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PAUL MASON BARNES (Director) returns to PTC after directing last season’s A Christmas Story. Additional PTC credits: Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, You Can’t Take It With You, the 2004 and 2005 productions of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Camelot and As You Like It. Utah audiences may also be familiar with Barnes’ work in Cedar City, where he has directed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival since 1993. Barnes is a founding and producing director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota, where he will direct Henry IV Part I in 2011. Recent assignments: Amadeus (Geva Theatre Center and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Man of La Mancha (Clarence Brown Theatre); Noises Off (Fulton Theatre); Duet for One (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); and The Comedy of Errors (GRSF). Additional credits include productions at The Denver Center Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Folger Theatre, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, and the Oregon, California, Alabama, Idaho and Orlando (Florida) Shakespeare Festivals. Barnes makes his home in Ashland, Oregon.

DIRK LUMBARD (Choreographer) is proud to be back for his third PTC production, choreographing after having performed in their Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Dirk served as Assistant Choreographer for the Broadway and London West End production of On Your Toes as well as co-choreographing the off-Broadway production of Dames at Sea. His director/choreographer credits have been seen around the country at The Guthrie Theatre, The Paper Mill Playhouse, St. Louis MUNY and Cape Fear Regional Theatre among others. As a performer, Dirk has appeared on Broadway in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Music Man, Imaginary Friends, On Your Toes, Barnum and Sugar Babies, and off-Broadway in Dames at Sea, Flora, The Red Menace and She Loves Me. Television: Home Improvement (which he also choreographed), Deadline and Alice in Wonderland. Dirk has taught dance/scene study at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the University of Michigan, Sarah Lawrence and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, as well as master classes across the United States and Europe. Dirk is the recipient of Stratford Theatre’s Tyrone Guthrie Award, Canada’s Stage Door Award and Chicago’s Jefferson award. Dirk would especially like to thank Chuck Morey and Paul Barnes for this opportunity.

MICHAEL HORSLEY (Musical Director) music directed A Chorus Line last year for Pioneer Theatre Company. He is resident music director for the St. Louis MUNY where he helped create Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Since then he has conducted this version for the Boston, Detroit and Toronto companies as well as last year’s national tour. He conducted the national tours of Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd Street, Cinderella, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Chicago (starring Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen). Other regional theatres include Music Theatre Wichita, American Music Theatre of San Jose, Paper Mill Playhouse, and North Carolina Theatre.

GEORGE MAXWELL (Scenic Designer) is the resident scenic designer for PTC. He recently designed 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.

K.L. ALBERTS (Costume Designer) Previous designs at PTC include: the world premieres of Dumas’ Camille and Laughing Stock, as well as 42nd Street, Miss Saigon, The Producers, Les Misérables, Metamorphoses, West Side Story, Ragtime, Proof, Phantom, Communicating Doors, A Raisin in the Sun, Death of a Salesman, The Dining Room, Room Service, Inherit the Wind, Little Shop of Horrors, Private Lives, Uncle Vanya, Scapino!, Born Yesterday, Rough Crossing and The Cripple of Inishmaan. Designs for the University of Utah’s Babcock Theatre include: On the Verge, Summer and Smoke, The Cherry Orchard, School for Scandal, I Do! I Do!, The Seagull, Table Manners and Edward II. For Salt Lake Acting Company, K.L. has designed boom, Angels in America, Go, Dog. Go!, Dark Play, I Am My Own Wife, Rabbit Hole, Sexsting, Bad Dates, Gross Indecency, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Beard of Avon among others. K.L. recently designed Infantry Monologues and Shadows of the Bakemono for Meat & Potato Theatre Company, and has designed Ah! Wilderness, Hay Fever, The Matchmaker, Fiddler on the Roof and Great Expectations: A New Musical for the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

PHIL MONAT (Lighting Designer) designed previous PTC productions of Hamlet, Touch(ed), My Fair Lady, Paint Your Wagon, Five Guys Named Moe, Chicago, Copenhagen, Ragtime, Anything Goes, Steel Magnolias, and Alexandre Dumas and the Lady of the Camelias. He has designed over 400 productions in regional theatres throughout the country, including productions at The Old Globe in San Diego, The Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Rep, The Alliance Theatre, The Arizona Theatre Co., The Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, The Huntington Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Studio Arena Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Geva Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre, The Alley Theatre of Houston, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse and The Goodspeed Opera, among others. Broadway designs include Legends starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans, Sly Fox starring Richard Dreyfuss, Finian’s Rainbow, Sally Marr & Her Escorts and Three From Brooklyn. Recent off-Broadway designs include Woman Before A Glass (Obie Award), Adult Entertainment, American Rhapsody, Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill and Visiting Mr. Green.

MATTHEW TIBBS (Sound Designer) is Pioneer Theatre Company’s Resident Sound Designer and recently designed sound for Hamlet 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.

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.