TALON G. ACKERMAN (Wally Webb) is thrilled to make his PTC debut. Equity Theatre credits include Collin Craven (The Secret Garden; Utah Shakespearean Festival), and Tom Brewer (Sleepy Hollow; York Theatre, NYC). Favorite regional credits include Jojo (Seussical: The Musical), Chip (Beauty and the Beast) and Michael Darling (Peter Pan). Film and TV credits include Jack Mayhoffer (Daddy Day Camp), Michael Young (One Good Man) and various commercials.

COLLEEN BAUM* (Mrs. Soames/Ensemble) is from Salt Lake City and is happy to be back at Pioneer Theatre Company. She was last seen at PTC in The Heiress, Lost in Yonkers and You Can’t Take It With You. Other theatre credits include Go, Dog. Go!, End Days, Sexsting, Rabbit Hole, Kimberly Akimbo, Cabbies, Cowboys and the Tree of The Weeping Virgin, and The Water Project at Salt Lake Acting Company as well as The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, The Laramie Project, Animal Farm, War of the Worlds, And The Banned Played On, Tragedy: A Tragedy and SLAM at Plan-B Theatre Company; Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Servant of Two Masters, Blood Brothers, Pool’s Paradise, and The Unexpected Guest at the Old Lyric Repertory Company. Colleen is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

GLORIA BIEGLER* (Mrs. Gibbs) PTC audiences will remember Ms. Biegler as Rose in Enchanted April, Claire in Proof, Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible and Susannah in Joyful Noise. She was delighted to appear on Broadway in Butley with Nathan Lane, and at the Roundabout Theatre in New York as Cordelia in King Lear with Hal Holbrook. Ms. Biegler was a member of the Broadway companies of Arcadia and Spoils of War, and of the off-Broadway company of Mrs. Klein, starring Uta Hagen. Her numerous regional credits include Elizabeth in the world premiere of Great Day in the Morning at South Coast Rep (for which she won the Drama-Logue Award for Best Actress). In addition to her stage work, Ms. Biegler has appeared on television in Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, All My Children and Guiding Light.

NATALIE BLACKMAN (Rebecca Gibbs) is thrilled to be on stage at PTC. She recently understudied for PTC’s production of Touch(ed). Natalie also appeared as Sophie in Master Class at Salt Lake Acting Company, and has performed many roles with University of Utah Theatre. She attended Circle in the Square Theatre School and will graduate from the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program in 2010.

CRAIG BOCKHORN* (Doc Gibbs) is always delighted to be back at PTC, where he has been seen in: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dinner with Friends, Laughing Stock, Art, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and A Streetcar Named Desire, to name a few. Recently, Mr. Bockhorn was seen delivering the mail in the Kennedy Center, Broadway, and National Tour of On Golden Pond. Other New York credits include Prelude to a Kiss, The Seagull, The Hope Zone, The Truth-Teller, and Kit Marlowe. Regionally, he has appeared at: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Baltimore CenterStage, Dallas Theater Center, Delaware Theatre Co., Pittsburgh Public and Walnut Street Theatre. Film and television credits include: Transamerica, all the Law & Order franchises, Ed, and One Life to Live.

MELISSA CLASON BURNS (Ensemble) is a senior in the U’s Actor Training Program and a grateful recipient of the Robert Hyde Wilson and David P. Gardner scholarships. Her University performances include Time and The Conways, The Bakkhai, The Mercy Seat, Much Ado about Nothing, Treasure, The Busybody, and Prelude to a Kiss. Melissa is ecstatic about her first PTC appearance, and gives special thanks to Mr. Morey and her loving husband, Paul.

JOYCE COHEN* (Mrs. Webb) has appeared frequently at PTC; favorite productions include: Othello, Enchanted April, Copenhagen, Arcadia, Laughing Stock, and last year’s Romeo & Juliet. She has appeared on Broadway in Once A Catholic and Off-Broadway at the Mint Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Chelsea Westside, and others. Regional credits include The Utah Shakespearean Festival (where she appeared last summer in Foxfire and The Secret Garden), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, People’s Light and Theatre Co., Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, The Peterborough Players, Plan-B Theatre, and Salt Lake Acting Company. TV/Film credits: Archie Bunker’s Place, High School Musical, Read it and Weep, SLC Punk, Touched By An Angel, Everwood, Promised Land, The Dance, Pirates of the Great Salt Lake and The Adventures of Food Boy. Joyce is a proud member of AEA.

GWEN DE VEER (Ensemble) Originally from Bloomington, IL Gwen is thrilled to be in her second show at PTC, after appearing in My Fair Lady. She is a senior at the University of Utah, where she appeared in Time and the Conways (Hazel Conway), The Seagull (Masha), and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Helen). Gwen would like to thank her family, friends, and faculty for their guidance and support.

KEVIN DOYLE* (Joe Stoddard/Ensemble) previous PTC productions: Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and As You Like It. At Salt Lake Acting Company productions include The Overwhelming, The Goat, Rounding Third, Polish Joke, The Water Project and Saturday’s Voyeur ’07. Kevin has also performed with Plan-B Theatre, and The Egyptian Theatre in Park City as well as five summers with the Sundance Theatre Lab. A member of the professional actors’ union Actors’ Equity Association for 26 years, he has also performed regionally in St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago.

GABRIELLE GASTON (Ensemble) recently appeared in the University of Utah’s Babcock Theatre as Kay Conway in Time and the Conways, and as Tiresias/Agave in the Classic Greek Theatre Festival’s production of The Bakkhai. Other favorite credits include The Diary of Anne Frank and Much Ado About Nothing in the Babcock Theatre, and Top Girls in Studio 115. A senior in the University’s Actor Training Program, this marks her PTC debut.

ERIC GILDE* (George Gibbs) is ecstatic to return to Pioneer after playing Benvolio in last season’s Romeo & Juliet. New York credits include The Nosemaker’s Apprentice (The Brick), Wedding Pictures (EST), and Edgewise (Cherry Lane Studio). Other regional credits include The History Boys (St. Louis Rep), The Mistakes Madeline Made, All’s Well That Ends Well, and the Ladies of the Camelias (Yale Repertory Theatre), and Last Train to Nibroc (The Kitchen Theatre Co). Eric also appeared in the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival production of Rolin Jones’ The Jammer (Fringe First). He holds an MFA and BA from Yale University.

TERENCE GOODMAN* (Constable Warren) is happy to return to Pioneer Theatre Company for a second time this season. Past roles include Juror Twelve in Twelve Angry Men, Billy Flynn in Chicago and Jake Whippany in Paint Your Wagon. Broadway and First National tour credits include the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, Damn Yankees (first revival with Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston), and as Capt. Smith in Titanic. Other regional roles include Great Expectations (Joe) for Goodspeed Musicals and Eliot Ness in Cleveland (Al Capone) for Hal Prince/Denver Center. Film credits include Ode to Billy Joe (co-starring), Final Rinse (starring) and Minute Men for Disney Productions. Terence was a series regular on Days of Our Lives and guest-starred on numerous television shows from Laverne & Shirley to Everwood. He holds a Masters Degree in directing and would like to dedicate this performance to his six-year-old son Jack Patrick.

PAUL KIERNAN* (Simon Stimson) appeared at PTC in Twelve Angry Men as Juror Ten, Is He Dead?, Romeo & Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, and Amadeus, among others. At SLAC, Paul has been seen in Freedomland, The Memory of Water, The Beard of Avon, Cabbies, Cowboys and the Tree of The Weeping Virgin,, 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.

JAKE MILO KOEPPL (Ensemble) This is Jake’s second production at Pioneer Theatre Company. He has recently played the Guard in Twelve Angry Men at PTC; also, Eugene in Biloxi Blues, and E.J. Lofgren in Harvey, both at the Neil Simon Festival. His motion picture credits include Pete in Taking 5. He just completed his BFA in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah.

ANDERSON MATTHEWS* (Stage Manager) most recently appeared here as Papa Leroux in Is He Dead? Other PTC shows include The Three Musketeers, As You Like It, Laughing Stock, You Can’t Take It With You, and Noises Off. Other regional credits include Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Old Globe, and Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Broadway credits include Pater Ustinov’s Beethoven’s 10^th and The Robber Bridegroom. Off-Broadway credits include Driving Miss Daisy, Ten By Tennessee, and Arcadia at Lincoln Center. Way off-Broadway he appeared at London’s Old Vic in The Cradle Will Rock. Television credits include Law & Order and The Equalizer.

AMELIA McCLAIN* (Emily Webb) is thrilled to be back at PTC after last year’s production of Romeo & Juliet. Her New York credits include Mine (Slant Theatre Project), A Doll’s House (Studio Tisch), Dance Dance Revolution (Les Freres Corbusier), October/November (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and The Horton Foote Project (Slant Theatre Project). Some regional credits include Noises Off (Arena Stage), Restoration Comedy (The Old Globe), and The Pursuit of Happiness (Merrimack Repertory). Amelia holds a B.F.A. from The University of Evansville and an M.F.A. from New York University.

GLENN PETERS* (Howie Newsome) is pleased to be making his PTC debut. He has appeared off-Broadway and nationally with The Acting Company in their productions of The Turn of the Screw, Murder by Poe, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, and American Dreams: Lost and Found. Glenn originated the role of Streffy in Glimpses of the Moon, at the historic Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, and the role of Lady Clem in West Moon Street, for Prospect Theater Company. Other New York credits include The New York International Fringe Festival, New York Musical Theatre Festival, and Summer Play Festival. Regional credits include Two River Theater Company, Encore Theatre Company, ZACH Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Stage One, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, Shakespeare Festival/LA, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. In 2008, he shot a short film in Logan, for Utah filmmaker Clay Olsen. Glenn lives in Manhattan with his wife Allison, their son Kannon Dashiell, and their dog Lucy.

ANDY RINDLISBACH (Joe/Si Crowell/Ensemble) has appeared with the U of U Theatre as Billy in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Katurian in The Pillowman, and recently as Dionysus in The Bakkhai for the department’s Classical Greek Theatre Festival. Other favorite roles include Jimmy in The Rainmaker at Hale Centre Theatre and Jason in Rabbit Hole at SLAC. He will graduate from the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program in 2010.

JASON TATOM* (Professor Willard/Ensemble) is happy to be returning to Pioneer Theatre Company. He was last seen here in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and You Can’t Take It With You. Jason has also been seen in Exposed for Plan-B Theatre Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for The Egyptian Theatre Company, Man From Nebraska for Salt Lake Acting Company, and Much Ado About Nothing at the Denver Center Theatre Company. He has also appeared in various films and television commercials. Jason is a proud graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory.