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Charles Morey Artistic Director of the Pioneer Theatre Company

Charles Morey has been Artistic Director of the Pioneer Theatre Company since 1984. He has directed more than seventy productions for PTC including, in recent years, Les Misérables, The Vertical Hour, The Producers, Chicago, Metamorphoses, Julius Caesar, Humble Boy, James Joyce’s The Dead, Cyrano De Bergerac and The Real Thing

He is the author of nine plays: adaptations of the 19th century classic novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula and The Three Musketeers; a free translation/adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s Tailleur pour dames entitled The Ladies Man; as well as his original plays Laughing Stock, Dumas’; Camille and The Yellow Leaf. His plays have gone on from their PTC premieres 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 and university productions. Laughing Stock was nominated for the American Theatre Critic's Association New Play Award; won the 'Best New Play' citation from the New Hampshire Theatre Association; received the “Readers Choice” Award for Best Play from the Sarasota Herald Tribune and is published by Dramatists Play Service. The Ladies Man will be published in 2009, also by Dramatists Play Service. The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo will be published in 2009 by Playscripts.

From 1977 to 1988 he served as Artistic Director of New Hampshire’s Peterborough Players where he directed the world premieres of such plays as Percy Granger’s Eminent Domain and Vivien and poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s Ragged Mountain Elegies. Over a twenty-five year career with the Players he directed or acted in over seventy productions.

New York directing credits include productions for the Ark Theatre Company and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regionally he has directed for the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Meadow Brook Theatre, the American Stage Festival, PCPA Theatrefest and the Utah Shakespearean Festival.

He began his career as an actor working with many New York and regional theatres such as the New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the New Dramatists, Ark Theatre Co, The Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, Syracuse Stage, the Peterborough Players, Theatre by the Sea and many others.

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 fromDartmouth College and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony.

Chris Lino Managing Director of Pioneer Theatre Company

Chris Lino has been Managing Director of Pioneer Theatre Company since June of 1991. During that time, he has been responsible for overseeing the business operations of the theatre including the general administration of PTC as well as external affairs and fundraising.

Mr. Lino came to Pioneer Theatre Company from his position as Director of Development for Capital Repertory Company in Albany, New York. During 1990 he served as an instructor in Theatre Management at State University of New York at Albany. Prior to the four years he spent at Capital Rep, Mr. Lino worked as a development officer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He graduated with a B.A. in English from the State University of New York at Potsdam.