Pioneer Theatre Company :: Cast Photos & Bios

* Indicates member of Actors' Equity Association.

	JESSIE AUSTRIAN* (Cecile Le Roux) New York credits include The Marriage of Bette and Boo at the Roundabout Theatre Company, and most recently Fiasco Theater’s acclaimed production of Cymbeline. Regional credits include Jane Eyre at the Guthrie Theater, My Fair Lady at Virginia Stage Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Cleveland Playhouse, The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Trinity Repertory Company, and Cabaret & Main at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Jessie is a founding company member and teaching artist with the NYC-based Fiasco Theater: www.fiascotheater.com. She proudly holds an MFA in acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.
	CHERYL GAYSUNAS* (Madame Caron/Emperor of Russia) was last seen as Poppy in Noises Off here at Pioneer. Other PTC shows include The Heiress, Communicating Doors, and The Ladies Man. On Broadway, Cheryl appeared in La Bête, The Molière Comedies, and as Mabel in An Ideal Husband, directed by Sir Peter Hall. A few of Cheryl’s favorite roles include Maureen in Time of My Life at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Sarah in Spinning into Butter at Repertory Theatre of St Louis; and Abigail in Finding the Sun at the Signature Theatre, written and directed by Edward Albee. Television credits include Law & Order, The Chapelle Show, and many commercials. Cheryl illustrated the children’s book Everett the Incredibly Helpful Helper and has a highly entertaining almost five year old daughter named Phoebe.
	CARIANNE JONES (Marie Le Roux) is thrilled to make this her Pioneer Theatre Company debut! A Utah native, Carianne graduated from Weber State University with a bachelor’s degree in Musical Theatre. Favorite credits include Marion (The Music Man), Philia (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Sariah (The Ark), a Kit Kat Girl (Cabaret), Sally (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown), and most recently Felicity Buttondown in the Desert Star’s James Blonde.
	DAVID GRAHAM JONES* (Phelim O’Shaugnessy) is thrilled to return to Pioneer Theatre in Is He Dead? having appeared last year as Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet. New York Theatre credits include A Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center Theater workshop), King Lear (New York Classical Theatre), and The Merchant of Venice (Dramatic Interests). Some regional credits: Henry IV Part 1 (Folger), King Lear, The Drawer Boy, A Christmas Carol (Kansas City Rep), The Cripple of Inishmaan, 5^th of July, Talley & Son (Actors’ Theatre of Kansas City), Lieutenant of Inishmoor (Unicorn Theatre), Macbeth, As You Like It (Great River Shakespeare Festival), The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Michigan Shakespeare Festival), The Real Inspector Hound, and After Magritte (Dorset Theatre).
	MICHAEL KEYLOUN* (Jean-François Millet) is thrilled to return to Salt Lake City after making his Pioneer Theatre debut as Leo Bloom in The Producers. Regional credits include The Ladies Man (Indiana Repertory and Geva Theatre Center), Noises Off and Jesus Hates Me (Denver Center-Ovation Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor), The Underpants (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Taming of the Shrew (Capital Repertory), Lend Me a Tenor and Born Yesterday (Cape Playhouse), and Tartuffe (La Jolla Playhouse). Other favorites include Tusenbach in The Three Sisters, Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. MFA: University of California, San Diego. www.MichaelKeyloun.com.
	PAUL KIERNAN* (Hans von Bismarck, or “Dutchy") appeared at PTC in Romeo & Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, Amadeus, Ten Little Indians, and Cyrano de Bergerac, among others. At SLAC, Paul has been seen in Freedomland, The Memory of Water, The Beard of Avon, Cowboys and Cabbies, The Water Project and Seeing the Elephant. Other credits include: Julius Caesar (Brutus) with Salt Lake Shakespeare; Cyrano (Hangar Theatre, Ithaca); Macbeth, As You Like It, The Tempest (St. Louis Shakespeare); Merry Wives of Windsor, You Can’t Take It With You, Amadeus (Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cleveland); Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Richard III, and Henry IV. TV/film credits include: Go Figure for Disney Channel, Luck of the Irish, The Maldonado Miracle, and the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon. A proud member of AEA, he received an MFA from Brandeis University.
	ANNE STEWART MARK* (Madame Bayhilde/Sultan of Turkey) is happy to be returning after appearing in The Light in the Piazza, My Fair Lady and Noises Off at PTC last season. She has also appeared in Paint Your Wagon, Les Misérables, Macbeth, Peter Pan, Tartuffe, The Three Musketeers, Laughing Stock, Misalliance, Arcadia, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit. Musicals include Camelot, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, and Evita to name a few. She has been seen at The Salt Lake Acting Company in The Clean House, Hold Please, Going to St. Ives, Master Class and Nine; at the Peterborough Players in Hay Fever, 1940’s Radio Hour, and Noises Off; and for the Utah Opera Company as ZoZo in The Merry Widow. Also a director of some note, Anne has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for over 25 years.
	ANDERSON MATTHEWS* (Papa Leroux) most recently appeared as poor drunk Selsdon in Noises Off. Other PTC appearances include As You Like It, The Three Musketeers, Laughing Stock, and You Can’t Take It With You. Regional credits include Arena Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Hartford Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Old Globe, and Milwaukee Repertory. Broadway credits include The Robber Bridegroom, Peter Ustinov’s Beethoven’s 10^th, and Arcadia at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway credits include Driving Miss Daisy and 10 By Tennessee. Television credits include Law & Order and The Equalizer.
	KEVIN ORTON* (Basil Thorpe/Claude Rivière/Charlie/King of France) is delighted to be back, having been last seen at Pioneer in Cyrano de Bergerac. New York credits include Sir Peter Hall’s Broadway revival of Amadeus, Public/NYSF’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Moni Yakim’s The Workroom (MTS), and Peter Dinklage’s Uncle Vanya (Fisher Center). Regional theatre appearances include those in St. Louis (most recently the Bastard in Shaw’s Saint Joan), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, Phoenix, and L.A.; he also toured for three seasons with The Acting Company. Film/TV/voiceover credits include: One Take, Dakota, Law & Order, and numerous commercials and recorded books. Currently the leader of the Alt/Americana group The Maledictions, his music credits vary from opening for the Violent Femmes to original music for Cincinnati’s Twelfth Night. Presently recording a new album, his discography also includes Idle Hands and Femme Noir (solo). A new digital release is due out this year.
	GRAHAM ROWAT* (Agamemnon Buckner, or "Chicago") Broadway credits include Guys and Dolls (2009), LoveMusik (directed by Harold Prince), Dracula (directed by Des McAnuff), and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (also in Toronto). His regional credits include Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, and Toronto). He also appeared in the national tour of Les Misérables. Graham has been a soloist with the National Symphony and Portland Symphony Orchestras, and appeared on TV in Law & Order, Six Degrees, and As the World Turns. He is husband to actress Kate Baldwin. grahamrowat.com
	GREG THORNTON* (Bastien André) last appeared at PTC as Salieri in Amadeus. He appeared in the Off-Broadway production of John Ferguson at the Mint Theater and received the Best Actor Award for the role of David in The Conjugality Test at MITF in New York. He has been a resident actor with the McCarter Theatre, Geva Theatre, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He has worked extensively with the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, as well as the Cleveland Playhouse, the Denver Center Theatre Company, the Old Globe, and Playmakers Rep. He played the leading role of Col. Manly in The Contrast, winner of the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. His roles have ranged from Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird to Cyrano to Gallimard in M.Butterfly to Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard to Macbeth to Shannon in The Night of the Iguana to Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. His film and television credits include Marathon Man, Law & Order, Tales from the Darkside, Another World, and One Life to Live.