Off-Broadway: Joy, Henry & Mudge, David Grimm's Steve & Idi (Rattlestick), Williams' This Property is Condemned (EST). Favorite regional: Altar Boyz (Juan--D.C. Premiere); Les Misérables, High School Musical (North Shore Music Theatre); Joseph...Dreamcoat (Benjamin--National Tour with Jon Secada); Grease! (Sonny--North Carolina Theatre). Broadway Theatre Project alumn. B.F.A. in Acting from Rutgers University and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London.
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Stephen Carrasco (Ensemble)Mr. Carrasco is thrilled to make his PCLO debut! Broadway: White Christmas. Off-Broadway: Music in the Air (Encores!) Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed, Atlanta TOTS, Carousel Dinner Theater, Syracuse Stage, and the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. B.F.A. in Musical Theater from Syracuse University. Proud member of AEA. www.stephencarrasco.com
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Jameson Cooper (Ensemble)Mr. Cooper is excited to be making his PCLO debut. Favorite credits include The Producers, Les Misérables, High School Musical 2 (NSMT), Joseph… (West Virginia), A Little Night Music and Tommy. He is a native of the great Pacific Northwest and a graduate of the University of Michigan where he received his B.F.A in Musical Theatre and a minor in Environmental Studies.
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Robert Cuccioli (Rico)Is most proud to be returning to The CLO where he has performed in such classics as Guys & Dolls, The Sound of Music, Funny Girl, Pajama Game and Bells Are Ringing. Robert was at the Pittsburgh Playhouse earlier this year in A Moon To Dance By with Jane Alexander and Gareth Saxe. Broadway Credits include: Jekyll & Hyde (1997 Tony Award Nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Javert in Les Miserables (Broadway Debut). Off-Broadway: Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, Temporary Help, Enter The Guardsman, And The World Goes ‘Round (1991 Outer Critics Circle Award); Gigi, The Rothschilds. Tour: Jekyll & Hyde (Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award); Camelot w/ Richard Harris (U.S. and Canada). Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre of DC (Lorenzaccio; 2006 Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Hamlet); The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Amadeus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Antony & Cleopatra, Carnival, Enter The Guardsman); Paper Mill Playhouse (Oklahoma, Lend Me A Tenor, Jesus Christ Superstar, 1776); McCarter Theatre (Fiction, The School For Scandal); The Guthrie (Antony & Cleopatra); George Street Playhouse (The Seafarer). Television: Sliders, Baywatch, The Guiding Light. Film: Woody Allen’s Celebrity, and the independent film The Stranger. He is featured on the original cast recordings of Jekyll & Hyde (Atlantic), And The World Goes ‘Round (RCA Victor), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Ghostlight Records), and The New Picasso (Black Forest Productions).
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Kaitlyn Davidson (Ensemble)Ms. Davidson recently graduated from Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and is ecstatic to be returning to PCLO for her third season in Joseph, Les Miserables, Copacabana, and Into the Woods! You may have seen her in Mame (Gloria Upson), West Side Story (Velma), and Cats (Victoria/Silibub). She has also performed as Kristine in A Chorus Line at Music Theatre of Wichita and Rosemary in How To Succeed… at CCM.
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Mark Stuart Eckstein (Ensemble)Mr. Eckstein is the Founding Artistic Director of M. STUART DANCE THEATRE, a groundbreaking NYC dance company dedicated to fusing dynamic partnering with contemporary dance technique. Mark is a two-time winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Choreography (Swing!, The All Night Strut), and LA Ovation Award Nominee for Featured Actor in a Musical (Swing!). For more information, check out www.mstuartdancetheatre.com.
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Steffi Garrard (Ensemble)Ms. Garrard is returning for her third season at PCLO. Her previous shows here include Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Dorcas,) 42nd St, and West Side Story (Somewhere solo.) She just finished a run of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Alliance theatre. She graduated this year from Carnegie Mellon with a BFA in acting where you may have seen her in Into the Woods (Cinderella) and The London Cuckholds (Euginia.) |
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Michael Greer (Ensemble)Mr. Greer is thrilled to be returning to CLO this summer. Michael was last seen in Beauty & the Beast (Gaston) with Pittsburgh Musical Theater. Past credits with CLO include The Full Monty (Keno) & A Musical Christmas Carol (Topper). Favorite credits include West Side Story (Riff), Fiddler on the Roof (Motel), & Footloose (Willard) with Pittsburgh Musical Theater, Jesus Christ Superstar with Kansas City Starlight & The Rocky Horror Show (Brad) with Stage Right! Michael is a graduate of Point Park University, where he received his BFA in Musical Theatre. |
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Tracy Groth (Ensemble)Ms. Groth is thrilled to be returning for her third summer at the Pittsburgh CLO after recently moving to New York City. A native of Boerne, Texas, she is a graduate of Point Park University. Favorite CLO credits include West Side Story (Minnie), and Cats (Tantomile) among many others. |
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Tim Hartman (Brill, McManus)Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities, and the Encore production of Finian's Rainbow. Pittsburgh roles include Don Quixote in The Man of La Mancha, Daddy Warbucks in Annie, El Gallo in The Fantastics, and Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. Other favorites include Miles Gloriosus in …Forum, Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Falstaff in Henry IV parts one and two, C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands, and Mr.Fezziwig/The Ghost of Christmas present in 17 years of CLO's A Musical Christmas Carol. Tim has also appeared as Merlin in Camelot, Ziegfeld in Funny Girl with Anna Gasteyer, FDR in Annie, and 24 characters in the one man show The Cotton Patch Gospel. Film: Silence of the Lambs, The Piano Lesson, The Mothman Prophecies and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh with Sienna Miller. For the last 25 years, Tim has been writing and performing assembly programs for elementary school children all over the country. Tim is also an illustrator and award winning political cartoonist. www.timhartman.com
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Freddie Kimmel (Ensemble)Mr. Kimmel is thrilled to return to Pittsburgh! Other credits include, Cabaret (T.U.T.S) Barnum (Asolo Rep), Jr. Babcock in Mame (Pittsburgh CLO), Dick in Dames at Sea (FlatRock playhouse), Annie Get Your Gun, (National Tour), Miss Siagon (Carousel Diner theater) Chris, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Gateway Playhouse) Jimmy u/s, Chip in On The Town (Lucille Lortelle), Anything Goes (T.U.T.S.), and Full Monty (Westchester Bway). Proud cancer survivor! www.Freddiekimmel.com
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Stephanie Maloney (Ensemble)Ms. Maloney is thrilled to be back home in Pittsburgh this summer for her second season with the CLO. She trained at the CLO academy and will be a senior this fall at the University of Michigan. PCLO: Mame, Annie Get Your Gun. UMich: 42nd Street, Carousel, Ella Minnow Pea. |
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Amanda Paulson (Ensemble)Ms. Paulson happily returns to the Benedum Centre after assisting Barry Ivan on two past CLO productions. She was most recently seen as Celeste/Elaine in Sunday in the Park George, Zelda Zanders in Singing in the Rain and as Dorcas in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Favorite theatres include North Shore Music Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Ordway Centre, Village Theatre, Kansas City Starlight, Atlanta Theatre of the Stars.
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Elise Santora (Conchita)Ms. Santora recently appeared as Abuela on Broadway's In the Heights with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Other Broadway credits include Man of La Mancha starring Raul Julia; The Capeman by Paul Simon; Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Scott Ellis. She recreated the role of Morales in the Los Angeles resident company of A Chorus Line starring Bebe Neuwirth. She has toured the world as a background singer with such acts as David Bowie, and Julio Iglesias. Elise is a 2008 Ford Foundation grant recipient for her one woman show 'Women Dancing in The Dark', is a published poet and in addition to appearing in episodic television, voice-overs and commercials including Spanish network programming, she is a Teaching Artist for high school playwriting residencies sponsored by Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) and Theatre Development Fund (TDF).
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Chandra Lee Schwartz (Lola)Ms. Schwartz returns to Pittsburgh CLO as Lola in Barry Manilow’s Copacabana. She has performed on Broadway alongside Bernadette Peters in Gypsy and in Hairspray. She was last seen in Pittsburgh CLO’s production of Disney’s High School Musical. |
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Skye Scott (Ensemble)Mr. Scott is going into his senior year at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, where he was recently seen starring as Keith Haring in the new musical Radiant Baby. He is thrilled to be joining Pittsburgh CLO for the first time this summer! He has performed at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre in Chicago, West Virginia Public Theatre, as well as the Wagon Wheel Theatre. |
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Jason Sparks (Ensemble)Mr. Sparks is thrilled to return to Pittsburgh, his hometown, where he studied at Pittsburgh CLO Academy and was the 2006 choreography intern. Jason is a recent graduate of the B.F.A. Musical Theatre program at Penn State University. Regional: Grease (Kansas City Starlight) and Urinetown (Geva Theatre Centre). |
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Lauren Sprague (Ensemble)Ms. Sprague is ecstatic to make her PCLO debut! She is a senior Musical Theatre major at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she received a Cincinnati Acclaim Award for her performance in Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia). Other credits: CCM: How to Succeed…(Hedy LaRue), The Full Monty (Estelle); Jersey Productions: Grease (Sandy), The Fantasticks (Luisa) and Cincinnati Music Theatre: 42nd Street(Peggy Sawyer) for which she received a Cincinnati Entertainment Award. |
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Kathryn Lin Terza (Ensemble)Ms. Terza is grateful to be working with such wonderful people once more at PCLO! Her past CLO credits include West Side Story, Cats (Demeter), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Sarah), 42nd Street, Oklahoma!, White Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, and Grease. |
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Sally Wilfert (Gladys)Broadway: Assassins, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Disney’s King David. National Tour: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: The Lady in Penthouse B, Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, The Mistress Cycle, The Prince & The Pauper. Other NY: West Side Story Suite (NYCB Lincoln Center), South Pacific in Concert, Sondheim Tribute, Cole Porter’s Jubilee (all at Carnegie Hall). Original Cast Recordings: Make Me A Song, Assassins, King David, The Prince & the Pauper, A Christmas Survival Guide, Sondheim: A Tribute, South Pacific in Concert (both on PBS). Regional: Marry Me A Little, Spelling Bee, Make Me A Song (World Premiere), The Last Five Years, Elegies:A Song Cycle, Enchanted April, Joyful Noise, Amadeus, to name a few. Television: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Loving” “The Americans” for Comedy Central.
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Tony Yazbeck (Tony, Stephen)Tony just completed his run as Tulsa in Gypsy on Broadway. (Outer Critics Circle Nom.) He also recently starred as Gabey in On The Town at City Center Encores! Other Broadway Credits include Al in A Chorus Line, Never Gonna Dance, Oklahoma, and Gypsy with Tyne Daly. Off-Broadway credits include Charles in Fanny Hill and The Encores! productions of Pardon My English, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Apple Tree, and Gypsy. Tony has toured nationally with Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, and Doctor Dolittle. He has appeared on television in All My Children and As the World Turns and is presently in the feature documentary Every Little Step. Tony has trained at CCM and at Point Park University. |
