Caitlin Elizabeth Reilly (Understudy for Woman One and Two) was most recently seen on stage as an understudy in the CLO Cabaret production of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, which marked her 14th production with the CLO. She also appeared in the CLO's production of A Musical Christmas Carol for a fifth time in 2007. She is an alumna of the CLO Academy and CLO Mini-Star program. Her recent credits include Millie in Picnic, Marty in Grease!, Winnie in Annie Get Your Gun with Andrea McCardle and Lesly in The House of Yes.
David Grapes II (Director) is an award-winning director, actor and playwright who is currently the director of the School of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) and the Executive Producer for UNC's 75-year-old professional summer stock company - the Little Theatre of the Rockies. Prior to his arrival at UNC, he served for six years as the Producing Artistic Director of Tennessee Repertory Theatre in Nashville. During his 30-year career in the theater, Mr. Grapes has produced more than 800 major productions that span nearly every genre of dramatic literature, and his work as a director has been seen from coast to coast. Mr. Grapes' professional acting credits include leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Amadeus, The Miser, The School For Wives, A Christmas Carol, Art, The Cherry Orchard, Talley's Folly, The Merchant of Venice, The Importance of Being Ernest, A Man For All Seasons and The Drawer Boy. Born and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, he is a member of Actors' Equity Association, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Dramatist Guild of America and a graduate of the MFA Acting/Directing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the creator/co-author (with Todd Olson) of four musical revues that have been performed at more than 400 theaters worldwide, including My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, Christmas My Way: A Sinatra Holiday Bash, Moon River: Johnny Mercer's American Songbook, and I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett. He is also creator/co-author (with Robert Neblett) of Simply Simone - The Music of Nina Simone and the play Dracula: The Case of the Silver Scream, a new film noir adaptation of Bram Stocker's famous novel. During the summer of 2007, he premiered the new musical revue Babes in Hollywood - The Music of Garland and Rooney. Since 1999, Mr. Grapes has directed 15 different productions of My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra.
Deana Muro (Musical Director) is a CLO Cabaret veteran of seven productions since the theater's inception, including her most recent musical direction of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, which featured her 1,000th performance. Her acting credits include Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, Julie in A Perfect Wedding (Post-Gazette Best Supporting Actress list), Jan in Grease, Gilmer in Godspell and Maureen/Queenie/Dot in Honk!
Her additional music direction credits include Forever Plaid, Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Broadway: SVU, Always, Patsy Cline, Plaid Tidings, The Big Bang, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum., The Starmakers Gala, Marat Sade, Footloose, Working, My Name is Alice, And the World Goes Round, Dames at Sea, School House Rock Live!, Oliver, Annie, Jr., Once On This Island, A Chorus Line and Off the Record! She has music directed/accompanied for Pittsburgh CLO, Point Park University, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, City Theater, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre and The Theater Factory, and played keyboard for CLO's The Full Monty and Smokey Joe's Café. Ms. Muro debuted her own one-woman Cabaret, So Far... under the direction of Jack Allison at the CLO Cabaret and has served as musical director for several late night acts. She is a graduate of Point Park University.
Andrew David Ostrowski (Lighting Designer) most recently designed the world premiere of Long Story Short for City Theatre and the subsequent production for Theatre Works in Palo Alto, CA., I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at the CLO Cabaret, Anthony Rapp's one-man show Without You at City Theatre and Contact at North Shore Music Theatre. He also designed Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's summer season and the lighting for the CLO Cabaret productions of Shear Madness, Forever Plaid, the Forbidden Broadway Series, Always...Patsy Cline and Plaid Tidings. He has been the Associate Lighting Designer on 50 plus CLO shows including Carousel, Hello, Dolly!, Funny Girl, My Fair Lady and A Musical Christmas Carol. Mr. Ostrowski has designed for Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Pittsburgh Musical Theater and many others.
Andrea Shockling (Set Designer) has designed sets for the CLO Cabaret's Always...Patsy Cline and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Pittsburgh Public Theatre's The Crucible and Jewish Theater of Pittsburgh's Door to Door, among many others. She joined the CLO administrative staff full time as CLO Academy Education Programs Manager in the fall of 2008. She has been an instructor with City Theatre's Young Playwrights Program, and recently finished a two year stint at the Children's Museum creating professional development courses for visual and performing arts educators, in partnership with the Arts Education Collaborative. She is a consultant with Growing Theater Outreach, a mentorship program through the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University that brings educational theater experiences to middle school students in the region.
Sue O' Neill (Costume Designer) designs costumes for theater, dance and opera and is also a studio artist and a published children's book illustrator. She has been the resident costume designer/coordinator for Pittsburgh CLO's 2007 and 2008 Summer Seasons. My Way will be her debut at the CLO Cabaret. Her costume designs have been seen at the Mexico City Opera, Vancouver Opera, Miami Opera, the Lincoln Center OUTofDOORS Festival, the University of the Virgin Islands, Montreal Opera, New York City Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, in addition to being a part of a permanent rental collection in Toronto. Having designed for more than 25 years, she has also coordinated and built costumes for San Francisco Opera, The Seattle Opera and Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center, Santa Fe Opera, Yale Repertory Theater, Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera. Pittsburgh audiences may have also seen her design work with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre, Quantum Theater, The REP at Point Park, Attack Theatre and Dance Alloy, among others.
Michael Greer (Stage Manager) most recently performed in Pittsburgh CLO's 2008 production of A Musical Christmas Carol. His Favorite roles include The Full Monty (Keno) and A Musical Christmas Carol (Topper) with Pittsburgh CLO, West Side Story (Riff), Footloose (Willard), Beauty & the Beast (Gaston), & Fiddler on the Roof (Motel) with Pittsburgh Musical Theater, The Rocky Horror Show (Brad) with Stage Right! and Jesus Christ Superstar (Ensemble) with Kansas City Starlight Theatre.
