MARYA SEA KAMINSKI (Director) is honored to co-lead Pittsburgh Public Theater. She came to Pittsburgh after four years as the Associate Artistic Director at Seattle Repertory Theatre. One of the highlights of her tenure there was spearheading a collaboration with New York’s Public Theater and Dallas Theatre Center to create Public Works Seattle. This initiative was based on long-term, authentic partnerships between regional theaters and local non-profits and designed to make theater of, by, and for the people. Earlier in her career, Marya co-founded the Washington Ensemble Theatre and served as Co-Artistic Director there for five years, leading season planning and new play development. She has worked as a director, writer, producer and actor and is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actors’ Equity Association, and the Society of Authors and Dramatic Composers. Marya has taught and lectured on Theater at Hollins University, the University of Washington, and at Cornish College of the Arts, where she was awarded the Drama Department’s Award for Teaching Excellence. She has also been honored with the Genius Award in Theater from the Seattle newsweekly, The Stranger, and has been recognized as an Artist of the Year by Seattle Magazine. Marya holds a BA in English and Theatre Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the University of Washington’s School of Drama.

Gustavo Zajac is an international Director and Choreographer. On Broadway, he worked as Associate Choreographer for Fiddler on the Roof starring Alfred Molina, for Nine (Best Revival Tony Award) starring Antonio Banderas and Chita Rivera, and for Wise Guys starring Nathan Lane. In New York, he associate directed and choreographed The Pirates of Penzance at City Center and choreographed the opera Carmen for Mastervoices at Lincoln Center. In Pittsburgh, he directed and choreographed The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk for Quantum Theater and Fiddler on the Roof for CLO and PSO at Heinz Hall.

Pittsburgh Public Theater debut. Selected music direction credits include Miss You Like Hell, As You Like It (Taub/Woolery), Falsettos, Songs for a New World, and world premieres of Show Way and Dragon King’s Daughter at The Kennedy Center, among many others. She is also a prolific Baltimore-based coach, accompanist, collaborator, and voice teacher.

Sasha Jin Schwartz is a theater scenic designer and artist inspired by family and how spaces tell stories. Selected designs: Dragon Lady (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Birthday Candles (City Theatre), The Hobbit (Arden Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Virginia Theatre Festival). PQ Exhibited Designer, TCG Rising Leader of Color. BFA CMU Drama. 

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Previous designs at Pittsburgh Public Theater: The Coffin Maker and the annual production of A Christmas Story: The Play. Venise is the Costume Shop Head at Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Previous designs for Pittsburgh Public Theater include Little Shop of Horrors, Marjorie Prime. Additional regional credits include: Indecent, The Great Moment, Tiny Beautiful Things, The Odyssey - Public Works (Seattle Rep); In the Heights (Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep); Bulrusher, Native Gardens, Hir (Intiman Theatre); The Year of Magical Thinking, Romeo and Juliet, The Wolves (ACT); Urinetown, Little Shop of Horrors (ACT/The 5th Avenue Theatre); The Pajama Game, How to Succeed in Business…, Jasper in Deadland (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Spelling Bee, String, Trails, Afterwords (Village Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (Tantrum Theatre); Full Gallop (The Old Globe); In the Heights, Seven Spirits on the Sun (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Robert is the Lighting Director of Seattle Rep. robertjaguilar.com @fake_robert

Claudia Jenkins Martinez is a Sound Designer based in Dallas, Texas. Claudia is thrilled to be back in Pitt, recent Pittsburgh Public Theater work includes The Tell-Tale Heart and Steel Magnolias. Much love to Austin and Georgia. @claud_jenkinsmartinez

Kathy Lynne Mathews is a native of Pittsburgh PA, where she has been a hairstylist for nearly 30 years. Kathy is a member of IATSE Local 3 and has had many opportunities to work on various plays and musicals. The Importance of Being Earnest is particularly special because it is her first opportunity to be a Hair Designer for a production. The entire experience has been extremely rewarding.

José Pérez IV is the Resident Fight & Intimacy Director of Pittsburgh Public Theater. Select credits at The Public: The Hobbit, The Coffin Maker. Regional credits: POTUS (City Theatre), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Quantum Theatre), Dracula: a feminist revenge fantasy (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Cleveland Play House).

Stina is thrilled to be returning to The Public, and honored to be working on her fifth Public Works production! Stina is based in Seattle, where she is the Production Stage Manager at Seattle Rep. Previous Public Works porductions include The Odyssey, As You Like It, A Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.

Has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2004 and has stage managed professionally for over 20 years. She began her career in Pittsburgh, PA and has had the opportunity to work in Omaha, San Diego, Washington D.C., Baltimore and Florida. Select AEA stage management credits include working with Florida Rep, The Public, City Theatre Company, Bricolage, barebones, The REP, Philips Hamilton Tour, and more!

Select regional credits include King James (Cleveland Play House), Somewhere Over the Border (People’s Light), Fat Ham (TheatreSquared), Frida… A Self Portrait, Young Americans, Two Trains Running, and Schoolgirls…(Pittsburgh Public Theatre), POTUS, Native Gardens, The Garbologists, What the Constitution…, Cambodian Rock Band, The Burdens, Where…Bus?, The Absolute Brightness…, Wild With Happy, Feeding the Dragon, Smart Blonde, and Sam Bendrix…Bon Soir (City Theatre Company)

Gabriella Walko is a multidisciplinary theatre artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. Select credits: Trouble in Mind, A Christmas Story, The Hobbit (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Shake it Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret, Flight of the Monarch, Georgiana & Kitty…Pemberley (Shakespeare & Company); A…My Name is Still Alice, Falsettos, Grand Hotel (Front Porch Theatricals).