2024 Summer of Musicals
June - August 2024
Cultural District
Pittsburgh Playhouse (350 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222)
Touching and rollickingly funny, HERE YOU COME AGAIN is a musical celebration of the humor and wit of Dolly Parton. In this sweet two-person musical, Dolly Parton appears to a struggling NYC comedian quarantining in his parents' Texas attic after a break-up. Dolly uses her trademark charm to guide Kevin as he rediscovers hope in a trying time. They sing and swap stories—and while hand sanitizer may be scarce, laughter and rhinestones are not.
Featuring hits like “Jolene,” “9 to 5” and “Here You Come Again,” it’s a can’t miss for Dolly fans and theatregoers alike!
Written by Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre & Tricia Paoluccio
Featuring Songs Written or Recorded by Dolly Parton (And Others)
Directed by Gabriel Barre
HERE YOU COME AGAIN is presented by Pittsburgh CLO Kara Cabaret Series and produced in association with Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse.
TRICIA PAOLUCCIO (Dolly Parton) Born and raised on a beautiful almond farm in Modesto, CA, Tricia Paoluccio had dreams of following in the musical footsteps of her lifelong inspiration, Dolly Parton. Her NY Broadway credits include: Fiddler on the Roof, The Green Bird, and A View from the Bridge. A sampling of her varied Off-Bway credits include: Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida directed by Sir Peter Hall with Theatre for a New Audience and the comedy Debbie Does Dallas. Television includes a recurring role on the series Saint X (Hulu) premiering early 2023, Homeland, Bull, Chicago Med, The Affair, L&O, SVU, Blue Bloods and numerous others. Film includes the upcoming Portrait of a Young Man. Tricia @triciapaoluccio (IG) is also a visual artist who has elevated the art of pressed flowers into high design. Check out @domainoftheflowerings to learn more. And please follow @hereyoucomeagainmusical on Instagram to follow the journey of this show.
JAMISON STERN (Kevin) Take your phone out right now and follow Jamison on Insta, tiktok and twitter @Jamisonstern for all the fun BTS stuff! He currently stars as Paul on the Amazon TV series After Forever (6 Daytime Emmys including Best Digital Drama). Broadway/National Tours: By Jeeves (Bingo Little), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Palm Springs Who), Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour/Orin) and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere). Regional: Baker in Into the Woods (NC Theatre), Tracy Mills in Georgia McBride, Zaza in La Cage Aux Folles (Goodspeed Musicals and Pioneer Theatre), Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy (The Human Race Theatre Company), Frederic in Young Frankenstein (Fulton Theatre), Sweet Charity (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), [title of show] (Theatreworks), Chapter Two and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Theatre Aspen), She Loves Me (Rubicon Theatre Company) and Black Comedy, The Invention of Love, As Bees in Honey Drown, Flea In Her Ear and A Comedy of Errors (Alley Theatre). Film & TV: In addition to After Forever, he is Mr. Tweed in Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket (now available On Demand), My Bakery in Brooklyn, Day Zero, The Finger Lakes, Law & Order and The Entrepreneurs, STARZ Network series Hightown.
JULIA SMOLKA (Vocalist / Understudy Dolly Parton) is so excited to be returning to Pittsburgh CLO and to get back to her country roots with the songs of the legendary Dolly Parton! Other credits include Pump Boys & Dinettes (CLO Cabaret), Carousel: A Concert (Stage Right!), Nunsense (Pittsburgh Musical Theater), Carrie (Split Stage Productions). Graduate of Point Park Conservatory and holds a Masters in Teaching from Chatham University. Julia is a teacher of the arts as well as an independent singer/songwriter and front singer for an award winning event band based in Pittsburgh.
ZACH SUTTON (Vocalist / Understudy Kevin) is thrilled to return to Here You Come Again with this talented cast & crew. Currently based in Dallas, Texas. Favorite credits include: Shrek in Shrek, Roger in Grease! & Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph! (Casa Mañana), Disney's Beauty & The Beast (Ogunquit), Sweeney in Sweeney Todd (OCU). Tour Credits: Flashdance & Sister Act (National & International Tours). Proud OCU Alumni. When Zach is not on stage, he is doing all things real estate in this hot market. Follow along
@zachsutton on IG for more behind the scenes!
BRUCE VILANCH (Book Writer) is delighted to be back in Pittsburgh, a town he discovered in the early 1970’s with Bette Midler (“What’s a nice Jewish girl doing in the Syria Mosque?”) In addition to his decades-long collaboration with The Divine, Bruce has been awarded multiple Emmys, some of them for a couple of the 25 Oscar telecasts he has co-written. He was a Hollywood Square for six years, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. And, he toured America and played Broadway as Edna Turnblad, Baltimore housewife, in Hairspray. Among his non-Emmy winning TV shows was Dolly, a big Sunday night variety show in the 80s that just didn’t make it. Somehow he and she both survived. Here they come again.
GABRIEL BARRE he/him (Director/Choreographer
and Co-Author) is an internationally acclaimed director who directed Amazing Grace on Broadway. Gabe also recently directed a new version of Frank Wildhorn’s, Wonderland, which he is now a co-author of, at the Tuacahn Theatre in St. George, Utah. Off-Broadway credits include the original productions of The Wild Party (by Andrew Lippa), Summer of ’42, john & jen and Almost, Maine. National Tours include Amazing Grace, Pippin and Cinderella. Regional theater credits include A Sign of the Times at The Delaware Theatre Company, the original productions of Memphis, as well as revivals of Billy Elliot, Sweeney Todd, Finian’s Rainbow and many new musicals at Goodspeed Musicals in CT. Among the many countries he has directed productions in are: China (recent production Sound of the Silk Road), Mexico (Mexican premiere of Billy Elliot), Japan (Japanese co-ed premiere of The Scarlet Pimpernel), Korea (world premiere of the new musical, Tears of Heaven) Germany, and numerous shows in the Czech Republic (including, Carmen, Jesus Christ Superstar and the new Czech musical, Holmes, The Legend). As an actor, he has been nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical. Gabe is also busy preparing to direct the world premiere of the exciting new musical, Reunion, by Frank Wildhorn and Rinne Groff about the reunion of a fictitious band from the Laurel Canyon era.
EUGENE GWOZDZ (Music Director/Arranger/Orchestrator/Pianist) is from Fort Worth, Texas. Eugene is Music Director/Arranger for the American Dance Machine 21. Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator: Chita Rivera Dance Awards; the Jerome Robbins’ Broadway 30th Anniversary Concert at the Guggenheim; Our Guy, CY, with Tony Award winners Randy Graff, Cady Huffman, and Lillias White; The Jerome Robbins Awards honoring Chita Rivera, Harold Prince, and Stephen Sondheim. Broadway: The Full Monty, Oklahoma! Off-broadway: Spamilton. National tours: Sunset Boulevard, Swing. Music Director/Pianist for Anika Noni Rose, Donna McKechnie, Cady Huffman, Will Chase, Mandy Gonzalez, Major Attaway, Rachel York, Anthony Nunziata, and Nicole Vanessa Ortiz. He has worked with many Broadway stars including Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Chita Rivera, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renee Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, Tituss Burgess, Shirley Jones, Betty Buckley, Kelli O’Hara, Norm Lewis, Megan Hilty, Kristin Chenowith, Laura Benanti, Melissa Errico, Karen Ziemba, LaChanze…To name a few.
BRAD WILLCUTS he/him (Assistant Director/Choreographer) credits as a choreographer, movement director, fight director, director and assistant span Broadway, National Tours, International Theaters, Regional Theaters and the Metropolitan Opera. Broadway and National Tour: Amazing Grace (Assistant Fight and Military Movement Director), International: Legende Holmes (Holmes the Legend) at the Karlin Theater in Prague, Czechia (Dance, Movement and Fight Assistant), Met Opera: Porgy and Bess (Assistant Violence Director) among others. He just choreographed the World Premiere of The Fantasticks at Flint Repertory Theatre this summer. Brad is Associate Professor with Tenure of Musical Theatre and Choreography at Michigan State University where he also oversees the ĭmáGen new musical program.
ANNA LOUIZOS (Scenic Designer) A 3-time Tony Award nominee, set designs for Broadway include School of Rock (sets and costumes) In the Heights, Avenue Q, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Holiday Inn, Honeymoon in Vegas, Dames at Sea, It Shoulda Been You, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, High Fidelity, Curtains, The Performers, among others. She has designed productions across the US, internationally and off-Broadway including Roundabout, Second Stage, MTC, Public Theatre, Guthrie, Asolo Rep, Alliance, Papermill Playhouse, Goodspeed, TUTS, Alley among others. She has designed one of the largest international productions of West Side Story for Tokyo’s unique 360 Stage Around in 2019, a space in which the audience is completely surrounded by scenery, as well as a new world tour of West Side Story starting in 2022. Founder of Broadway Design Exchange, an online marketplace for theatrical treasures. BROADWAYDESIGNEXCHANGE.COM
ALYSSANDRA DOCHERTY she/her (Lighting Designer) is a Philadelphia-based lighting designer originally from Vernon, NJ. After graduating with honors and a BA in Theatre from DeSales University, she continued her training as an apprentice at Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut. She then spent five seasons as the Lighting Supervisor at Philadelphia Theatre Company. She has toured internationally with Koresh Dance Company and BalletX to stages in Belarus, Mexico, Bermuda, Serbia, and all across the USA. Recently, Aly’s work has been seen in Plaid Tidings (Delaware Theatre Company), The Garbologists (Philadelphia Theatre Company), and RENT (New Light Theatre). She has also designed for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Brian Sanders’ JUNK, Theatre Horizon, and Wolf Trap Opera, among others. Her designs have been recognized with Barrymore and Ostrander Award nominations in Philadelphia and Memphis respectively. www.alyssandradocherty.com
ISABELLA GILL-GOMEZ she/they (Assistant Lighting Designer) is a Latinx technician and designer based in Philadelphia. After receiving their B.A. in Theater from Temple University, they have collaborated with designers and companies in Philadelphia and New York. Recent projects include assisting on the world premier of Ballet Hispánico’s Doña Peron and the Wilma’s The Cherry Orchard. They are happy to be back at DTC—instead of working as an electrician, now a member of this incredible creative team. Thank you to Aly, the cast, crew, and design team. All my love to Vic, Will, and Alex.
BOBBY PEARCE (Costume Designer) Stage- Broadway’s Taboo (Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Children of Eden (Kennedy Center), Really Rosie (Bucks County), Ritual Cyclical (Lincoln Center), Summer Of Love (Ogunquit), Falling For Eve (York Theatre), The Marvelous Wonderettes (NYC, Albany, Cincinnati, Long Beach, San Jose, and Sacramento), Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Las Vegas), The Syringa Tree (New York/London), Red Dog Howls (El Portal/LA), L’incoronazione de Poppea (Wolf Trap Opera) and Chita Rivera’s Tour Chita & All That Jazz. Television: The Rosie O’donnell Show, Rosie Live, The Rosie Show and The Big Gay Sketch Show. Film: Let It Snow starring Bernadette Peters. He’s designed for Liza Minnelli, Gwen Verdon, Madeline Kahn, Elizabeth Ashley, Glenn Close, Marla Maples, and International Skating Champions - Maia and Alex Shibutani and Evan Bates (2014 Olympics). www.bobbypearce.com
MARK VALENZUELA (Sound Designer) is a freelance sound designer and audio engineer for the performing arts, based in Philadelphia since 2005. Regional theatre credits, in Philly and beyond, include: Theatre Exile, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Lantern Theatre Company, 11th Hour Theatre Company, Theatre Horizon, 1812 Productions, Delaware Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Act II Playhouse, Playmaker’s Reperatory Company (Chapel Hill, NC), Milwaukee Reperatory Theatre (Milwaukee WI), Vail Dance Festival (Vail, CO), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), University of the Arts, and Villanova, Temple, Drexel and Arcadia Universities. Mark grew up in Louisville, KY, and has a BA in English and Theatre from Georgetown University.
MICHAEL MISKO (Magic Consultant) With nearly 30 years of experience in magic and theatre, Michael is glad to put his two areas of expertise to good use. Chosen as the original magician to create the role of the “Magic Maker” in the World Premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s Magic to Do, under the direction of Gabriel Barre, Michael is happy to once again collaborate with Gabe on this world premiere production. Michael currently performs magic for large corporations and private functions, as well as on cruise ships. Other consulting and design credits: Godspell (dir. Gabriel Barre), Cabaret, Pippin, The Apple Tree, Shrek, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s Mary Poppins, The Pillowman. miskomagic.com
CHRIS ZACCARDI (Production Stage Manager)
Broadway: Hello Dolly, Noises Off, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Anarchist, One Man Two Guvnors, Hair, In The Heights, 9 to 5, Wicked, Lestat, All Shook Up. Off-Broadway: ¡Americano!, A Turtle on a Fence Post, Disenchanted, Recent Tragic Events. Regional Theaters (highlights): The Nutty Professor- Ogunquit Playhouse, Seussical - Theater Under The Stairs, Sign of the Times - Delaware Theater Company Hi, My Name is Ben, My Paris, Band Geeks & All Shook Up - Goodspeed Opera House. Also Long Wharf, Walt Disney World & others. Former US Marine and now the Head of the Stage Management program at Pace University. Much love to Niall and Monty.
CATHERINE KOLOS (Assistant Stage Manager) is a multi-disciplinary theater artist whose recent credits include Pittsburgh Public Theater (A Raisin in the Sun, A Christmas Story), Pittsburgh CLO (You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown), City Theatre, Quantum, Front Porch Theatricals, and Shakespeare in Litchfield Hills. Ms. Kolos is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and a passionate advocate for the mentorship of early career artists. Deepest thanks to Mr. Fleischer, Mason, Barre, Zaccardi and the whole team for this wonderful collaboration.
MARK FLEISCHER (Executive Producer, Pittsburgh CLO) serves as the artistic and administrative head of the Pittsburgh CLO, one of the nation’s largest producers of musical theatre. In addition to producing PCLO’s 6-show show Summer Series, Kara Cabaret Series and its annual production of A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS CAROL, Mark’s passion for developing new musicals led to the creation of PCLO’s SPARK Festival initiative to develop new small musicals – a program made possible from PCLO’s Next Generation Capital Campaign. Since its creation in 2017, the program has contributed to the development of more than 15 new musicals including the world premieres of UP AND AWAY by Kevin Hammonds and Kristin Bair, GAME ON by Marcus Stevens and David Dabbon, BEYOND THE MOON by Joe Domencic and Christina McCann, THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO by Adam Overett and AN UNTITLED NEW PLAY BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (co-production with Pittsburgh’s City Theatre). SPARK has also led to adapting and reducing existing Broadway shows so they can be produced with smaller casts (FIRST DATE, XANADU, and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS). Prior to joining PCLO, Mark was the Producing Artistic Director of Adirondack Theatre Festival from 2007 – 2014 where he was named Regions Best Artistic Director by Metroland in 2009 and Managing Artistic Director for Plano Repertory Theatre in suburban Dallas from 1993 – 2002. With a passion for new plays and musicals, he has directed readings, residencies and world premiere productions for theaters across the country. He is a Board Member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) chairing on the organization’s Educational Resources Committee and served on its New Musical Festival Committee. Mark is also a member of The Broadway League where he serves on Intra-Industry committee. He has served on grant review panels for both the New York and Texas State Council on the Arts. He has taught acting, theatre history and arts administration courses at SUNY Empire State College, Columbia College, and Collin College. Mark holds a BA in English Literature and Communication Arts from Austin College and an MFA in Directing from the Theatre School at DePaul University.
PITTSBURGH CLO has been a driving force behind the preservation, creation and promotion of musical theater since 1946. In addition to producing fresh new productions of Broadway classics, the not-for-profit’s mission is to develop new works and showcase emerging talent. CLO’s dedication to musical theater extends beyond its summer series at the Benedum Center to year-round programming at the Greer Cabaret Theater, and an annual production of A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS CAROL. Its extensive education efforts include the Pittsburgh CLO Academy of Musical Theater, an internship program, and in-school programs such as Gallery of Heroes and Creative Vision. Other ongoing initiatives include the Construction Center for the Arts and the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater. The organization also founded the National High School Musical Theatre Awards®, also known as the Jimmy Awards. PittsburghCLO.org.
THE PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE at Point Park University sits at the crossroads of education, art, and community. Uniquely positioned in Downtown Pittsburgh on the campus of Point Park University, the Playhouse is Point Park University’s learning laboratory where the arts and education coincide. We leverage the resources of the award-winning Pittsburgh Playhouse to engage and showcase the finest and most innovative regional, national, and international artists. Mindful of the many performing arts options in Pittsburgh, we distinguish ourselves by applying a contemporary lens to the work we produce and present. Ultimately we seek to become among the most vibrant, vital and relevant cultural institutions in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh Playhouse (350 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222)
Touching and rollickingly funny, HERE YOU COME AGAIN is a musical celebration of the humor and wit of Dolly Parton. In this sweet two-person musical, Dolly Parton appears to a struggling NYC comedian quarantining in his parents' Texas attic after a break-up. Dolly uses her trademark charm to guide Kevin as he rediscovers hope in a trying time. They sing and swap stories—and while hand sanitizer may be scarce, laughter and rhinestones are not.
Featuring hits like “Jolene,” “9 to 5” and “Here You Come Again,” it’s a can’t miss for Dolly fans and theatregoers alike!
Written by Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre & Tricia Paoluccio
Featuring Songs Written or Recorded by Dolly Parton (And Others)
Directed by Gabriel Barre
HERE YOU COME AGAIN is presented by Pittsburgh CLO Kara Cabaret Series and produced in association with Point Park University’s Pittsburgh Playhouse.
TRICIA PAOLUCCIO (Dolly Parton) Born and raised on a beautiful almond farm in Modesto, CA, Tricia Paoluccio had dreams of following in the musical footsteps of her lifelong inspiration, Dolly Parton. Her NY Broadway credits include: Fiddler on the Roof, The Green Bird, and A View from the Bridge. A sampling of her varied Off-Bway credits include: Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque, Cressida in Troilus and Cressida directed by Sir Peter Hall with Theatre for a New Audience and the comedy Debbie Does Dallas. Television includes a recurring role on the series Saint X (Hulu) premiering early 2023, Homeland, Bull, Chicago Med, The Affair, L&O, SVU, Blue Bloods and numerous others. Film includes the upcoming Portrait of a Young Man. Tricia @triciapaoluccio (IG) is also a visual artist who has elevated the art of pressed flowers into high design. Check out @domainoftheflowerings to learn more. And please follow @hereyoucomeagainmusical on Instagram to follow the journey of this show.
JAMISON STERN (Kevin) Take your phone out right now and follow Jamison on Insta, tiktok and twitter @Jamisonstern for all the fun BTS stuff! He currently stars as Paul on the Amazon TV series After Forever (6 Daytime Emmys including Best Digital Drama). Broadway/National Tours: By Jeeves (Bingo Little), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Palm Springs Who), Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour/Orin) and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere). Regional: Baker in Into the Woods (NC Theatre), Tracy Mills in Georgia McBride, Zaza in La Cage Aux Folles (Goodspeed Musicals and Pioneer Theatre), Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy (The Human Race Theatre Company), Frederic in Young Frankenstein (Fulton Theatre), Sweet Charity (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), [title of show] (Theatreworks), Chapter Two and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Theatre Aspen), She Loves Me (Rubicon Theatre Company) and Black Comedy, The Invention of Love, As Bees in Honey Drown, Flea In Her Ear and A Comedy of Errors (Alley Theatre). Film & TV: In addition to After Forever, he is Mr. Tweed in Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket (now available On Demand), My Bakery in Brooklyn, Day Zero, The Finger Lakes, Law & Order and The Entrepreneurs, STARZ Network series Hightown.
JULIA SMOLKA (Vocalist / Understudy Dolly Parton) is so excited to be returning to Pittsburgh CLO and to get back to her country roots with the songs of the legendary Dolly Parton! Other credits include Pump Boys & Dinettes (CLO Cabaret), Carousel: A Concert (Stage Right!), Nunsense (Pittsburgh Musical Theater), Carrie (Split Stage Productions). Graduate of Point Park Conservatory and holds a Masters in Teaching from Chatham University. Julia is a teacher of the arts as well as an independent singer/songwriter and front singer for an award winning event band based in Pittsburgh.
ZACH SUTTON (Vocalist / Understudy Kevin) is thrilled to return to Here You Come Again with this talented cast & crew. Currently based in Dallas, Texas. Favorite credits include: Shrek in Shrek, Roger in Grease! & Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph! (Casa Mañana), Disney's Beauty & The Beast (Ogunquit), Sweeney in Sweeney Todd (OCU). Tour Credits: Flashdance & Sister Act (National & International Tours). Proud OCU Alumni. When Zach is not on stage, he is doing all things real estate in this hot market. Follow along
@zachsutton on IG for more behind the scenes!
BRUCE VILANCH (Book Writer) is delighted to be back in Pittsburgh, a town he discovered in the early 1970’s with Bette Midler (“What’s a nice Jewish girl doing in the Syria Mosque?”) In addition to his decades-long collaboration with The Divine, Bruce has been awarded multiple Emmys, some of them for a couple of the 25 Oscar telecasts he has co-written. He was a Hollywood Square for six years, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. And, he toured America and played Broadway as Edna Turnblad, Baltimore housewife, in Hairspray. Among his non-Emmy winning TV shows was Dolly, a big Sunday night variety show in the 80s that just didn’t make it. Somehow he and she both survived. Here they come again.
GABRIEL BARRE he/him (Director/Choreographer
and Co-Author) is an internationally acclaimed director who directed Amazing Grace on Broadway. Gabe also recently directed a new version of Frank Wildhorn’s, Wonderland, which he is now a co-author of, at the Tuacahn Theatre in St. George, Utah. Off-Broadway credits include the original productions of The Wild Party (by Andrew Lippa), Summer of ’42, john & jen and Almost, Maine. National Tours include Amazing Grace, Pippin and Cinderella. Regional theater credits include A Sign of the Times at The Delaware Theatre Company, the original productions of Memphis, as well as revivals of Billy Elliot, Sweeney Todd, Finian’s Rainbow and many new musicals at Goodspeed Musicals in CT. Among the many countries he has directed productions in are: China (recent production Sound of the Silk Road), Mexico (Mexican premiere of Billy Elliot), Japan (Japanese co-ed premiere of The Scarlet Pimpernel), Korea (world premiere of the new musical, Tears of Heaven) Germany, and numerous shows in the Czech Republic (including, Carmen, Jesus Christ Superstar and the new Czech musical, Holmes, The Legend). As an actor, he has been nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical. Gabe is also busy preparing to direct the world premiere of the exciting new musical, Reunion, by Frank Wildhorn and Rinne Groff about the reunion of a fictitious band from the Laurel Canyon era.
EUGENE GWOZDZ (Music Director/Arranger/Orchestrator/Pianist) is from Fort Worth, Texas. Eugene is Music Director/Arranger for the American Dance Machine 21. Musical Director/Arranger/Orchestrator: Chita Rivera Dance Awards; the Jerome Robbins’ Broadway 30th Anniversary Concert at the Guggenheim; Our Guy, CY, with Tony Award winners Randy Graff, Cady Huffman, and Lillias White; The Jerome Robbins Awards honoring Chita Rivera, Harold Prince, and Stephen Sondheim. Broadway: The Full Monty, Oklahoma! Off-broadway: Spamilton. National tours: Sunset Boulevard, Swing. Music Director/Pianist for Anika Noni Rose, Donna McKechnie, Cady Huffman, Will Chase, Mandy Gonzalez, Major Attaway, Rachel York, Anthony Nunziata, and Nicole Vanessa Ortiz. He has worked with many Broadway stars including Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Chita Rivera, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renee Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, Tituss Burgess, Shirley Jones, Betty Buckley, Kelli O’Hara, Norm Lewis, Megan Hilty, Kristin Chenowith, Laura Benanti, Melissa Errico, Karen Ziemba, LaChanze…To name a few.
BRAD WILLCUTS he/him (Assistant Director/Choreographer) credits as a choreographer, movement director, fight director, director and assistant span Broadway, National Tours, International Theaters, Regional Theaters and the Metropolitan Opera. Broadway and National Tour: Amazing Grace (Assistant Fight and Military Movement Director), International: Legende Holmes (Holmes the Legend) at the Karlin Theater in Prague, Czechia (Dance, Movement and Fight Assistant), Met Opera: Porgy and Bess (Assistant Violence Director) among others. He just choreographed the World Premiere of The Fantasticks at Flint Repertory Theatre this summer. Brad is Associate Professor with Tenure of Musical Theatre and Choreography at Michigan State University where he also oversees the ĭmáGen new musical program.
ANNA LOUIZOS (Scenic Designer) A 3-time Tony Award nominee, set designs for Broadway include School of Rock (sets and costumes) In the Heights, Avenue Q, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Holiday Inn, Honeymoon in Vegas, Dames at Sea, It Shoulda Been You, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, High Fidelity, Curtains, The Performers, among others. She has designed productions across the US, internationally and off-Broadway including Roundabout, Second Stage, MTC, Public Theatre, Guthrie, Asolo Rep, Alliance, Papermill Playhouse, Goodspeed, TUTS, Alley among others. She has designed one of the largest international productions of West Side Story for Tokyo’s unique 360 Stage Around in 2019, a space in which the audience is completely surrounded by scenery, as well as a new world tour of West Side Story starting in 2022. Founder of Broadway Design Exchange, an online marketplace for theatrical treasures. BROADWAYDESIGNEXCHANGE.COM
ALYSSANDRA DOCHERTY she/her (Lighting Designer) is a Philadelphia-based lighting designer originally from Vernon, NJ. After graduating with honors and a BA in Theatre from DeSales University, she continued her training as an apprentice at Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut. She then spent five seasons as the Lighting Supervisor at Philadelphia Theatre Company. She has toured internationally with Koresh Dance Company and BalletX to stages in Belarus, Mexico, Bermuda, Serbia, and all across the USA. Recently, Aly’s work has been seen in Plaid Tidings (Delaware Theatre Company), The Garbologists (Philadelphia Theatre Company), and RENT (New Light Theatre). She has also designed for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Brian Sanders’ JUNK, Theatre Horizon, and Wolf Trap Opera, among others. Her designs have been recognized with Barrymore and Ostrander Award nominations in Philadelphia and Memphis respectively. www.alyssandradocherty.com
ISABELLA GILL-GOMEZ she/they (Assistant Lighting Designer) is a Latinx technician and designer based in Philadelphia. After receiving their B.A. in Theater from Temple University, they have collaborated with designers and companies in Philadelphia and New York. Recent projects include assisting on the world premier of Ballet Hispánico’s Doña Peron and the Wilma’s The Cherry Orchard. They are happy to be back at DTC—instead of working as an electrician, now a member of this incredible creative team. Thank you to Aly, the cast, crew, and design team. All my love to Vic, Will, and Alex.
BOBBY PEARCE (Costume Designer) Stage- Broadway’s Taboo (Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Children of Eden (Kennedy Center), Really Rosie (Bucks County), Ritual Cyclical (Lincoln Center), Summer Of Love (Ogunquit), Falling For Eve (York Theatre), The Marvelous Wonderettes (NYC, Albany, Cincinnati, Long Beach, San Jose, and Sacramento), Signed, Sealed, Delivered (Las Vegas), The Syringa Tree (New York/London), Red Dog Howls (El Portal/LA), L’incoronazione de Poppea (Wolf Trap Opera) and Chita Rivera’s Tour Chita & All That Jazz. Television: The Rosie O’donnell Show, Rosie Live, The Rosie Show and The Big Gay Sketch Show. Film: Let It Snow starring Bernadette Peters. He’s designed for Liza Minnelli, Gwen Verdon, Madeline Kahn, Elizabeth Ashley, Glenn Close, Marla Maples, and International Skating Champions - Maia and Alex Shibutani and Evan Bates (2014 Olympics). www.bobbypearce.com
MARK VALENZUELA (Sound Designer) is a freelance sound designer and audio engineer for the performing arts, based in Philadelphia since 2005. Regional theatre credits, in Philly and beyond, include: Theatre Exile, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Lantern Theatre Company, 11th Hour Theatre Company, Theatre Horizon, 1812 Productions, Delaware Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Act II Playhouse, Playmaker’s Reperatory Company (Chapel Hill, NC), Milwaukee Reperatory Theatre (Milwaukee WI), Vail Dance Festival (Vail, CO), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), University of the Arts, and Villanova, Temple, Drexel and Arcadia Universities. Mark grew up in Louisville, KY, and has a BA in English and Theatre from Georgetown University.
MICHAEL MISKO (Magic Consultant) With nearly 30 years of experience in magic and theatre, Michael is glad to put his two areas of expertise to good use. Chosen as the original magician to create the role of the “Magic Maker” in the World Premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s Magic to Do, under the direction of Gabriel Barre, Michael is happy to once again collaborate with Gabe on this world premiere production. Michael currently performs magic for large corporations and private functions, as well as on cruise ships. Other consulting and design credits: Godspell (dir. Gabriel Barre), Cabaret, Pippin, The Apple Tree, Shrek, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s Mary Poppins, The Pillowman. miskomagic.com
CHRIS ZACCARDI (Production Stage Manager)
Broadway: Hello Dolly, Noises Off, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Anarchist, One Man Two Guvnors, Hair, In The Heights, 9 to 5, Wicked, Lestat, All Shook Up. Off-Broadway: ¡Americano!, A Turtle on a Fence Post, Disenchanted, Recent Tragic Events. Regional Theaters (highlights): The Nutty Professor- Ogunquit Playhouse, Seussical - Theater Under The Stairs, Sign of the Times - Delaware Theater Company Hi, My Name is Ben, My Paris, Band Geeks & All Shook Up - Goodspeed Opera House. Also Long Wharf, Walt Disney World & others. Former US Marine and now the Head of the Stage Management program at Pace University. Much love to Niall and Monty.
CATHERINE KOLOS (Assistant Stage Manager) is a multi-disciplinary theater artist whose recent credits include Pittsburgh Public Theater (A Raisin in the Sun, A Christmas Story), Pittsburgh CLO (You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown), City Theatre, Quantum, Front Porch Theatricals, and Shakespeare in Litchfield Hills. Ms. Kolos is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and a passionate advocate for the mentorship of early career artists. Deepest thanks to Mr. Fleischer, Mason, Barre, Zaccardi and the whole team for this wonderful collaboration.
MARK FLEISCHER (Executive Producer, Pittsburgh CLO) serves as the artistic and administrative head of the Pittsburgh CLO, one of the nation’s largest producers of musical theatre. In addition to producing PCLO’s 6-show show Summer Series, Kara Cabaret Series and its annual production of A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS CAROL, Mark’s passion for developing new musicals led to the creation of PCLO’s SPARK Festival initiative to develop new small musicals – a program made possible from PCLO’s Next Generation Capital Campaign. Since its creation in 2017, the program has contributed to the development of more than 15 new musicals including the world premieres of UP AND AWAY by Kevin Hammonds and Kristin Bair, GAME ON by Marcus Stevens and David Dabbon, BEYOND THE MOON by Joe Domencic and Christina McCann, THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO by Adam Overett and AN UNTITLED NEW PLAY BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (co-production with Pittsburgh’s City Theatre). SPARK has also led to adapting and reducing existing Broadway shows so they can be produced with smaller casts (FIRST DATE, XANADU, and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS). Prior to joining PCLO, Mark was the Producing Artistic Director of Adirondack Theatre Festival from 2007 – 2014 where he was named Regions Best Artistic Director by Metroland in 2009 and Managing Artistic Director for Plano Repertory Theatre in suburban Dallas from 1993 – 2002. With a passion for new plays and musicals, he has directed readings, residencies and world premiere productions for theaters across the country. He is a Board Member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) chairing on the organization’s Educational Resources Committee and served on its New Musical Festival Committee. Mark is also a member of The Broadway League where he serves on Intra-Industry committee. He has served on grant review panels for both the New York and Texas State Council on the Arts. He has taught acting, theatre history and arts administration courses at SUNY Empire State College, Columbia College, and Collin College. Mark holds a BA in English Literature and Communication Arts from Austin College and an MFA in Directing from the Theatre School at DePaul University.
PITTSBURGH CLO has been a driving force behind the preservation, creation and promotion of musical theater since 1946. In addition to producing fresh new productions of Broadway classics, the not-for-profit’s mission is to develop new works and showcase emerging talent. CLO’s dedication to musical theater extends beyond its summer series at the Benedum Center to year-round programming at the Greer Cabaret Theater, and an annual production of A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS CAROL. Its extensive education efforts include the Pittsburgh CLO Academy of Musical Theater, an internship program, and in-school programs such as Gallery of Heroes and Creative Vision. Other ongoing initiatives include the Construction Center for the Arts and the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater. The organization also founded the National High School Musical Theatre Awards®, also known as the Jimmy Awards. PittsburghCLO.org.
THE PITTSBURGH PLAYHOUSE at Point Park University sits at the crossroads of education, art, and community. Uniquely positioned in Downtown Pittsburgh on the campus of Point Park University, the Playhouse is Point Park University’s learning laboratory where the arts and education coincide. We leverage the resources of the award-winning Pittsburgh Playhouse to engage and showcase the finest and most innovative regional, national, and international artists. Mindful of the many performing arts options in Pittsburgh, we distinguish ourselves by applying a contemporary lens to the work we produce and present. Ultimately we seek to become among the most vibrant, vital and relevant cultural institutions in Pittsburgh.