JANICE COPPOLA (Balsam, Clarinet) This marks Janice’s debut with Pittsburgh Public Theater. Although Janice began her clarinet studies in classical music (she holds bachelors and masters degrees in music performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music), her fluency in jazz led to an invitation to perform with the River City Brass Band as guest soloist for the entire 2005 season. Janice has also been the guest soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where she played Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet as 1st prizewinner of Marvin Hamlisch’s first Search for a Star competition. Janice was invited to return to Heinz Hall to play klezmer music with her former ensemble, The Hot Matzohs, at Pittsburgh Symphony’s 50th anniversary celebration of the creation of the state of Israel. Janice plays and composes klezmer tunes for KleZlectic, with which she will soon record her first CD of original compositions. Janice has also recorded classical music as a former member of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance City Winds.

EMILY DALY (Chana) is a New York City-based actress. Previous credits include As You Like It, Measure for Measure and The Recruiting Officer (American Players Theatre); Noises Off and Romeo and Juliet (Chautauqua Theatre Co.); Sense and Sensibility (Pacific Conservatory Theatre); Intimate Apparel, King Lear, Matt & Ben, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (University of California­­–Irvine, MFA); and Macbeth (The Great River Shakespeare Festival). 

MAURY GINSBERG (Lemml) is thrilled to be making his Pittsburgh Public Theater debut. His body of work includes Off-Broadway in Laugh It Up, Stare It Down (Cherry Lane Theatre), Disgraced (The Cincinnati Playhouse), as well as productions at The Old Globe, The Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, three seasons at The Williamstown Theater Festival, among many others. Favorites include The Cherry Orchard and Mother Courage with friend and collaborator Olympia Dukakis. He currently can be seen in the recurring role of Steven Benowitz in Marvel’s “Jessica Jones” and in the new FX series “What We Do in the Shadows.” Other credits: The Week Of, 5 Flights Up, the Sundance Film Festival winner Rocket Science, According to Greta, Big Miracle, My One and Only, The Girl in the Park, “Elementary,” “The Blacklist,” “Madam Secretary,” “Blue Bloods,” “House of Cards,” “The Good Wife,” “Damages,” among many others.

LAURIE KLATSCHER (Vera) appeared here earlier this season in Marya Sea Kaminski’s The Tempest, starring Tamara Tunie. Ms. Klatscher and Ms. Tunie then co-starred in The Roommate at City Theatre. Other City Theatre credits include: Tribes (co-production with Philadelphia Theatre Co.), and premieres of Precious Little (2011 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Performer of the Year), Compleat Female Stage Beauty, and Red Herring (directed by her husband, Gregory Lehane). Other premieres include Quantum: Inside Passage, Chickens in the Yard, Electric Baby, and Dogface (remounted Festival de Otono, Mardid). Playhouse REP: Endless Lawns and Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods. Recent TV: “Outsiders” (22 episodes) and the web series “[Blank] My Life.” Ms. Klatscher is currently writing a musical inspired by paleontologist Mary Anning; its first act was warmly received in an incubator presentation with Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh. Indecent is a much-needed opportunity to honor the memory of Jerry Rabinowitz, and the other beloved 10.

MEG PRYOR (Halina) is thrilled to be making her PPT debut. Recent Pittsburgh credits include: Reverend Mother in Nunsense the Megamusical, Killer Queen in Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s We Will Rock You, and Miss Abigail in Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating Mating and Marriage at CLO Cabaret. National Tours: Grease (Marty) and Damn Yankees (Gloria). NYC: Shelley in Closer Than You Think (World Premiere), Shylock in Merchant of Venice. Regional: Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Mrs. Parker in Bat Boy, Serraghina in Nine, and both Sheila and Judy in A Chorus Line. Improv: UCB NYC, Magnet Theater, and Arcade Comedy Theater (The High Scores). Meg is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and is currently an MFA candidate in Performance Pedagogy at Pitt. Graduated with Honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at CAP21 and the Classical Studio.

ROBERT TENDY (Avram) is a New York City-based actor whose previous credits include Henry IV, Part 1 and The Tempest (Shakespeare Orange County); Birthday Boy (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity); A Christmas Carol (Cider Mill Playhouse); Chess, Clybourne Park, King Lear, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Gruesome Playground Injuries (University of California–Irvine, MFA).

RICARDO VILA-ROGER (Monsieur Bouc & U/S Poirot) Ricardo Vila-Roger is a lecturer at Pitt and a proud member of AEA. Happy to be back at the Pittsburgh Public after appearing in Indecent (Mendel), Romeo & Juliet (Montague & Apothecary) and Tartuffe (Orgon). Other shows: Gloria (Loren), Nine (Guido), and Much Ado bout Nothing (Benedick).

ERIKKA WALSH (Nelly Friedman, Violin) is honored to make her Pittsburgh debut in Indecent. Broadway: Once (Original Broadway Cast). Select Off-Broadway: Once (New York Theatre Workshop), Red Roses, Green Gold (featuring the music of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter), Come Light My Cigarette, Urban Death. Select Regional: Ring of Fire (Capital Repertory Theatre); Jar the Floor (Arkansas Repertory Theater); Striking 12 (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Alice vs. Wonderland (American Repertory Theater); Romeo and Juliet, Pericles (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre). Film/TV: “The Deuce,” Rosie Rose, “Miss Teri” (co-creator). Founding member of the rock band Bonfire Falls. MFA: ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard University. www.erikkawalsh.com

SPIFF WIEGAND (Moriz Godowsky, Accordian) was born with two thumbs on his right hand. He plays more than 20 instruments and up to seven simultaneously as a one man band (videos online). Jimmy Fallon and Brad Pitt have lip-synced to his yodeling, and his accordion playing was featured on “John Oliver.” His children’s songs were commissioned by and performed at Carnegie Hall. Spiff was once a mark on TV’s “What Would You Do?” He did the right thing. National Tour: War Horse. New York: Red Roses, Green Gold (Minetta Lane), Enemy of the People (Barrow Group), New York Animals (Bedlam Theatre Company), Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional: Mark Twain’s River of Song (Milwaukee Rep), Indecent (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Woody Sez (People’s Light), Ring of Fire (Infinity), Cyrano de Bergerac (Fulton), Godspell (Walnut Street), The Buddy Holly Story (Little Theatre on the Square), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Goodspeed). 

ROBERT ZUKERMAN (Otto) is pleased to make his PPT debut. He’s done two dozen shows Off-Broadway at such theaters as The Atlantic, Classic Stage Company, The Pearl, and Theatre for a New Audience. His regional credits include Arena Stage (DC), Barrington Stage (MA), the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, Triad Stage (NC), the Provincetown Playhouse, Firehouse Theatre (VA), and Blackfriars Theatre (where he won a San Diego Critics Circle Award for playing Finkelbaum in The Puppetmaster of Lodz). He’s performed in radio (Shakespeare’s Coriolanus for WBAI-FM in NYC), television (“Renaissance Gardening” for Rhode Island PBS), and film (In Bed With Ulysses), toured for the USO (USAF bases in Greenland), narrated books for the Library of Congress, and served as Theatre Program Director for the New York State Council on the Arts. He holds a Ph.D. in theatre history and has written a half-dozen plays for children.