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CHARLES MOREY (Director) 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 Bess Wohl’s Touch(ed), Hamlet and the first regional theatre 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 Denver Center Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Meadow Brook Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, PCPA Theaterfest, Peterborough Players, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Creede Repertory Theatre, Arvada Center and Elm Shakespeare Company, with upcoming productions at LA Theatre Works and Sierra Rep. among many others. He was recently commissioned by New York City’s Pearl Theatre Company to write an adaptation of Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro. 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 Shakespeare 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 thrilled to return to PTC. Her play Touch(ed) had its world premiere as part of PTC’s New Plays Initiative last year. Her other plays include Cats Talk Back (Best Overall Production, NYC Fringe Festival) and Barcelona. Her work has been produced or developed at The Vineyard Theater, The Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Northlight Theater, TheaterWorks New Works Fesitval, The Geffen Playhouse and Ojai Playwright’s Conference. Her work has also been supported by the MacDowell Colony, where she was a fellow in the fall of 2010. Her screenplay adaptation of In was included on Hollywood’s Black List of best scripts. She has also developed for network television (Fox), and is currently writing the book for an original musical about the adult entertainment business, a collaboration with Michael Friedman and The Civilians, on commission from the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. She is also developing a family drama about the meat business for HBO. 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 is a graduate of Harvard, and the Yale School of Drama. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she divides her time between New York and Los Angeles. She is so grateful to Chuck and everyone at Pioneer for their support of her work. 

JAMES WOLK (Set Designer) Previous designs for PTC include Is He Dead?, The Yellow Leaf, The Heiress, Lost in Yonkers, Five Guys Named Moe, The Real Thing, The Mousetrap, Sophisticated Ladies, Present Laughter, A View From the Bridge, Rough Crossing and A Streetcar Named Desire. His designs for Seattle’s 5th Ave. Theatre include Buddy, Company and Yankee Doodle Dandy. NYC designs include The President and Her Mistress, Summer of the Swans at TheatreworksUSA; Pagans at the Abingdon Theatre; Boys’ Life at Lincoln Center and Three Sisters, both directed by William H. Macy. Other designs include This Wonderful Life at Cincinnati Playhouse; A Flea in her Ear, An Ideal Husband and Man and Superman at the St. Louis Rep; Lucky Stiff at Olney Theatre. James was the director for Zona, the Ghost of Greenbrier and Bruno Hauptmann Kissed My Forehead. For the Staedtische Buehnen Augsburg in Germany he designed My Fair Lady and West Side Story, Gypsy at Theater Magdeburg and at the Staatstheatre am Gaertnerplatz (Munich), Funny Girl. He has been nominated for the Helen Hayes, Barrymore and American Theatre Wing Awards.

SUSAN BRANCH TOWNE (Costume Designer) returns to PTC after designing Hamlet, Our Town, A Chorus Line, Romeo & Juliet, My Fair Lady, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chicago, Julius Caesar, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Macbeth, Tartuffe, Sophisticated Ladies, King Lear and Richard III. Among her New York credits are Griffelkin for New York City Opera and the off-Broadway productions of Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!, She Loves Me, Fortinbras and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Local audiences may know her work from the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where she designed during the 1996-1999 seasons. Other regional engagements include Denver Center Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage Company, Skylight Opera Theatre, Lake George Opera Festival, and numerous theatres in her home city, Austin, Texas. Susan is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and the Yale School of Drama and a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

ANN G. WRIGHTSON (Lighting Designer) Ann’s work for the Pioneer Theatre includes Ten Little Indians and The Mousetrap among others. She designed the Broadway production of Souvenir, and she was a Tony nominee for her work on the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning August: Osage County, which she designed for Broadway, London, Sydney and the National Tour. Ann’s recent work includes Fences the Huntington Theatre, The Unmentionables at Yale rep, Up at Steppenwolf Theatre, and Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf at the Alliance Theatre. Past projects include A Prayer for Owen Meany and Inana for Denver Theatre Center and ten seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Currently she designed The Diary of Anne Frank for Indiana Rep, which moves here in March, and next she designs Crimes of the Heart at the McCarter Theatre Center. Her awards include a 2009 IRNE Award for Best Lighting for Fences at the Huntington, a Backstage Garland Award for Magic Fire at OSF, and an AUDELCO nomination.

MATTHEW TIBBS (Sound Designer) is Pioneer Theatre Company’s Resident Sound Designer and recently designed sound for White Christmas and Dracula. He has previously worked as a sound designer or engineer at Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Salem Repertory Theatre and Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. Some of his favorite past sound designs include Fat Pig, Proof, and The Full Monty. He received his M.F.A. in Sound Design from University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and his B.A. from George Fox University. Matthew has also been the sound designer on several award-winning films and video projects. Matthew is visiting faculty at University of Utah teaching Sound Design and lives with his wife Beth and son Lucas in Salt Lake City.

ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON (Dramaturg/Literary Manager). Dramaturgy includes Hamlet and the world premiere of Bess Wohl’s Touch(ed) here at PTC; Mary Zimmerman’s M. Proust (Steppenwolf/About Face); JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Thyestes (Court Theatre); Sheila Callaghan’s Lascivious Something (BAPF); & Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s Mefistofele; Amerika or the Disappearance; and The Deception, for which she was also assistant/remount director. New York directing includes the US premiere of Michel Azama’s The Life and Death of Pier Paolo Pasolini for the Act French Festival (a Village Voice Choice); The Floating World (Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Cabaret at HERE); Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab); and Genet’s The Maids (FringeNYC). Regionally, she’s also worked at ACT, Aurora, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, La Jolla Playhouse, Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, Magic Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Upcoming: the world premiere of Leah Muir’s opera Desire (adapter/director). BA, Bennington College; Master’s, Oxford University; trained at the École Jacques Lecoq and with Complicite. Williamson was a 2007 NEA Fellow in Literary Translation, and is a member of LMDA and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.