CHAD BENDER is ecstatic to be making his Pittsburgh Public Theater debut. Chad earned his BFA in Theater from Point Park University. As a student, he performed in multiple French-American movement theater collaborations helmed by Pittsburgh’s Mark Thompson at Le Festival de Théâtre de Kerhervy in Lorient, France. Locally, Chad has performed with The REP and St. Vincent Summer Theater. His previous work also includes performing at comedy festivals around the country as a co-founder of the sketch comedy group The Animal Club.

TONY BINGHAM (Stan) is very fortunate to be part of the cast of Sweat, especially during the current thriving and ever-expanding artistic community in Pittsburgh. In the 13 years Tony has worked here, he has been involved in hundreds of both cutting-edge and traditional theatrical and commercial endeavors, but was most recently seen in Chatterton at Quantum Theatre. Some favorite roles include: Gravedigger – Hamlet, Bulgakov – Collaborators, Martin – The Goat, Tony – Savage in Limbo, Presidente – Pantagleize, Roger – The Missionary Position, Michael – Heads, Proctor – The Crucible, Bernard – Boeing Boeing, Bill Sikes – Oliver Twist, Nat – Observe the Sons of Ulster, and Dad in The Bingham Family, to name a few. He has been in several national and regional commercials, a number of local indies, features and Pittsburgh-filmed TV shows, including “Mulligan,” which was created by cast-mate Patrick Cannon. Tony holds a BA from Point Park University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. 

DON DiGIULIO is thrilled to return to The Public having previously appeared in Camelot and As You Like It. Locally, Don has worked with City Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Bricolage, and Pittsburgh Playwrights among others and was last seen in Peribanez with Quantum Theatre. Don is the Artistic Director of No Name Players, with whom he has directed, designed or been featured in numerous productions, most recently as director of the original live-action stage sitcom, The Sisters Sorella, which played monthly at Arcade Comedy Theater throughout 2015.  

MITCHELL JARVIS is a 2002 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. Mitch is thrilled to make his Pittsburgh Public debut. Broadway: Rock of Ages (Lonny, original cast), Fiddler on the Roof. Other theater: The Three Penny Opera (Macheath, Helen Hayes award nom.), UnCivil (Ulysses S. Grant), Peter and the Starcatcher (’Stache), The Toxic Avenger (White Dude), The Rocky Horror Show (Frank), Sweeney Todd (Tobias), West Side Story (Tony), Bus Stop (Bo), The Full Monty (Jerry), Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas), The Secret Garden (Dickon), The Rainmaker (Jimmy). Commercial: Keith Stone in the Keystone Light ads a few years ago. Film: Opening Night, Fool’s Day, Resident Advisor, Happy Baby. Television: “Law & Order: SVU,” “Late Night with Conan O'Brien,” “Guiding Light,” Co-Creator of “it could be worse” (Hulu and Logo, www.itcouldbeworse.tv). @mitchjarvisNYC.

A 2019 Pittsburgh Post Gazette Performer of the Year, Dan has appeared in over 30 productions with The Public. He's played a variety of major roles with the region’s professional theatres, as well as theatres around the country. Dan is also a veteran of many film, TV, and voiceover productions, including playing Mr. McFeely opposite Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers in the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Upcoming: The Seagull for Quantum Theatre.

ANDREW MILLER is honored to be returning to Pittsburgh Public Theater after working on Othello in 2015. Other local credits include Matvey in Kinetic Theatre Company’s Three Days in the Country, Jekyll/Hyde in Prime Stage’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and numerous roles for Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks. He has performed in London and across the U.S. He studied theater at the University of Pittsburgh and classical acting at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

MAX ROSENAK is thrilled to be working with Pittsburgh Public Theater. Regional credits: Swimmers (Marin Theatre Company), Bad Jews (Magic Theatre), A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater), The Rivals (Huntington Theatre Company), The Miracle Worker (Olney Theatre Center) Orpheus Descending (Intiman Theatre Festival), Antony and Cleopatra and Twelfth Night (A Noise Within), The Drawer Boy (TheatreFirst), My Name Is Asher Lev (B Street Theatre). New York: 6969 (59E59 Theatre), Help Me to Make It (New Ohio Theatre), The James Wilde Project (InterArt Theatre). Film/TV: La Mission, The Last Summer, Laurence, Seducing Charlie Barker, “Tosh.0.” Max is directing a feature documentary about his brother: We Found David Rosenak. He has taught with A.C.T’s Young Conservatory, The Shakespeare Society, The 52nd Street Project, The Olney Theatre Summer Institute, Boston University Summer Theatre Institute, and A Noise Within. Max is a company member of The Williams Project and The Blank Space. Education: BFA, Boston University. MFA, American Conservatory Theater. www.maxrosenak.com. www.thewilliamsproject.org.

Helena Ruoti has performed more than a dozen leading roles at The Public. Favorites include Julie in The Royal Family, Regina in The Little Foxes, Ann Landers in The Lady with All the Answers. Awards include PPG Performer of the Year, Cultural Trust’s Creative Achievement Award, and an Allegheny County Council award for contribution to women in the arts.

DREW STONE returns to Pittsburgh Public Theater after debuting in this season’s Between Riverside and Crazy, directed by Pamela Berlin. New York credits include The Seagull and Vieux Carré (both productions directed by Austin Pendleton), The Chase (dir. Rochelle Oliver), Hedda Gabler (dir. Amy Wright), and Orson’s Shadow (dir. Lauren Reinhard). Regional work includes Alaska Rep, ACT Seattle, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. He also performed in a two-man show with George Takei at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Film work includes Martial Law with David Carradine and April in Blue (dir. Christian Hogarth). www.drew-stone.com.

CARLY STREET has appeared in more than 60 film, television, and theater productions across North America. Selected U.S. credits: Old Times, Clybourne Park, Brief Encounter (Broadway); The Nest (Denver Centre Theatre - premiere); Tovarich (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Geva Theatre); Dead Accounts (Cincinnati Playhouse - premiere). Selected Canadian credits: Breath of Kings, My Fair Lady, The Threepenny Opera (Stratford Festival of Canada); Venus in Fur, Intimate Apparel, The Taming of the Shrew (Canadian Stage Company); Company (Theatre 20); Educating Rita (Segal Centre); Oliver (Theatre Aquarius); The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish Productions); Fire (Theatre Calgary); How I Learned to Drive (Theatre & Company); The Wizard of OZ (The Grand Theatre); Cloud Nine (Theatrefront); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in the Rough); Three Sisters, Into the Woods (Atlantic Theatre Festival). She has also recurred on television’s “Backstage” and “Bitten.” Carly is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

JAMES NOONE Broadway: Sunset Boulevard (revival), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, A Time to Kill, A Bronx Tale (play), Come Back Little Sheba, Match, Urban Cowboy, A Class Act, Judgment at Nuremberg, Jekyll and Hyde, The Rainmaker, Night Must Fall, The Sunshine Boys, Getting and Spending, The Gin Game. Off-Broadway: The Persians, Three Tall Women, Fully Committed, Full Gallop, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Cowgirls, Ruthless!, Breaking Legs, Boys in the Band, The Woman in Black, and many others. Opera: Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera National de Bordeaux, Houston Grand, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Canadian Opera, Portland Opera. Television: “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill” (HBO), Sweeney Todd, Passion, Candide, Camelot, Company (shown in movie theaters). Awards: Drama Desk Award, American Theatre Wing Design Award, L.A. Ovation Award, two Helen Hayes Awards. Mr. Noone is head of Scenic Design, Boston University School of Theatre.

GABRIEL BERRY designs costumes for theater, opera, and dance. For Pittsburgh Public Theater she has designed the costumes for Othello, Our Town, As You Like It, Electra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Medea, Things of Dry Hours, and Man of La Mancha. Recent Credits include Stew and Heidi’s The Total Bent at the New York Public Theater and Taylor Mac’s Hir at Playwrights Horizons. Upcoming projects include Branden Jacob Jenkins’s Everybody at Signature Theater and The Gospel According to the Other Mary directed by Peter Sellars for Opera Bonn.

Pittsburgh Public Theater: Twelfth Night, The Fantasticks, Guys & Dolls, A Servant To Two Masters, Othello, My Fair Lady, L’Hotel, Noises Off, Candida, Born Yesterday, As You Like It, Electra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Goodspeed Opera House: Funny Thing....Forum. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Speaking in Tongues, God of Carnage, The Fantasticks. Off-Broadway: Closer Than Ever, Divine Sister, and The Tribute Artist (Charles Busch). Irish Rep: Bedbound, The Playboy of the Western World, The Importance of Being Earnest, Major Barbara. Drama Dept.: June Moon, Rude Entertainment. Manhattan Theatre Club: The Green Heart. Broadway: The Gin Game (Julie Harris/Charles Durning), The Sunshine Boys (Tony Randall/Jack Klugman), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Other theater credits include New York Philharmonic: Company (dir. Lonny Price), San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas: Thomashefsky’s A Flowering Tree (dir. Peter Sellars), Les Sylphides, Don Quixote, and Troy Games for Hungarian National Ballet at the Budapest Opera House. KirkBookman.com.

Is a lifelong Tolkien fan and is thrilled to be collaborating on The Hobbit. His 100+ sound designs at Pittsburgh Public Theater include the world premieres of Billy Strayhorn; Something to Live For, L’Hotel, The Chief, Harry’s Friendly Service, The Glorious Ones, and Paper Doll; original music for Marjorie Prime, A Doll’s House Part 2, Hamlet, Equus, and Circle Mirror Transformation; as well as designs for Sweat, The Diary of Anne Frank, Thurgood, Red, and Little Shop of Horrors. Other collaborations include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Reduced Shakespeare Co., Asolo Rep, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse, NBA Ballet in Tokyo, TheaterWorks Hartford, The Huntington, Long Wharf Theatre, and Dallas Theater Center.

Pat McCorkle, C.S.A. and Katja Zarolinski, C.S.A. Broadway: More than 50 productions including Amazing Grace, On the Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men. Off-Broadway: More than 60 original productions including Clever Little Lies, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Tribes, Our Town, Falling, Freud’s Last Session, Toxic Avenger, Almost Maine, Killer Joe, Driving Miss Daisy. Feature films: Senior Moment, Year by the Sea, Child of Grace, My Man is a Loser, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Tony and Tina's Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard With a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: “Twisted” (ABC Family), humans for “Sesame Street,” "Californication" (Emmy nomination), “Hack” (CBS),  “The Education of Max Bickford” (CBS), “Chappelle’s Show,” “Strangers With Candy,” “Barbershop” (Comedy Central), and series for Showtime, HBO, TMC.

RUTH E. KRAMER returns to Pittsburgh Public Theater for her 39th show. Guys & Dolls, My Fair Lady, 1776, The Royal Family, Amadeus, Cabaret, The Mikado, Man of La Mancha, You Can’t Take it With You, and Forum are among her favorite, previous productions. Other credits include Lost in Yonkers at Weston Playhouse; The Full Monty, Rock of Ages, and Chicago at Alpine Theatre Project (MT); Off-Broadway productions of Anne of Green Gables and Tovah: Out of Her Mind; multiple summer seasons at Maine State Music Theatre and Mountain Playhouse; and stints at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Theatre (FL), Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, New Jersey Shakespeare, Ogunquit Playhouse, Goodspeed-at-Chester, and the Great Lakes Theater Festival. Ms. Kramer lives in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, is an avid Geocacher, and proudly serves on the National Council of Actors’ Equity Association.

PHILL MADORE is delighted to return to Pittsburgh Public Theater for a third season. Previous credits include Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night, Between Riverside and Crazy and Guys & Dolls. Locally, Phill served as the resident stage manager for Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre for seven seasons where he worked on more than 75 productions, including the complete stage works of Samuel Beckett and J.M. Synge. Other area credits include 1984 at Bricolage and BUG at barebones productions. Regional work includes North Shore Music Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, New Rep, and Westport Country Playhouse. Phill is an alum of Point Park University and a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association for 12 years!