August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century.
Joseph Michael Manganiello is an American actor. His professional film career began when he played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. His breakout role came in the form of werewolf Alcide Herveaux on five seasons of the HBO series True Blood, for which he was voted "Favorite Pop-Culture Werewolf of All Time" in 2011 by the readers of Entertainment Weekly and one of Men's Health's "100 Fittest Men of All Time".
Douglas Donald Davidson is an American television actor. He has portrayed Paul Williams on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless since May 1978, making him the series' longest-serving cast member.
Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn is an English actress and writer.
Out of This Furnace is a historical novel and the best-known work of the American writer Thomas Bell. It was first published in 1941 by Little, Brown and Company.
Jitney is a play by August Wilson. The eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle", this play is set in a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in early autumn 1977. The play premiered on Broadway in 2017.
Sada Carolyn Thompson was an American stage, film, and television actress.
PPG Paints Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that serves as home to the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL), and was the home of the Pittsburgh Power of the Arena Football League (AFL) from 2011 to 2014.
Jean Gedeon is the artistic director of the Pittsburgh Youth Ballet. She founded the Pittsburgh Youth Ballet School in 1983, and established The Pittsburgh Youth Ballet Company (PYBC) in 1990. A former dance soloist with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, she studied with Frano Jelencic, Duncan Noble, Frederick Franklin, Nicolas Petrov, Leonide Massine, and Edward Caton. She taught for twenty-five years at Carnegie Institute, Carlow College, and Point Park College after a severe foot injury halted her career with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. She was featured in a two year running, weekly television series on PBS. She served as the children's ballet mistress during the Pittsburgh Opera Theatre's month-long tour of Germany and Switzerland as well as Pittsburgh Youth Ballet's two European tours through Austria, Italy and Germany, performing in the Tanzsommer Festivals. She appeared in and directed students in an award winning commercial for PNC Bank. Mrs. Gedeon has been recognized in Pittsburgh Magazine as an Artist to Watch receiving the Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award. She has been featured in the September 2000 Edition of Dance Magazine and the January and February 2001 Issues of Dance Teacher Magazine. The local NBC affiliate, WPXI, featured Mrs. Gedeon describing her teaching philosophy and the success of the school and the company on their "Talking Pittsburgh" radio show. Mrs. Gedeon has been awarded the 2003 "Best Artist/Teacher of the Year" award by the Chautauqua Institute and "Best Dance Teacher Award" from Dance Teacher Magazine. She brought the PYBC into national prominence as an "Honor Company" at Regional Dance America. She was awarded in Pittsburgh Magazine as an "Artist to Watch" receiving the Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award.
Kuntu Repertory Theatre was a primarily student-based, African-American repertory theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Gretchen Egolf is an American theater, film and television actress.
Kathleen Elizabeth George is an American professor and writer best known for her series of crime novels set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She teaches theatre arts at the University of Pittsburgh and fiction writing at the Chatham University Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.
PICT was founded in 1996 by Andrew S. Paul and Stephanie Riso in Pittsburgh. PICT has emerged as a significant contributor to the cultural fabric of Pittsburgh with almost 2,000 loyal season subscribers, and annual attendance of over 23,000. A constituent member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), PICT has garnered a yearly position on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's list of the city's Top 50 Cultural Forces. The organization's productions are consistently ranked among the year's best by the critics of the Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Pittsburgh City Paper. PICT was named Theatre of the Year-in both 2004 and 2006 by the critics of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Following the 2007 season, feature actor David Whalen was named the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's 24th theatrical Performer of the Year. As of October 15, 2014, PICT has produced 89 main stage shows, including five world premieres, seven U.S. premieres, thirty-eight Pittsburgh premieres and four festivals.
Andy San Dimas is an American pornographic actress.
Pittsburgh New Works Festival is an annual festival where participating Pittsburgh-area theatre companies each produce an original one-act play. Established in 1990 by Donna Rae, the Festival features four weeks of productions of new plays as well as two weeks of LabWorks. The Festival has taken place in numerous locations, originally having performances at City Theatre's Lester Hamburg Studio, Open Stage, the Father Ryan Arts Center in McKees Rocks, and currently Carnegie Stage in Carnegie.
Theatre in Pittsburgh has existed professionally since the early 1800s and has continued to expand, having emerged as an important cultural force in the city over the past several decades.
Charles V. "Charley" Feeney was an American sportswriter in New York, New York, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for more than 40 years.
Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh is a Pittsburgh-based theatre company that produces theatre from a Jewish perspective. Established in 2001 by Tito Braunstein, the company held productions in the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill until 2007, when it went dark. In 2011, the theater re-formed with a new board of directors and began producing plays at the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Shadyside. The theatre has produced established plays such as Israel Horovitz's Lebensraum, Arthur Miller's The Price, and Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo, as well as newer works such as Aaron Posner's The Chosen and Amy Hartman's Mazel and musicals such as That's Life and Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years.
Gab Cody is an American filmmaker and theatre artist. She wrote, produced and directed the feature film Progression, and her plays Fat Beckett, Crush the Infamous Thing, The Alchemists' Lab, Prussia:1866 and Inside Passage have premiered at theaters. She served as Lead Writer on the immersive theatre pieces STRATA, OjO and DODO, produced by the Bricolage Production Company.
The Humans is a one-act play written by Stephen Karam. The play opened on Broadway in 2016 after an engagement Off-Broadway in 2015. The Humans was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.
