Jack Cirillo
Director
Jack Cirillo is a professor of performance studies at Marshall University. Jack received his MFA from the prestigious Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington in 1986, and a BS from the University of Idaho in 1983. As a professional actor, Jack has worked extensively on the New York City stages, as well as in many of our country's finest regional theatres. He has had the good fortune to work with such notable celebrities as: Jerry Orbach, Lynn Redgrave, Peter Gallagher, Jason Robert Brown, Polly Holliday and Val Kilmer. Most recently, Jack played the role of Mark Rothko alongside MU Theatre alumnus Nick Reynolds in The Greenbrier Valley Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Red. He has numerous television commercials and episodic television appearances to his credit and has even appeared with the Radio City "Rockettes" in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
Donald Laney
Choreography
Donald Laney graduated from the University, of California, Irvine, with an MFA in Dance. He is currently the Producing Artistic Director of the WV Dance Company, the first and only professional touring dance company in the history of the state of WV. Donald has served as the WV Governor's School for the Arts instructor in Dance, from 2005 to present.
Musical Theatre choreography credits include assistant choreographer to Tony Nominated Donald McKayle on My Fair Lady (UC Irvine), Chicago, Beehive!, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Quilters, Cabaret (Greenbrier Valley Theatre)Hair and Little Shop of Horrors (Marshall University), High School Musical (Theatre West Virginia), Urinetown (Davis & Elkins), Gypsy, Nunsense, Anything Goes, Urinetown (WV Wesleyan), HONK! and The Music Man (Cape Fear Regional Theater).