J.T. ARBOGAST* (Phaeton and others) is thrilled to be returning to Pittsburgh and joining PPT for Metamorphoses. He was last seen in Pittsburgh back in 2000 as part of City Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival. A New York-based actor, Mr. Arbogast was most recently seen in the New York premiere of Love Jerry at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, for which he received an award for Outstanding Performance (Talkin' Broadway Summer Festival Citation). Other favorite credits include Cycle (FringeNYC), Indoor/Outdoor (Portland Stage), and The Spitfire Grill (Wayside Theatre). His film and TV credits include "30 Rock," "Puppy Love" (webseries), and the upcoming feature When In Rome. Mr. Arbogast holds a BA from Penn State University and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. 
CRAIG BALDWIN* (Orpheus and others) is happy to return to Pittsburgh Public after playing the clones in last season's A Number. Mr. Baldwin is an associate artist at Classic Stage Company in New York, where he appeared in The Tempest (with Mandy Patinkin), Richard III, and Richard II. Other New York appearances include Twelfth Night (with Jimmy Smits and Oliver Platt) for NYSF/Public Theater in Central Park; The Field for Irish Repertory Theatre; Murder by Poe and Richard III for The Acting Company (and national tour); 'Tis Pity She's a Whore for Friendly Fire; and The Passion of George W. Bush for FringeNYC and Joe's Pub. Regionally, he has performed with Shakespeare & Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and many more. On screen, Mr. Baldwin played the title role in Charles Gilpatrick: Front Desk Clerk for the Chrysler Film Festival, and has appeared on "As the World Turns." He is also the narrator of the audiobook A Fraction of the Whole. Mr. Baldwin is resident director with Outhouse Theatre Company in New York, for whom he has directed two US premieres, and he is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab. A native of Sydney, Australia, he was the first Australian to graduate from the acting program at The Juilliard School.
KA-LING CHEUNG* (Myrrha and others) is making her Pittsburgh Public debut. National Tour: The King and I with Stefanie Powers. Regional credits include: American Conservatory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Artists Repertory Theatre, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, The Western Stage, and 42nd Street Moon. New York credits include: Target Margin, Theater Ten Ten, 7.11 Convenience Theater, Hudson Exploited Theater, and The Workshop Theater. On TV, Ms. Cheung appeared on "Law & Order: SVU." She received her MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.
TAMI DIXON* (Therapist and others) is proud to make her Pittsburgh Public Theater debut with Metamorphoses. Pittsburgh credits include: The Girl in A Marriage Minuet, Julie in the world premiere of Keith Reddin's The Missionary Position, and Dora in The Muckle Man at City Theatre. Zooley in the world premiere of Amy Hartman's The Chicken Snake with The REP, Patsy/Abby in Bricolage's world premiere Key to the Field, and Sylvie in El Paso Blue at Quantum Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant at the Henry Miller Theatre, When We Dead Awaken and The Master Builder for The Century Center for the Performing Arts. Regionally: Julie in The Missionary Position at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Ms. Dixon originated the role of Pace Creagan in the world premiere of Naomi Wallace's The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, and performed in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at George Street Playhouse. TV/ Film: "Law & Order," "NYPD Blue," Mass of Angels, and Number One. She is a 2008 recipient of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, holds a BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University, and runs Bricolage Theatre Company here in Pittsburgh (http://www.webbricolage.org/).
DARREN ELIKER* (Midas and others) has appeared in PPT's productions of The Comedy of Errors, Oedipus the King, The Tempest, and Broadway. Other local roles include Copenhagen (Heisenberg), Hamlet (Claudius), The Seagull (Aston), Cripple of Inishmaan (Babbybobby), The Rivals (Jack Absolute), Translations (George), and leading roles in She Stoops to Conquer, Tonight at 8:30, and The Picture of Dorian Gray (Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre); Macbeth, All My Sons, Grapes of Wrath, and Death of a Salesman (Starlight); The Underpants and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (City Theatre); The Lion in Winter (Unseam'd Shakespeare); and Take 2's Black Dahlia (1998 video game).
DAINA MICHELLE GRIFFITH* (Aphrodite and others) is thrilled to be back at The Public! Previous productions include last season's Amadeus, Cabaret, and Broadway. Other local credits include Death of a Salesman, Eastburn Avenue, and Threepenny Opera (Playhouse REP); A Musical Christmas Carol (Pittsburgh CLO); James Joyce's The Dead (Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre); Troilus and Cressida (Bricolage); and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Pittsburgh Musical Theatre). Regional: Oliver! (Gateway Playhouse), Jesus Christ Superstar (Kansas City Starlight), The Information She Carried (FringeNYC), and Jane Ho (Lion Theatre/Theatre Row NYC). Up next: Speak American at City Theatre.
LARA HILLIER (Alcyone and others) is delighted to be returning to thePittsburgh Public Theater. Ms. Hillier is a Senior actor in the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University, where she has appeared in Webster's The White Devil (Vittoria Corombona), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Journalist), and Mill on the Floss (Maggie Tulliver). She recently returned from a semester abroad, where she studied at the Drama Centre London, UK, and performed in Romeo and Juliet (Juliet). Under the direction of Ted Pappas, Ms. Hillier made her professional acting debut in the Public Theater's production of The Tempest (Miranda), opposite Brian Murray. Previously at The Public, she has worked on Mary Stuart and Much Ado About Nothing (U/S Hero). Ms. Hillier is a multiple winner of The Public's annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Competition. Next up: Graduation!
DANIEL KRELL* (Erysichthon and others) is happy as always to be back at The Public. This production marks his 14th appearance here. Some favorite Public credits include Amadeus, Cabaret, Oedipus the King, The Tempest, Broadway, Much Ado About Nothing, You Can't Take It With You, and Sweeney Todd. Mr. Krell has acted in major roles in the area's professional theaters such as City Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Quantum, and the Playhouse Repertory Company, to name a few, and in regional theaters such as Clarence Brown Theatre and Gateway Playhouse, among others. For three years he was a member of PlayMakers Repertory Company (NC), where he earned his MFA. He is a veteran of many films, commercials, voice-overs, and industrials.
SIPIWE MOYO* (Eurydice and others) is very pleased to be a part of Pittsburgh Public Theater's production of Metamorphoses. She earned her BFA, with honors, from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, and the University of the Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Recently, she played Elise in The Overwhelming at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. She has also appeared in The Classical Theatre of Harlem's Trojan Women at Harlem Stage and in Prometheus Bound at Classic Stage Company in New York City. She is a member of the improvisational theater company, Big Apple Playback Theatre. She also has been seen performing in New York's downtown performance space, Collective: Unconscious in A., an original dance-theater adaptation of Antigone.
BHAVESH PATEL* (Vertumnus and others) is making his Pittsburgh Public debut! New York: The Tempest (Classic Stage Company), Hayden's Seven Last Words (Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Society in collaboration with The Actor's Company Theatre), Richard II in Rehearsal (New York Shakespeare Society with Stephen Spinella). Regional credits include The Book Club at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Four of Us at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, The History Boys at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Picasso at the Lapin Agile at the Chautauqua Theater Company, Henry VI Trilogy: War of the Roses and Midsummer's Night Dream at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Company, the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, and the O'Neill Theatre Institute. He also performs the voice of Sedgewick in the online science fiction serial radio program The Leviathan Chronicles (theleviathanchronicles.com). TV/Film credits: You Should Have the Body (first place N.A. Goethe Film Institute; Berlinale Film Festival), The Lonely Maiden (May 2009), and "Lipstick Jungle" (NBC). Mr. Patel received his MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program.
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