ARTISTIC STAFF FOR TOUCH(ED):

CHARLES MOREY (Director) has been Artistic Director of the Pioneer Theatre Company since 1984. He has directed over eighty productions for PTC including, in recent years, 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.

BESS WOHL (Playwright) is the first playwright featured in PTC’s New Plays Initiative. Her other plays include In, Fake and Cats Talk Back, which won the award for Best Overall Production at the NYC International Fringe Festival. She has developed her play In into a screenplay that was included in Hollywood’s Black List of best scripts. Last season, she wrote an original drama pilot for Fox, and is currently at work on a drama about meat for HBO. Her plays have been developed at The Vineyard Theater, The Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Northlight Theater, TheaterWorks, and The Geffen Playhouse. She is currently writing the book for a musical about the adult entertainment industry for Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. As an actress, Bess has appeared onstage in New York, regionally and at Williamstown Theater Festival (five summers) and in numerous films and TV shows, where she has given birth, solved crimes, committed crimes, been wrongly accused, and come back from the dead. She holds a degree in English Literature, magna cum laude, from Harvard, and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.

GARY M. ENGLISH (Scenic Designer) is the Founding Artistic Director of Connecticut Repertory Theatre and served as Artistic Director and Dept. Head in Dramatic Arts for fifteen years. Recent major directing credits include The Miracle Worker and American Primitive, both by William Gibson, and produced at The Berkshire Theatre Festival in  Stockbridge, MA. Other projects at CRT include last season’s production of A Man For All Seasons, Pentecost, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, A Little Night Music, Carousel, Man Of La Mancha, which received the 1997 Best Musical Award for the Connecticut Critics’ Circle, Wings, The Musical which was nominated for Best Direction by the Connecticut Critics Circle, Candide, A Cry Of Players, Jesus Christ Superstar, Our Country’s Good, and the world premiere of William Gibson’s play Jonah’s Dream.  As a designer, his work includes scenery and costumes for Off-Broadway, television and over 70 productions at many of America’s leading repertory theatres, including Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Buffalo Studio Arena, StageWest, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Barter Theatre, Brunswick Music Theatre, American Stage Festival, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and North Shore Music Theatre. His most recent design credits include The Fantasticks, at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Light in the Piazza, and the world premiere of The Ladies Man, by Charles Morey, at Pioneer Theatre Company. He is currently on the Board of Directors serving as Immediate Past President for U/RTA, the University/Resident Theatre Association. He served as Commissioner of Scene Design for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, USITT, as a panelist on the Connecticut Commission On The Arts, and is a member of the National Theatre Conference.

PAMELA SCOFIELD (Costume Designer) is pleased to be back at PTC, having designed The Vertical Hour and last year’s production of The Yellow Leaf. Pamela has designed for regional theatres nationally, including productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Asolo Theatre, Geva Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre and many musicals, new and old, for Goodspeed Opera. She designed the national tour of Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt, which also performed at Madison Square Garden. Other NY credits include I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; The summer of ‘42; and Almost, Maine. She has designed several editions of the Grammy Awards for national television. Pamela is the designer for dramatic dancer Joan Evans who performs internationally and with whom she shares an NEA grant for collaborative performance.

PHIL MONAT (Lighting Designer) designed previous PTC productions of My Fair Lady, Paint Your Wagon, Five Guys Named Moe, Chicago, Copenhagen, Ragtime, Anything Goes, Steel Magnolias, and Alexandre Dumas and the Lady of the Camelias. He has designed over 400 productions in regional theatres throughout the country, including productions at The Old Globe in San Diego, The Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep, The Arizona Theatre Co., The Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, The Huntington Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Studio Arena Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Geva Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, The Alley Theatre of Houston, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse and The Goodspeed Opera, among others. Broadway designs include Legends starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans, Sly Fox starring Richard Dreyfuss, Finian’s Rainbow, Sally Marr & Her Escorts and Three From Brooklyn. Recent Off-Broadway designs include Woman Before A Glass (Obie Award), Adult Entertainment, American Rhapsody, Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill and Visiting Mr. Green.

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).