CHARLES MOREY (Director) has been Artistic Director of Pioneer Theatre Company since 1984. He has directed over eighty productions for PTC including, in recent years, the world premiere of Touch(ed), and the first regional productions of Les Misérables, The Producers, and The Vertical Hour. He is the author of nine plays including adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula and The Three Musketeers; a translation/adaptation from Georges Feydeau, The Ladies Man as well as his original plays Laughing Stock, Dumas’ Camille and The Yellow Leaf. All received their premieres at PTC and most have gone to successful productions at professional theatres across the country including the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, GEVA Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Asolo Theatre Company, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,  Meadow Brook Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, the PCPA Theaterfest, the Peterborough Players, the Connecticut  Repertory Theatre and the Elm Shakespeare Company as well as numerous amateur productions. From 1977 to 1988 he served as Artistic Director of New Hampshire’s Peterborough Players where he directed many world premieres. New York directing credits include productions for the Ark Theatre Company and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regionally he has directed for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, GEVA Theatre Center, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Meadow Brook Theatre, the American Stage Festival, PCPA Theaterfest and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He has served as both a panelist and on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts and on the Board of Trustees of the National Theatre Conference. He received a BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony. 

PETER HARRISON (Set Designer) is happy to return for his 24th production at PTC. Recent shows include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Humble Boy, Amadeus, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Copenhagen, Communicating Doors, Laughing Stock, The Cripple of Inishmaan, 1776, Dancing at Lughnasa, Misalliance, The Night of the Iguana, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Other theatre design credits include the Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Indiana Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Studio Arena, Goodspeed Opera and the Peterborough Players. In opera, he has served as resident designer for the Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Opera and has designed for New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, Juilliard Opera, and Opera Pacific. Recent credits include Horton Foote’s The Roads to Home, Off-Broadway with Jean Stapleton and Owen Wingrave for Chicago Opera Theater. TV designs include Sizwe Bansi Is Dead for PBS and John Leguizamo’s Emmy-winning Mambo Mouth for HBO. He has been nominated for the American Theatre Wing Design Award and the Barrymore Award.

KARL E. HAAS (Lighting Designer) Mr. Haas’ first PTC design – for the 1985 production of Our Town – began a 25-year collaboration on productions that include Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, West Side Story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, South Pacific, Death of a Salesman, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Regional theatre designs include work at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Portland Stage Company, George Street Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Festival Theatre, the Santa Fe Opera, and two seasons at Peterborough Players in New Hampshire. New York credits include Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Julliard. Mr. Haas has been Lighting Supervisor/Designer for the Bolshoi Ballet/Opera, the Kirov Ballet, the Spanish National Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet. For 11 years, Mr. Haas served as Principal Designer with Gallegos Lighting Design creating lighting for architectural installations in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Currently based in Hollywood, Karl is the Architectural Western Regional Manager for Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC, Inc). Karl would like to thank his friends at PTC for 25 years of challenging work and artistic collaboration.

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.