GLENN CASALE (Director) Broadway: Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby (Tony Award nomination Best Revival) which garnered two Emmy Awards. Off-Broadway: The Property Known as Garland and Dragapella at Studio 54 (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations for Best Production). International: For Media Lane Entertainment Hello, Dolly!, Stage Entertainment, Netherlands: Disney’s The Little Mermaid; Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Russia) The Wiz, National Tours: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney's The Little Mermaid, and Camelot with Lou Diamond Phillip and Rachel York; Los Angeles: Wrestlers starring Mark Harmon and George Clooney; Bingo! M, From the Top starring Carol Burnett. Los Angeles Ovation Award-winning Best Musical Anything Goes starring Rachel York, Brent Barrett, Sally Struthers, and Fred Willard. The Prisoner of Second Avenue with Jason Alexander; Television: ABC TV’s The Faculty starring Meredith Baxter and The Wayans Brothers.

GERRY McINTYRE (Choreographer) has widespread acclaim for his most recent choreographic credit: the Berkshire Theatre Group's production of Godspell. He was recently made Associate Artistic Director of the York Theatre. He made his directing debut at The York with the 2018 Musicals in Mufti presentation of Hallelujah Baby. Kinky Boots at The Hangar Theatre. Once on This Island at Martin Beck Theatre, Virginia Stage, Pioneer Theatre, Actors’ Theatre Of Louisville, La Mirada Theatre (Robby Award for Best Director, Ovation nomination for Best Choreography and Best Musical). As a Choreographer: Anything Can Happen In The Theatre and Forbidden Broadway The Next Generation. Side by Side, Tommy and My Fair Lady at the Berkshire Theatre Festival;  Laura Comstocks Bag Punching Dog (LA weekly nomination Best Choreography). As a performer, in the original company of Once On this Island, Anything Goes with Patti Lupone. And one of the three Americans cast in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond. www.gerrymcintyre.net

JAMES CUNNINGHAM (Music Director) has served as music director for the Pittsburgh CLO summer season since 2017. New York credits include Avenue Q (conductor), music director for Bunnicula (TheaterworksUSA and original cast recording), Hot Mess In Manhattan (Araca Project), and Happy Birthday (TACT) for which he also provided original music. National Tours credits as pianist and/or conductor include: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Monty Python's Spamalot, Evita and Cats. Other regional credits include productions for Arena Stage, Casa Mañana, North Carolina Theatre, Sharon Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Engeman Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, and The Muny. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and New York University.

ANDREW GIFFIN (Lighting Designer/Production Design) returns to CLO exactly twenty years after his career began as a summer intern in 2001, the same year receiving a Gene Kelly Award for Best Lighting Design for The Wiz at Chartiers Valley. He has since graduated from Penn State (which has honored him with an Alumni Achievement Award) and has served as Phish’s programmer and associate designer since 2009. He has designed the annual Rock Steelers Style fashion show since 2015, a decade of WPSU’s Music Theatre Spotlight, dozens of shows for Princess and Regent cruises, and stage lighting for the James Brown biopic Get on Up. Proud to present Pittsburgh theatre to a stadium audience, his work spans the Golden State Warriors, the New York Knicks and Rangers, Ariana Grande’s Honeymoon world tour, and Justin Bieber’s Believe world tour. He has also programmed concerts for Eric Church, Neil Young, and Pearl Jam, stages at Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, and South by Southwest, the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, and James Turrell’s Árbol de Luz in the Yucatán.

HALEY DEE TYNES (Costume Designer) coordinated the costumes for Pittsburgh CLO's  Thoroughly Modern Millie and Oklahoma! Currently, she works in New York as a wardrobe supervisor. Recent credits are: Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, Daddy and Curse of The Starving Class. She received her MFA in Costume Design and Technology at The University of Virginia.

JOE SPINOGATTI (Video Designer) is thrilled to help CLO celebrate their 75th Season with The Wizard of Oz and a Summer under the Stars. Previous work for the Pittsburgh CLO includes Once and Game On. Other Projection Designs include: A Few Good Men (Pittsburgh Public Theater) Soldier Songs and Maecenas XXXV (Pittsburgh Opera); The Hard Problem (Quantum Theatre); The Who’s Tommy (Pittsburgh Playhouse); Cop Out (The August Wilson Red Door Project - Portland, OR and tour); How Can the Caged Bard Sing (Miami University); An Octoroon, Holmes and Watson, The Christians (Kinetic Theatre); Mockingbird, In the Time of the Butterflies, Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1984, The Giver (Prime Stage Theatre); Nine, Big Fish, Avenue Q (Pitt Stages). He was a member of the video team for the Broadway Premiere of American Psycho and Boeing’s Centennial Projection Spectacular. JoeSpinogatti.com

NICOLE PAGANO (Wig/Hair Designer) This is Nicole’s 3rd production with Pittsburgh CLO. Additional CLO credits include Rock of Ages and A Musical Christmas Carol. Nicole has been Assistant to the Wig Master and Makeup Designer for The Pittsburgh Opera for over 15 years.  Additionally, Nicole has worked as Wig and Makeup Supervisor for several seasons at The McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.  Nicole has been the Assistant to the Wig Master and Makeup Designer for both Cincinnati Opera and Cincinnati Ballet. Nicole attended The Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she received her BFA in Theatrical Design and Production. She also attended South Hills Beauty Academy where she acquired her license in Esthetics.

TRAVIS KLINGLER (Makeup Designer/Hair and Makeup Supervisor) is excited to finally be returning to Pittsburgh CLO.  Some favorite CLO productions include Titanic, Grease, Peter Pan, Once, and A Musical Christmas Carol.  Travis’ theater credits include makeup designer for Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, hair and makeup designer for Front Porch Theatricals and Pittsburgh Public Theater where he was hair and makeup designer for their production of Indecent.  His work has been published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, Glamour Magazine and seen on the MTV Video Music Awards, HGTV and Netflix. Travis is a graduate of the Pittsburgh Beauty Academy and the Joe Blasco Makeup School in Orlando, Florida.  Member of IATSE Local 3. www.travismakeupart.com

MARTY SAVOLSKIS (Prop Coordinator/Designer)  is excited to be back with Pittsburgh CLO!!! He has been coordinating props with CLO since 2002. Memorable past productions include Mary Poppins, Newsies, In the Heights, Aida, Hairspray, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma!, Into the Woods, West Side Story and A Musical Christmal Carol.  Special thanks to his wonderfully supportive husband, Sam!

WILLIAM BERLONI (Animal Director and Trainer) 2011 Tony Honoree for Excellence in Theatre, 2017 Drama League’s Unique Contribution to the Theatre and 2014 Outer Critics Circle award for Special Achievement. 26 Broadway shows including The Ferryman, The Crucible, The Audience with Dame Helen Mirren, Bullets Over Broadway, Annie (original and all revivals), A Christmas Story The Musical and Legally Blonde. Mr. Berloni has trained animals for hundreds of Off-Broadway, regional theatre, tours, television and movies. Recent movies include The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman and Ben Is Back starring Julia Robert and Lucas Hedges. He provided the first live dog to play “Nana” in Peter Pan Live as well as “Toto” in The Wiz Live, both on NBC. Mr. Berloni is the Animal Director of the new musical Because Of Winn Dixie with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, which had a successful run at the Goodspeed Opera House summer 2019. Follow William Berloni Theatrical Animals, Inc. on Facebook and on twitter @BillBerloni. www.theatricalanimals.com.

JOSHUA TKACZUK (Assistant Lighting Designer/Associate Production Designer) is delighted to be making his debut with Pittsburgh CLO. A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he has spent many years designing and managing production for concert venues and large-scale outdoor events. He has worked as a Site Designer for music festivals such as Moonrise Festival in Baltimore, MD and Lost Lands Festival in Thornville, OH. In his most recent local endeavors, he served as the Production Designer & Theatrical Consultant for the newly renovated Roxian Theatre in McKees Rocks, PA, and formerly was the resident Production Consultant & Lighting Designer for Grey Area Productions and the Rex Theater.

HEATHER ANKLEY (Production Stage Manager) has been part of the theater arts in Pittsburgh for over 20 years. She’s had the opportunity to work in a variety of entertainment mediums: Musical Theater, Opera, Dance, Comedy and Rock 'n' Roll. Credits include: Pittsburgh CLO’s SPARK Festival, A Musical Christmas Carol, Game On, Titanic, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Brigadoon, Disney’s Newsies, Mamma Mia!, Scottsboro Boys, Wig Out!, Merchant of Venice, The Double-Threat Trio (World Premiere).

TIM BRADY (Assistant Stage Manager) has stage managed 15 seasons at the CLO Cabaret. As an actor, he has appeared in 11 productions of A Musical Christmas Carol and various Summer Season and CLO Cabaret productions with Pittsburgh CLO – most recently Xanadu. Other local theaters that Mr. Brady has performed with include The Pittsburgh Pops, Starlight Productions, The New Pittsburgh Jewish Theatre, Stage Right and The Theatre Factory. Mr. Brady was also the managing director of the Conley Inn Dinner Theater in Irwin for 17 years. Tim starred in the Jason Coll television pilot, “Munhall.”

KELLY HAYWOOD (Assistant Stage Manager) is ecstatic to be at Heinz Field with PCLO! Favorite past productions with PCLO include: In the Heights, Peter Pan, Mamma Mia, Million Dollar Quartet, Aida, Damn Yankees, South Pacific, Shrek, Monty Pythons Spamalot and 42nd Street.  PICT Classic Theater: Romeo and Juliet Kelly has also done several productions with the Pittsburgh Opera, Public and Ballet.

GEOFF JOSSELSON, CSA (Casting Director) is a New York-based casting director whose work includes productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway and major New York and regional theatre companies, including the Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Bay Street Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bucks County Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Denver Center, Marriott Theatre, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theatre, Round House Theatre, San Francisco Symphony and the York Theatre Company. He is responsible for casting the Broadway production of The Velocity of Autumn, starring Estelle Parsons and many other acclaimed New York productions, including Southern Comfort, Yank!, Enter Laughing, Pretty Filthy, John and Jen, Himself and Nora, Altar Boyz and Septimus and Clarissa. For more information, please visit geoffjosselson.com.

L. FRANK BAUM (Author) (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900. One of the most successful novels in American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz sold out instantly, became a cutlrual sensation, and sold over three million copies before entering the public domain in 1956. Baum wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works, including 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and 55 novels. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. Baum's writings remarkably anticipated innovations including television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high-risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

HAROLD ARLEN (Music and Lyrics) (1905-1986) wrote some of the greatest hits from the 30's and 40's, including the entire score to the classic movie The Wizard of Oz. Songs such as “Over the Rainbow,” “Get Happy” and “Stormy Weather,” are just some of the standards that live on today and have distinguished Harold Arlen as one of the Great American Composers of the 20th Century. During his career he wrote over 500 songs, including “Let’s Fall in Love,” “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and "I Love a Parade” (all with lyrics by Ted Koehler). His Broadway musicals include Bloomer Girl, St. Louis Woman and House of Flowers. Films include The Singing Kid (1936), Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) and The Petty Girl (1950). With Ira Gershwin he wrote the songs for 1954’s A Star is Born, starring Judy Garland. Arlen won an Academy Award for the song "Over the Rainbow," voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

E. Y. HARBURG (Music and Lyrics) One of America’s greatest lyricists for stage and screen, Yip Harburg (1896-1981) was the son of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants and attended CCNY. Also a book writer (usually with Fred Saidy), director, and poet, Harburg wrote lyrics for more than 550 songs, including “It’s Only A Paper Moon” (with Harold Arlen), “April in Paris” (with Vernon Duke) and “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?” (with Jay Gorney). His landmark musicals were Bloomer Girl (with Arlen) and Finian’s Rainbow. Yip was the final editor and wrote lyrics and continuity for the universally loved film The Wizard of Oz.

HERBERT STOTHART (Background Music) (1885-1949) was nominated for nine Oscars and won for Best Original Score for his work on the 1939 film of The Wizard of Oz. As a young man, he studied music in Europe and at the University of Wisconsin, where he also taught. He worked as a musical director for Arthur Hammerstein and later began writing music for the producer’s nephew, Oscar Hammerstein II, including some for the operetta Rose Marie. In 1929, he was signed to a contract by Louis B. Mayer; he spent the last 20 years of his life at MGM studios working on films, including Rose Marie, A Night at the Opera, Anna Karenina, David Copperfield, Madame Curie, Idiot’s Delight, Northwest Passage, Mrs. Miniver, Mutiny on the Bounty, National Velvet and What Every Woman Knows.