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Stanley Bahorek (Jack)Broadway: Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Nat’l Tour: Tom Sawyer in Big River, also at Ford’s Theatre. New York Theatre: See Rock City (Evan) at Transport Group, Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens (Billy), The Masked Zinfandel (Sam), Wood (Chad), Mo Rocca ‘Cross America at Birdland. World Premier of Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days, World Premiere of Henry Krieger and Bill Russell’s Up In The Air at The Kennedy Center, Happy Days (Ralph Malph) at Goodspeed Opera House, The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee in Boston and San Francisco (Critics Circle nomination), A Little Night Music (Henrik) at The Post Street Theatre and TheatreWorks (Dean Goodman Award), Music Theatre of Wichita, Pasadena Playhouse, DeafWest Theatre. TV: Law and Order: CI. 2009 Teaching Artist with Broadway In South Africa. Graduate of the University of Michigan– Drive Me Driver starring Brynn O’Malley. |
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Greggory Brandt (Rapunzel's Prince)Mr. Brandt is thrilled to be in one of his favorite musicals and to work with director, James Brennan, and this fabulous cast. He was recently in CLO’s production, Les Misérables. Gregg was in both the Broadway and National Touring productions of Les Misérables (Swing/Enjolras/Dance Captain), and last year he was in the cast of the Broadway musical, A Tale of Two Cities. Additional National Tours: Camelot (Lancelot) and Bells Are Ringing. Some favorite regional credits: Disney’s High School Musical (Coach Bolton), Beauty and the Beast (The Beast), The Secret Garden (Archibald), Carousel (Billy) and A Little Night Music (Mr. Lindquist). Gregg holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and is an active director and instructor throughout the region. www.greggorybrandt.com. |
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Stephen Carrasco (Steward)Mr. Carrasco is thrilled to make his Pittsburgh CLO 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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Jen Cody (Red Riding Hood)Ms. Cody was last seen at Pittsburgh CLO as Ado Annie in Oklahoma!. She is so excited to be back to have a chance to perfect her Pittsburgh-eese. On Broadway, Jen has been in Shrek the Musical, Pajama Game, Urinetown, Best Little Whorehouse (actor’s fund), Taboo, Seussical the musical, Beauty and the Beast, Grease, Cats. Off-Broadway audiences have seen her in Junie B Jones (Lortel theatre), The Wild Party (MTC), Henry and Mudge (Drama league nomination), Best Foot Forward (York) and No No Nanette (Encores!) She has played many of the theatres around the country and has earned a Kevin Kline award for “Minnie Fae” in Hello, Dolly! Her voice can be heard on 6 original cast recordings. Television: Law and Order, Rosie Live, Paul Reiser Project (pilot). Upcoming: Disney’s The Princess and the Frog animated feature film as Charlotte La Boeuf. |
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Kaitlyn Davidson (Rapunzel)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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Kevin Earley (Wolf/Cinderella's Prince)Mr. Earley is thrilled to perform at the Pittsburgh CLO. Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Les Misérables. National Tour: Les Misérables. World Premieres: Can ~ Can (Re-envisioned), Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and It Came From Beyond. LA Premiers: Side Show and The Ten Commandment. Awards: LA Drama Critic’s Circle Award (Rutledge, 1776), Joseph Jefferson Award (Balladeer in Assassins), B. Iden Payen Award (Curly, Oklahoma), Three Robby Awards and Four LA Ovation Award Nominations. Concerts: LA Philharmonic at The Hollywood Bowl and California Philharmonic at Disney Hall. Debut CD "Earley Standards" (accessible at iTunes). Coming in December: CD and PBS Special of A Tale of Two Cities. Proud to have studied at Webster Conservatory in St. Louis where he earned his B.F.A. and encountered his best friend and wife, the lovely and always supportive Julie Ann Emery. |
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Sara Jean Ford (Cinderella)Ms. Ford is excited to be making her PCLO debut. Sara has been seen as Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera on both Broadway and The National Touring Company. Off-Broadway, she has played Louisa in The Fantasticks- a Revival (Original Cast Recording). Favorite shows/roles include Wicked- Glinda/Nessarose cover, Candide- Cunegonde, Carousel- Carrie Pipperidge, and Little House on the Prairie- The Musical at the Guthrie Theatre where he originated the role of Nellie Oleson. Sara Just made her New York Cabaret debut at the Metropolitan Room where she performed her one-woman show, “Built Ford Tough”. Sara is happy to be back in Pittsburgh where she earned her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. AEA-Hurray! Sarajeanford.com
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Hunter Foster (Baker)Broadway: Leo Bloom in The Producers, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic nominations), Bobby Strong in Urinetown (Outer Critic nomination), Les Miserables, Grease, Footloose and King David. Off-Broadway: Happiness (Drama Desk Nomination), Frankenstein, Dust, Modern Orthodox, Urinetown (Lucie Lortel nomination). Regional: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Signature Theatre—Helen Hayes Nomination), The Government Inspector (Guthrie) Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center), Children of Eden (Papermill), Lend Me a Tenor (Cape Playhouse), Martin Guerre, (Guthrie). National Tours: Cats, Martin Guerre, The Producers. As a writer, wrote the books for the musicals, Summer of ’42, which opened Off-Broadway in 2001, Bonnie and Clyde: a Folktale at the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival, and most recently The Hollow, which premiered this summer at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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Steffi Garrard (Florinda)Ms. Garrard is returning for her third season at Pittsburgh CLO. 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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Tracy Groth (Snow White/Milky-White)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. Proud AEA member.
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Tim Hartman (Narrator/Mysterious Man)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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Betsy Lawrence (Jack's Mother)Ms. Lawrence is very excited to be making her Pittsburgh CLO debut as Jack’s Mother. Other musical credits include Jellylorum/Griddlebone in Cats, Hamburg Germany, Aunt Nettie in Carousel. Operatic credits include La Traviata with New York City Opera, Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Sophie in Werther with Pittsburgh Opera Young Arists program. Betsy has appeared in eleven PBS nationally televised “My Music” programs. She can be heard on national/local TV and radio ads for Highmark Bluecross Blueshield, Captain Morgans Rum, Dads Dog Food, Country Music Television. Betsy writes and performs assembly programs for Pennsylvania Gateway to the Arts. She is on the voice faculty of Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Beth Leavel (Witch)Ms. Leavel is delighted to be returning to Pittsburgh CLO in one of her favorite roles! Beth most recently starred in the world premiere musical Minsky's at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicolaw with music by Charles Strouse. She received the 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Los Angeles Drama Critics awards for her performance in the title role in the acclaimed musical The Drowsy Chaperone. Other Broadway roles include Frau Bleucher in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street, Tess in the original company of Crazy For You, Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War, and Ellie in Hal Prince's Showboat. Beth made her Broadway debut as Anytime Annie in the original production of 42nd Street. She was recently seen in New York City Center Encores! production of No No Nanette with Sandy Duncan and Rosie O’Donnell. Lots of Off-Broadway and regional including Miss Hannigan, The Countess in A Little Night Music, and Vera in Mame. Beth recently appeared in the final episode of the landmark series “ER” and can be seen in the new ABC series “The Unusuals.” MFA from UNC’G and a proud member of Actor's Equity. |
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Stephanie Maloney (Lucinda)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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Brynn O'Malley (Baker's Wife)Broadway: Hairspray (Amber Von Tussle), Wicked (Nessarose), Sunday In the Park with George (Celeste #1/Elaine), Beauty & the Beast (Belle u/s). Regional Highlights: Avenue Q (“Kate Monster/Lucy T. Slut”, Wynn Las Vegas); Oklahoma! and Meet Me In St. Louis (“Laurey” and “Esther” respectively, Paper Mill Playhouse); She Loves Me (“Amalia”, Arena Stage –Helen Hayes nomination); Arsenic and Old Lace (“Elaine”, Baltimore Centerstage); Meet Me In St. Louis (“Esther”, St. Louis MUNY) The Full Monty and All Shook Up (“Pam Lukowski” and “Miss Sandra” respectively, Music Theatre of Wichita). BFA University of Michigan. |
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Paul Palmer (Cinderella’s Father)Mr. Palmer returns to the Benedum Center for his 31st summer season and his 53rd CLO musical production since Guys and Dolls way back in 1975. As he takes his very first stroll Into the Woods, Mr. Palmer looks forward to working once again with talented Broadway veterans Jen Cody (Oklahoma – CLO/2007) and Tony Award winner Beth Leavel (The Pajama Game – CLO/2000). |
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Elise Santora (Granny/Giant/Cinderella's Mother)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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Lauren Sprague (Cinderella's Stepmother)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 (Sleeping Beauty, Milky-White)Ms. Terza is grateful to be working with such wonderful people once more at Pittsburgh CLO! 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. |




















