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CHARLES MOREY (Director/Playwright) 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, 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 moved on 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, Peterborough Players, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Creede Repertory Theatre and the Elm Shakespeare Company, with current productions of Dracula at The Denver Center Theatre Company and The Ladies Man at The Arvada Center. From 1977 to 1988 he served as Artistic Director of New Hampshire’s Peterborough Players. 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 25th production at PTC. Recent shows include Our Town, 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.

CAROL WELLS-DAY (Costume Designer) is one of PTC’s resident costume designers and the costume shop supervisor. Her recent designs for PTC include Twelve Angry Men, Is He Dead?, Dial ‘M’ for Murder, The Light in the Piazza, The Heiress, Doubt, Lost in Yonkers, Pride and Prejudice, James Joyce’s The Dead, The Importance of Being Earnest, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Cyrano de Bergerac, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers, Joyful Noise, Big River, As You Like It, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Ideal Husband, Misalliance, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Hay Fever. She was assistant designer for Inherit the Wind at the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C. She worked for the Utah Shakespearean Festival for 13 years as a costume shop supervisor and designer. This is Carol’s second tenure at PTC. During her earlier stint she designed over 15 productions, including My Fair Lady, Oliver, and Romeo and Juliet. Carol has film and TV credits.

KENDALL SMITH (Lighting Designer) returns after designing last year’s A Christmas Story. Theatre credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre, Syracuse Stage, University of Michigan, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Studio Theatre in D.C. and Connecticut Repertory Theatre. As the Resident Designer for Michigan Opera Theatre for the last sixteen years, he has designed over 50 productions. Regional Opera companies include Florida Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Pacific, Boston Lyric Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Virginia Opera, Dayton Opera, and Eugene Opera. He has consulted on numerous theatres including the Detroit Opera House and Miami Performing Arts Center.

MATTHEW TIBBS (Sound Designer) has previously worked professionally as a sound designer or engineer at Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theater, and Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. He received his MFA in Sound Design from the University of Cincinnati’s College–Conservatory of Music (CCM) and his BA from George Fox University. Matthew is also visiting faculty at the University of Utah teaching Sound Design. Matthew lives with his wife Beth and son Lucas in Salt Lake City.

AMANDA FRENCH (Hair and Makeup Designer) has been a Makeup and Hair Designer for over 20 years. She has worked for The Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Utah Opera, Egyptian Theatre Company and the University of Texas at Austin. She is a contributing writer in the tenth edition of Stage Makeup by Corson, Glavan and Norcross, and her work can also be seen in The Costume Technician’s Handbook by Ingham and Covey, and Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film by Ruskai and Lowery. 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).

PAUL KIERNAN* (Fight Choreographer) has been fight choreographer for several PTC productions, including Romeo & Juliet, Paint Your Wagon, and Les Misérables. He has also appeared onstage in Is He Dead?, Pride and Prejudice, Amadeus, and Ten Little Indians, 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.

ADRIANNE MOORE (Dialect Coach) returns to PTC after coaching dialects for My Fair Lady, The Heiress, Pride and Prejudice and The Importance of Being Earnest. For Salt Lake Acting Company, dialect credits include Angels in America, Charm, The Caretaker, End Days, Skin in Flames, Boy, I Am My Own Wife, Man from Nebraska, and Polish Joke. Adrianne will also be directing SLAC’s upcoming production of Circle Mirror Transformation. Other dialect credits include Distant Music and Talking Wales (Utah Contemporary Theatre), Frozen (Pygmalion Theatre), and the film The Redemption of Sarah Cain. She also serves as the company dialect and vocal coach for Old Lyric Repertory Company. A native of New Zealand, Adrianne worked as a director and actor in New Zealand, Australia and England before coming to the U.S. She is currently a professor of Voice and Directing at Utah State University.