Home PRESS ROOM SEASON ARCHIVES HAMLET CAST PHOTOS & BIOS
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RICHIE CALL (Osric/Ensemble) received his MFA in acting from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. New York credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (American Globe Theatre) and Hamlet (Gorilla Rep). Other credits include: My Italy Story (Mile Square Theatre–Hoboken, NJ) and The Mousetrap, The Dresser and Noises Off (Old Lyric Repertory Company–Logan, UT). Richie lives in Logan with his wife and three children. |
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JOYCE COHEN* (Gertrude) appeared last season in Our Town as Mrs. Webb. PTC favorites include Arcadia, Othello, A Streetcar Named Desire, Enchanted April, Copenhagen. Joyce has appeared on Broadway - Once a Catholic - and off-Broadway (most recently at The Mint Theater). Regional credits include People’s Light & Theatre Co., Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Peterborough Players, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Plan-B Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Co., Sundance Film Lab, Sundance Theatre Lab. Numerous TV, film and commercial credits including SLC Punk, Independence Day, Touched by an Angel, Everwood. |
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MICHAEL CRANE* (Hamlet) Michael Crane is elated to be making his Pioneer Theatre Company debut. Off-Broadway credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Public Theatre), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), The Young Left (Cherry Lane Theatre). Other theater credits: Hell Meets Henry Halfway (Pig Iron Theatre Co.), Ubu the King (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Mag-7 (Naked Angels), Rat in the Skull (Berkshire Theater Festival), West Moon Street (Prospect Theater Co.- nominated for 2007 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role), The Leopard and the Fox (Alter Ego Prods.- nominated for 2008 New York Innovative Theater Award), Bone Portraits (Stillpoint Prods.), Middlemen (Human Animals), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Weston Playhouse). TV: White Collar (USA), Law & Order (NBC), Kings (NBC). MFA from NYU. |
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NICK DILLENBURG* (Rosencrantz) is proud to be making his Pioneer Theatre Company debut. International: The Tempest with Anthony Stewart Head (Bermuda). New York: Hater (Ohio Theatre), Henry V in Into the Hazard: Henry V (Walkerspace), Taking Leave (MCC Festival). Regional: Pride and Prejudice, World Premiere of Resurrection Blues (Guthrie Theater), Third in Third (Portland Stage), four shows at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. TV: Law & Order. MFA: University of Connecticut. |
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ERIC GILDE* (Horatio) happily returns to Pioneer Theatre Company, having previously appeared in Our Town and 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. |
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JASON HACKNEY (Ensemble) is a senior in the University of Utah Actor Training Program from Park City, UT. This is his first work with Pioneer Theatre Company. He had the lead in Alaska last fall at the U and most recently was in a revival for the Salt Lake Artists' League Theatre Festival. Other shows at the U include Tristan and Yseult as King Mark, Jerry Gardner’s A Season in Hell, Eddie/Dr.Scott in The Rocky Horror Show and Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet at UVU. He performed in an acclaimed international theatre festival in France earlier this year and is an alumni player for the U rugby team. Jason is thrilled and honored to be in one of his favorite plays, Hamlet. |
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ALEXANDRA HARBOLD* (Player Queen/u/s Gertrude) is making her Pioneer Theatre Company debut. Local credits: Six Years, Ice Glen (Salt Lake Acting Company), Living Out, Fat Pig (Pygmalion Theatre), The Seagull and the upcoming Dancing at Lughnasa (Pinnacle Acting Company). Other credits include: Fantasio (Theatre Row Theatre/NYC), Mrs. Klein (NXT/London), and In Perpetuity Throughout The Universe (AFA/Houston). Directing credits: Romeo and Juliet, Rabbit Hole, Three Days of Rain (PAC), SLAM (Plan-B) and the upcoming The Persian Quarter (SLAC). Education: BA, Middlebury College; Master’s in Performance Studies, University of London Goldsmith’s College. Training: SITI Company’s Summer Intensive at Skidmore. |
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WYNN HARMON* (Ghost/Player King) is delighted to perform at Pioneer Theatre Company for the first time. Broadway: Played the Detective in Porgy and Bess, (also telecast “Live from Lincoln Center” on PBS). Off-Broadway: As You Like It, The New Yorkers, Tibet Does Not Exist. Regional: The Constant Wife, plus ten Shakespeare plays at The Old Globe; Productions or seasons with: Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Alley, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, American Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Westport Country Playhouse and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, among others. Film: Mark in Paper Cranes. Television: Trevor Babcock on All My Children. Awards: The Edwin E. Stein Award for Excellence in the Arts, plus two Best Supporting Actor Awards: Jacques in As You Like It (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis) and St. Exupery in ...35,000 Feet (Duke Theatre). |
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JUSTIN IVIE* (Bernardo) is thrilled to be a part of Hamlet, his 24th appearance at Pioneer Theatre Company. Previous favorites include The Producers, Paint Your Wagon, Les Misérables, Othello, Julius Caesar, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Cyrano de Bergerac, 1776 and Into the Woods. Utah audiences have also seen him in White Christmas at the Egyptian Theatre Company and in Kiss Me, Kate at Utah Musical Theatre. While attending Weber State, Justin played Sweeney in Sweeney Todd and Roger Marshall in the world premiere of The Pirated Penzance. He received his MFA from Northern Illinois University where he appeared in Three Sisters, Measure for Measure, Baby, and the English language premiere of the nine-hour epic The Terrible but Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia. |
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PAUL KIERNAN* (Marcellus/Gravedigger/Fight Choreographer) appeared at Pioneer Theatre Company 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, The Water Project and Seeing the Elephant. Other credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Lawrence) with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; 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. |
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JAKE MILO KOEPPL (Guildenstern) is excited to be returning to Pioneer Theatre Company, after he played in last season’s Twelve Angry Men and Our Town. Recent theatre credits include Eugene in Broadway Bound and Biloxi Blues, and E.J. Lofgren in Harvey (Neil Simon Festival), Alan in Time and the Conways (Babcock Theatre). He completed his BFA in the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. |
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SARAH MCLONEY (Ensemble) is excited to be making her Pioneer Theatre Company debut. She has appeared in Thaed, Une Saison En Enfer and Top Girls with U of U Theatre, and also appeared as a puppeteer last year in the Meat & Potatoes production of Shadows of the Bakemono at the Rose Wagner’s Studio Theatre. She will receive her BFA from the U of U’s Actor Training Program. |
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ANDY RINDLISBACH (Ensemble) is excited to be back at Pioneer Theatre Company. He has appeared at PTC in Our Town and Othello as well as understudying for Touch(ed) and Twelve Angry Men. He has worked locally at SLAC, Plan-B and Hale Centre Theatre. Film: Disney’s Dadnapped and Minutemen, One Good Man. He holds a BFA in theatre from the U of U’s Actor Training Program. |
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NOBLE SHROPSHIRE* (Polonius) is delighted to be returning to Pioneer Theatre Company where he appeared in Three Musketeers, Amadeus, Tartuffe and Proof. Broadway: Underling (replacement and tour) in The Drowsy Chaperone; Royal National Theatre’s premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales with Trevor Nunn; Candida at Roundabout. Off-Broadway: Parris in The Crucible at Roundabout; CSC (9 seasons): title roles in Hamlet, Peer Gynt, Tartuffe, Leonce & Lena, as well as the Fool in King Lear, Mephisto in Faust, Hummel in Ghost Sonata, Robespierre in Danton’s Death, Gayev in The Cherry Orchard; La Mama. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, ART, Arena Stage, Asolo, Cincinnati Playhouse, City Theatre, Denver Center, Great Lakes, Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Phoenix Theatre, PlayMakers, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Stage West, Westport Country Playhouse. Television: Roger Stifdik in Strangers with Candy, Loving, Guiding Light. Film: The Uninvited, The Asylum Seekers. Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London |
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ALEJANDRO STEPENBERG (Ensemble) After living in Santa Fe, Israel, Cincinnati and Seattle, Alejandro now finds himself a senior in the U’s Actor Training Program. Recent much enjoyed roles include: Cleonte in Moliere’s The Would-Be Gentleman and Donalbain/First Murderer in Salt Lake Shakespeare’s Macbeth, both in the Babcock Theatre. He is incredibly thankful for the opportunity to learn from each and every professional involved in this fine production. |
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NISI STURGIS* (Ophelia) Broadway/NYC credits: appeared as Annabella, Margaret and Pamela in The 39 Steps, dir. Maria Aitken; Mrs. Van Buren (u/s) in Intimate Apparel (Roundabout Theatre/Mark Taper Forum), dir. Daniel Sullivan; Kerri Taylor/Tobi McClintoch in Perfect Harmony with The Essentials; Dsyphoria and The Less We Talk at the Ontological Hysteric, dir. Alec Duffy. Regional credits: Rachel Brown in Inherit the Wind, Geva Theatre, dir. Skip Greer; three seasons with the Denver Center Theatre Company as Vivie Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Alice Sycamore in You Can’t Take It With You, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Sister James in Doubt and Lady Anne in Richard III; Old Globe Theatre for three seasons in Loves and Hours, dir. Jack O’Brien, Pentecost, dir. Mark Lamos, Taming of the Shrew, dir. John Rando, Much Ado About Nothing, dir. Brendon Fox, Pericles, dir. Darko Tresnjak, Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?, dir. Rick Seer; and three seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre NJ as Raina, Arms and the Man, Stella, A Streetcar Named Desire, Jane Bennet, Pride and Prejudice. Nisi can be seen this fall as June Thompson in the new HBO series Boardwalk Empire. MFA Old Globe Theatre. |
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JOHN TERRY (Ensemble) is in his final year of the Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. He was most recently seen in The Rocky Horror Show as Frank N Furter. He is happy to be in his first production at Pioneer Theatre. |
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GREG THORNTON* (Claudius) appeared last season as Bastien André in the PTC production of Is He Dead? He has also played Salieri in PTC’s Amadeus, both productions directed by Charles Morey. He appeared in the Off-Broadway production of John Ferguson at the Mint Theater and received the Best Actor Award for the role of David in The Conjugality Test at MITF in New York. He has been a resident actor with the McCarter Theater, Geva Theater, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He has worked extensively with the Repertory Theater of Saint Louis and the Cincinnati Playhouse-in-the-Park, as well as the Cleveland Playhouse, the Denver Center Theatre Company, the Old Globe, and Playmakers Rep. He played the leading role of Col. Manly in The Contrast, winner of the Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival. His roles have ranged from Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird to Cyrano to Gallimard in M.Butterfly to Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard to Macbeth to Shannon in The Night of the Iguana to Valmont in Les Liasons Dangereuses. This summer, he directed the Bama Theatre Company’s production of As You Like It in the NYC Fringe Festival. His film and television credits include Marathon Man, Law and Order, Tales from the Darkside, Another World, and One Life to Live. |
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MICHAEL ZLABINGER* (Laertes) Off Broadway—The Tempest; Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. International—The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (European premiere, Vienna), dir. Pam MacKinnon. Regional—Shakespeare Theatre Company: Hamlet (Horatio) with Jeffrey Carlson; Baltimore Centerstage: Ah, Wilderness!; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), Othello (Iago), The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night; Geva: Splitting Infinity (world premiere); North Carolina Stage Company: A Doll’s House (Torvald); Long Wharf: Hamlet (Rosencrantz) with Hamish Linklater; Studio Arena: The Mousetrap; Hartford TheaterWorks: The Credeaux Canvas. TV—Guiding Light; ER; Buffy; Pacific Blue; MTV’s Undressed; MTV’s Now What? (pilot). Education—Carnegie Mellon; LAMDA. www.michaelzlabinger.com. |



















