MICHAEL BARAKIVA (Director) is an Armenian/Israeli-American theater director and writer who currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY and The Upstart Creatures in New York, NY.  His first novel, One Man Guy (Macmillan, FSG), was ranked the #1 Gay Young Adult novel on Goodreads in 2014. The stand-alone sequel, Hold My Hand, is due out in Summer, 2019. As a director, Mr. Barakiva has worked in New York and across the country developing new plays and staging classics. Off-Broadway credits include Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne (Primary Stages), White People by Neil Cuthbert and They Float Up by Jacquelyn Reingold (Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC). Regional credits include UP by Bridget Carpenter (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Burn This by Lanford Wilson (Shakespeare Santa Cruz) and The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher and Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward (all at Syracuse Stage). Mr. Barakiva is a recipient of the David Merrick Prize in Drama, a Drama League Summer Fellowship, a Granada Fellowship at UC Davis and the Phil Killian Fellowship in Directing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the Juilliard School, where he studied as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Directing. 

TONY FERRIERI (Scenic Designer) has designed nearly 550 productions and received many awards over his 39-year career, including New Works Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, “Designer of the Year” by Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s, “Frankel Award,” “Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement,” and “Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award,” features in Live Design and Stage Directions. Recent design credits include: Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating Mating and Marriage, Pump Boys and Dinettes, The Toxic Avenger, The 39 Steps – for Pittsburgh CLO; Mary Poppins, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Additional Scenery Designer/Scenic Coordinator), Shrek, The Phantom of the Opera, The Little Mermaid – for LPPAC; Feeding the Dragon for Primary Stages at The Cherry Lane Theatre in NY and for Hartford Stage in CT; Citizens Market, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Late Nite Catechism, Wild With Happy, Feeding the Dragon, Hand to God, Sex With Strangers – for City Theatre Company; Uncle Tom’s Cabin – for Point Park University; Miss Julie Clarissa and John, The Piano Lesson - for Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company; The Master Builder, Scared of Sarah – for Off The Wall; Tell it to the Marines - for The International Poetry Forum and You Say Tomato I Say Shut Up! - for Dana Phil Playhouse Productions. Other credits include designs for Bricolage, Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh, Carrnivale Theatrics, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, Emelin Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Madison Rep, TheatreWorks, 1812 Productions, Playhouse Conservatory, Tuesday Musical Club and Unseam’d Shakespeare Co.

TODD NONN (Lighting Designer) is a freelance designer / technician / artist from Pittsburgh. He designs lighting for many productions with Pittsburgh Musical Theater, Pittsburgh Opera, Robert Morris University, Attack Theatre, and Bodiography Contemporary Ballet. He also Is the Technical Director for Squonk Opera. Todd is also the principal designer at BOLD Design inc., his latest endeavor. Creating unique lighting, exciting custom sets, props, and other technical elements for productions and installations. He has worked on and designed shows in many places across the country including NYC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and countless other companies and venues. When not designing shows he is backstage making the show happen as a proud member of IATSE Local #3.

VALARIE WEBSTER (Costume Designer) is proud to make her CLO Cabaret debut. Her design credits include: An Act of God (Pittsburgh Public Theater); The Drowsy Chaperone (Northern Stage); La Didone, La Calisto, Giasone, La Finta Pazza (Yale Baroque Opera Project); Fall Scenes 2012, The Scarf/Dido &Aeneas (Yale Opera); Sylvia, Black Nativity (Long Wharf Theatre); Higgins In Harlem (Playhouse on Park); My Way, Fully Committed (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Histoire du Soldat (Arkansas Symphony Orchestra) and the feature films The Answer and Solas 9.