Home / PRESS ROOM / SEASON ARCHIVES / SUNSET BOULEVARD / ARTISTIC BIOS

JOHN GOING (Director) is pleased to be back in Salt Lake City. Other PTC credits include Twelve Angry Men, The Light in the Piazza, The Heiress, Steel Magnolias, Evita, The Playboy of the Western World, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Present Laughter, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Rough Crossing, Dancing at Lughnasa, Born Yesterday, The Crucifer of Blood, Hay Fever, and Fiddler on the Roof. A veteran of regional theatres across the country, he has staged plays at Seattle Repertory, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Hartford Stage, Houston’s Alley Theatre, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, Syracuse Stage and South Coast Repertory, among many others. Some recent productions include A Flea in Her Ear at the Cincinnati Playhouse, Heartbreak House at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Doubt at the Olney Theatre in Maryland where he is associate Artistic Director. Opera work includes Don Pasquale and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. He has served as associate artistic director of the Alaska Repertory Theatre, as resident director for the Cleveland Play House, and as assistant to the late Sir Tyrone Guthrie during the inaugural season of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. On Broadway he directed Tony Lo Bianco in Hizzoner! Off-Broadway credits include Mart Crowley’s A Breeze from the Gulf and, this season, My Scandalous Life at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Internationally his work has been seen in Moscow, Johannesburg, Vienna, Frankfurt, Toronto and Winnipeg.

JAYNE LUKE (Choreographer) has choreographed many PTC productions, including The Yellow Leaf, The Light in the Piazza, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Evita, Phantom, Big River, and Pride and Prejudice. Some of her acting roles at PTC were in The Producers, Present Laughter, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath and Death of a Salesman. Favorite roles include Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at SLCC’s Grand Theatre, the title role in Kimberly Akimbo at SLAC, Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie at Hale Center Theatre in Orem, Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at Egyptian Theatre Company, and Ruth in Facing East for Plan-B Theatre Company that played in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and off-Broadway in New York City.

MICHAEL RICE (Music Director) is happy to return to Pioneer Theatre Company after conducting 42^nd Street and The Light in the Piazza. He has conducted at Sacramento Music Circus, The Muny, Ford’s Theatre, the Alley, Signature Theatre and Trinity Repertory Company, where he is Resident Musical Director. Productions include  Jekyll & Hyde, Gypsy, Annie, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Paper Moon, Godspell, Cabaret, The Sound of Music, 1776, Crazy For You, and Paris By Night. Broadway and tour credits include the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Peter Pan, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Camelot, and Grand Hotel. Anne Bogart Premieres: American Vaudeville and Marathon Dancing. He was the original arranger/conductor for the off-Broadway hit Nunsense. He is music director for vocalist Klea Blackhurst. As a composer/lyricist he adapted (with Eric Bentley) Brecht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan, and penned his valentine to beauty pageants, American Beauty.

GEORGE MAXWELL (Set Designer) is the resident scenic designer for PTC. He recently designed White Chritmas, 42^nd Street, A Chorus Line and A Christmas Story. Favorite PTC designs include Chicago, Les Misérables, Metamorphoses, Enchanted April, The Importance of Being Earnest, West Side Story, Proof, Peter Pan, Noises Off, Man of La Mancha, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Foreigner and Miss Saigon. He has designed the sets for Utah Opera Company’s The Coronation of Poppea and The Ballad of Baby Doe, and productions for the Utah Shakespeare Festival and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. George is a member of United Scenic Artists. To see more of his work visit www.xmission.com/~gmaxwell.

CAROL WELLS-DAY (Costume Designer) is one of PTC’s resident costume designers and the costume shop supervisor. Her recent designs for PTC include Black Comedy, Dracula, 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.

DENNIS PARICHY (Lighting Designer) has designed The Light in the Piazza, The Heiress, Is He Dead and 42^nd Street for PTC. He has been designing lighting since 1964, on Broadway (Talley’s Folly, Burn This, The Water Engine and others), off- and off-off-Broadway and in regional theatres throughout the country. He was Resident Lighting Designer for Circle Repertory Co. for twenty-five years and is currently an Associate Artist at People’s Light & Theatre Co. His most recent designs include Misalliance for the Olney Theatre and Legacy of Light for People’s Light & Theatre Co, and the world premiere of Ten Chimneys for Arizona Theatre Co. He is the author of Illuminating the Play, in which he describes his approach to lighting design. He teaches lighting design at Purchase College.

MATTHEW TIBBS (Sound Designer) is Pioneer Theatre Company’s Resident Sound Designer and recently designed sound for White Christmas and IN. 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 adjunct faculty at University of Utah teaching Sound Design and 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 Shakespeare 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) and a current University of Utah adjunct professor of wigs and makeup.