michaelcampayno@wearethecollectivepgh.com

BFA Carnegie Mellon, Musical Theater 2014

Broadway: Wicked / Fiyero, The Cher Show / Rob Camilletti.

TV: The Sound of Music LIVE / Rolf, The Other Two HBO /

Dean Brennan, The Good Fight CBS.

Michael has been coaching students with Musical Theater College Auditions, facilitating masterclasses, and traveling to schools around the country for 8 years while simultaneously developing his career in NYC . He originated the role of Rob Camilletti in The Cher Show and also starred as Fiyero in the hit musical Wicked on Broadway. A Pittsburgh native and gradu­ate of Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he made his television debut as Rolf in the NBC live telecast of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood and can be heard on the cast recording. His other credits include Lance­lot in Camelot starring Robert Sean Leonard and Barry Bostwick, productions at The MUNY, Pittsburgh CLO, North Shore, Sacramento Music Circus, and in concert with the Phoenix Sym­phony and Carolina Philharmonic. Follow @michaelcampayno

amberleitsch@wearethecollectivepgh.com

Amber Leitsch is a Vocal Instructor, Musical Director, Arts Program Consultant and Teaching Artist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Amber graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BSED Degree in Music Education and a BFA in Vocal Performance. During her time there, she explored both Opera and Music Theatre through performing and teaching. She performed the roles of Sour Infermiera in the opera Suor Angelica and the understudy of the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro in Italy in 2015, then performed the role of Rosalinda in a 2016 production of Die Fledermaus. In addition, Amber won the 2015 SNATS first place award of Upper Collegiate Music Theatre and second place in the Classical category. She has previously been the Music Director for the IUP Community Music School's Crimson Youth Choir and continues to be the IUP Footlight Players’ Director and Music Director during her summers. Amber is a Pittsburgh native, but spent five years in Chicago, Illinois where she worked at Chicago Public Schools, The Stage School and was the Founding Vocal Performance and Piano Teacher at Art In Motion - A Creative Arts School, the only arts driven middle school and high school on the South Side of Chicago. Amber's number one priority while interacting with students is to provide a safe and welcoming environment where her artists can learn how to create as an outlet for their emotions, thoughts and energy. She has a passion and drive to influence arts education on a grand scale as well as create the opportunity, instill the importance and advocate for the human right of art for all students.

Daina Griffith is an Acting/Audition coach and owner of Griffith Coaching Acting Studio in Pittsburgh, PA, which opened its doors in 2017. A proud longtime union actor (AEA, SAGAFTRA) in theater, television, films, commercials and voiceover, she was honored to be named the ARTS EDUCATOR OF THE DECADE by BroadwayWorld in 2021 for Western Pennsylvania. She was also named the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's PERFORMER OF THE YEAR in 2014, and was nominated for The Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award in 2015. Daina received her BFA in Musical Theater from Point Park University.

Daina's private acting students range in age from 10-75. They include professionals looking to try new material, her contemporaries looking to nail a television callback or brand new actors. Her high school seniors are consistently invited to join prestigious BFA Acting/Musical Theater college programs all over the country including University Of Michigan, CCM, Baldwin Wallace, Elon, UNCSA, Rutgers, NYU, Pace University, Syracuse, University of Miami, Boston University, Point Park University, Temple, DePaul, Penn State, among many others.

Film: The Dark Knight Rises, Where'd You Go Bernadette, Hollidaysburgh, Happiest Season, Love And Other Drugs, Pittsburgh Dad: Streetlight Stories (Deb), Unsinkable. Televsion: Archive 81 (Netflix), MANHUNT: Deadly Games (Netflix, CBS - recurring), Outsiders (WGN - recurring). www.dainagriffith.com @daina__griffith

MFA NYU, Musical Theatre Playwriting

Joe York graduated from New York University with an MFA in Musical Theatre Playwriting and Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BFA in Musical Theatre Performance. He has been seen onstage at various professional theaters across the country, having performed in Les Miserables at White Plains Performing Arts Center, 1776 and The Ladies Man at Cortland Repertory Theater, Little Shop of Horrors and The Birds at The Huron Playhouse, and the premiere of Sweeney Todd: Prog Metal Version at Landless Theatre Company in Washington D.C.  As a writer, Joe has created works performed in New York and Pennsylvania at various theatrical companies, including two New York based equity staged readings of his original musicalsThe Trees (Music and Lyrics by Andrew Siddle, Book and Lyrics by Joe York) and Light Up! (Music and lyrics by Hali Alspach, Book and Lyrics by Joe York). Two of his original musicals Discovering Eden and Black Friday: The Musical were also invited productions for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region II fringe festival in 2011 and 2012.

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adamfladd@wearethecollectivepgh.com

BA Indiana University of Penn, Voice/Piano

Adam Fladd is so excited to be joining The Collective team and getting the opportunity to work beside such incredible artists and students! A graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he received a BA in Music with a concentration in voice and a minor in piano, Adam completed his seventh year of front ensemble instruction with the General McLane Marching Band before moving to Pittsburgh where he has been performing and teaching voice and music theory since 2015. As a pianist, he has had the opportunity to music direct a number of productions throughout the Pittsburgh area, as well as working as an accompanist at Point Park University. Adam also enjoys working as a freelance composer and arranger for musical theater and percussion, having premiere performances of his pieces around Pittsburgh and at the Allegro Charter School of Music in Charleston, South Carolina.