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ARTISTIC STAFF FOR TWELVE ANGRY MEN:

JOHN GOING (Director) is pleased to be back in Salt Lake City. Other PTC credits include The Light in the Piazza, The Heiress, Steel Magnolias, Evita, The Playboy of the Western World, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Present Laughter, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Rough Crossing, Dancing at Lughnasa, Born Yesterday, The Crucifer of Blood, Hay Fever, and Fiddler on the Roof. A veteran of regional theatres across the country, he has staged plays at Seattle Repertory, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Hartford Stage, Houston’s Alley Theatre, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, Syracuse Stage and South Coast Repertory, among many others. Some recent productions include A Flea in Her Ear at the Cincinnati Playhouse, Heartbreak House at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Doubt at the Olney Theatre in Maryland where he is associate Artistic Director. Opera work includes Don Pasquale and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. He has served as associate artistic director of the Alaska Repertory Theatre, as resident director for the Cleveland Play House, and as assistant to the late Sir Tyrone Guthrie during the inaugural season of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. On Broadway he directed Tony Lo Bianco in Hizzoner! Off-Broadway credits include Mart Crowley’s A Breeze from the Gulf. Internationally his work has been seen in Moscow, Johannesburg, Vienna, Frankfurt, Toronto and Winnipeg.

BILL CLARKE (Set Designer) is pleased to return to PTC after designing the sets for Romeo & Juliet, Pride and Prejudice and Steel Magnolias. He designed A Walk in the Woods and Abby’s Song on Broadway, and his off-Broadway work includes the recent Misalliance (Pearl) and So Help Me God! (Mint) as well as Eccentricities of a Nightingale (TACT) and The Daughter-in-Law (Mint Theatre – both on the NY Times 10 Best List), Secret Order (59E59), June Moon (Drama Dep’t), Queens Blvd., Ann Magnuson’s You Could Be Home Now (NYSF), Keith Reddin’s The Innocents’ Crusade (MTC), Alan Havis’ Morocco (WPA) and The Cherry Orchard (Juilliard). Regional credits include Seattle Repertory, The Old Globe Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory, Denver Center Theatre, A.R.T., Huntington Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Indiana Repertory and Cleveland Playhouse. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a recipient of the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award and San Diego Theater Critics Circle Award.

CAROL WELLS-DAY (Costume Designer) is one of PTC’s resident costume designers and the costume shop supervisor. Her recent designs for PTC include Is He Dead?, Dial ‘M’ for Murder, The Light in the Piazza, The Heiress, Doubt, Lost in Yonkers, Pride and Prejudice, James Joyce’s The Dead, The Importance of Being Earnest, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Cyrano de Bergerac, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers, Joyful Noise, Big River, As You Like It, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Ideal Husband, Misalliance, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Hay Fever. She was assistant designer for Inherit the Wind at the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. She worked for the Utah Shakespearean Festival for 13 years as a costume shop supervisor and designer. This is Carol’s second tenure at PTC. During her earlier stint she designed over 15 productions, including My Fair Lady, Oliver, and Romeo and Juliet. Carol has film and TV credits.

JEFF HILL (Lighting Designer) is pleased to be returning to PTC to light Twelve Angry Men. Past productions with PTC include The Vertical Hour, The Importance of Being Earnest, Proof, Arcadia, and Twelfth Night. He currently works at the John F. Kennedy Center as a Production Manager. He worked at StageWest in Springfield, Mass. for seven years as the Production Manager and as a lighting designer. Prior to StageWest, he was the resident Lighting Designer for Actors Theatre of Louisville for eight years and a member of that company for thirteen seasons. He also spent twelve summers designing lights for the Peterborough Players including Charles Morey’s production of Laughing Stock in 2004.

JOE PAYNE (Sound Designer) is in his tenth season as Resident Sound Designer for Pioneer Theatre Company and teaching sound design for the Department of Theatre at the U of U. He has designed sound and/or composed music for more than 100 productions in theatres throughout the country, including composition for the recent rock musical The Bakkhai, Utah Shakespearean Festival (ten years), Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Salt Lake Shakespeare, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Virginia Stage Company (four years), Egyptian Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Utah Opera, The Fulton Opera House, and Utah Musical Theater. Joe is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

AMANDA FRENCH (Hair and Makeup Designer) has been a Makeup and Hair Designer for over 20 years. She has worked for Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Utah Opera, Egyptian Theatre Company and the University of Texas at Austin. She is a contributing writer in the ninth edition of Stage Makeup by Richard Corson and James Glavan and her work can also be seen in The Costume Technician’s Handbook by Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey. She attended the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati where she studied with Hair and Makeup Designer Lenna Kaleva. She is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).