ZACHARY BEATTIE-BROWN (Sound Design) is thrilled to be collaborating and creating again with City Theatre. This production marks his 10th design with the company. A Pittsburgh native, he graduated from Point Park University (B.A., Design). He is currently on staff at Carnegie Mellon University and head rigger for the Petersen Events Center. Previous designs: Untitled: A New Play by Justin Timberlake, f*ck7thgrade, One Night In Miami, We Are Among Us, Pipeline, Citizens Market, A funny Thing…New York City, Wild With Happy, The Guard (City Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors, Parade, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Pitt Stages); Enter The Imaginarium (Bricolage); Parade, Assassins, Reefer Madness! (Pittsburgh Playhouse); Doubt, Private Lives (Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre); An Octoroon, Hamlet, & Rosencranzt & Guildenstern Are Dead (Wilma Theatre); Becoming Dr. Ruth, Dino, Around The World In 80 Days, Plaid Tidings, Ethel!; Assistant Designer: Aspects of Love and The Buddy Holly Story (Walnut Street Theatre). Sending love to Mary, Dennis, & Emilia.

TONY FERRIERI (Director of Production and Resident Scenic Designer) Awards and milestones include: 43 years with City Theatre, The Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Established Artist, New Works Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, “Designer of the Year” by Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Frankel Award,” “Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement,” “Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award,” features in Live Design and Stage Directions, and nearly 550 designs. Recent CTC designs include: Downstairs, The Santaland Diaries, One Night in Miami, The Roommate, Pipeline, and Citizens Market. Other recent designs include: Feeding the Dragon for Hartford Stage in CT and Primary Stages at The Cherry Lane in NYC; Clue, Miracle on 34th Street, Sweeney Todd, Big Fish, Mary Poppins, and The Little Mermaid for Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center; The Book of Merman, Double Threat Trio, Perfect Wedding, for CLO Cabaret; The Current War, King Lear, Violetta, The Master Builder, The Winter’s Tale for Quantum Theatre; True West, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, A Streetcar Named Desire for barebones; Scared of Sarah and A Feminine Ending for Off the Wall; 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 Rep, Tuesday Musical Club, and Unseam’d.

PATTI KELLY

Resident Production Stage Manager

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PKelly@citytheatrecompany.org 

PATTI KELLY (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to City Theatre for her 35th season! Having been with the company for over half of its lifetime, some of Patti’s favorite shows at City Theatre include Birthday Candles, The Real James Bond…Was Dominican, Native Gardens, POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, The Old Man and the Old Moon, The Royale, Hand to God, The 39 Steps, Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Molly Sweeney, The Baltimore Waltz, and Our Country’s Good. Other credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Hartford Stage; Hysteria for Pittsburgh Public Theater; Richard II, The Tempest, Othello, As You Like It, Horse of a Different Color, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth for Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival; and over 30 plays for the Carnegie Mellon Showcase of New Plays. Patti is a recipient of the Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

MICHAEL MONTGOMORY (Costume Designer) is a veteran costume designer of both opera and theatre. His design and construction work has been featured in productions by the Philadelphia Drama Guild, American Music Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company and The Coconut Grove Playhouse. In Pittsburgh, Michael has worked with the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Playhouse Repertory Theatre of Point Park University, Jewish Theater of Pittsburgh, and Civic Light Opera and more recently with PICT Classic Theater. Michael’s accomplishments in costume design were acknowledged by the Philadelphia Theater League and The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1994, when he was nominated for the prestigious Barrymore Award for Costume Design for Peoples Light and Theatre Company’s production of Sign of the Lizard. Michael’s design credits in opera include productions with Opera Delaware, Curtis Institute of Music Theatre, Pennsylvania Opera Theatre and Peabody Institute of Music. He served as resident costume designer with Temple Opera Theatre in Philadelphia for over 12 years. Michael’s work in opera earned him a career highlight in 1997, when he served as costumier for the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. More recently, Michael has served as production designer with University of Memphis School of Music, including productions of Hansel and Gretel and Idomeneo, and with Lawrence University as costume designer for The Beggar’s Opera. Michael currently serves as resident costume designer and costume shop manager for the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University.

ANDREW OSTROWSKI (Lighting Designer) Recent credits includes, La Boheme for Pittsburgh Opera, The Roommate, The Burdens, and We Are Among Us for City Theatre. National credits include The National High School Musical Theater Awards in NYC, The Asolo, Virginia Stage Company, Theater Works in Hartford CT., North Shore Music Theatre, George Street Playhouse, TheatreWorks Palo Alto CA., Penn’s Landing Playhouse, New York Theater Institute, Merrimack Repertory Company, The Arden Theatre Company, The Blumenthal Center inCharlotte NC, Spoleto Festival USA, Madison Opera, Dallas Summer Musicals, Theater of the Stars at the fabulous Fox Theater as well as others. Internationally his designs have appeared in France, Sweden, Scotland,and Ireland. From 1998- 2003 Andy was the lighting director for an international tour of the Gershwin opera “Porgy and Bess”. In 2002, he was given a national merit award from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Local credits include Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical, Pittsburgh Ballet, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, The REP, The Conservatory Company at the Playhouse, Lincoln Park, and others. His local designs total over 300 productions. Andy resides in Pittsburgh and is an adjunct instructor for Point Park University as well as a freelance Lighting Designer for hire. tfpld.com