Pioneer Theatre Company

	CHARLES MOREY (Director) has been the Artistic Director of PTC since 1984, during which time he has directed more than seventy productions including, most recently, The Ladies Man, Chicago, Pride and Prejudice, Metamorphoses, Humble Boy, and Les Misérables. He served as artistic director of New Hampshire’s Peterborough Players from 1977 through 1988, directing over forty productions including many World Premieres. 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, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Meadow Brook Theatre, American Stage Festival, PCPA Theaterfest and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He is the author of stage adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula, and The Three Musketeers, the translation/adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s The Ladies Man, and his original plays Laughing Stock and Dumas’ Camille. All received their premieres at PTC and most have subsequently moved on to successful productions in professional theatres across the country including the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Meadow Brook Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, Connecticut Rep., Peterborough Players, The Elm Shakespeare Company, and many others. Upcoming productions include The Count of Monte Cristo at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Laughing Stock, being produced this season in dozens of theatres across the country. He has served as both a panelist and on-site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts and on the Board of Trustees of the National Theatre Conference. He began his career as an actor working with many New York and regional theatres after graduating from Dartmouth College and receiving a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. He is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony.
	ANNE STEWART MARK (Assistant Director) is honored to be assisting Mr. Morey on this truly hysterical play. She has acted in many projects for him – including many comedies – and feels an affinity for his abilities, especially with farce. Her directing credits include SexSting (American Theatre Critics Best New Play nomination) and The Water Project for the Salt Lake Acting Company, Godspell and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum for The Grand Theatre, as well as several readings of new plays. She has acted with PTC for over 20 years and some of her favorite projects here include Noises Off, Tartuffe, Private Lives, Hay Fever and Blythe Spirit, as well as Laughing Stock, The Three Musketeers, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which were written or adapted by Morey. She is also a singer of some note (most recently in Les Misérables and Paint Your Wagon) and has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity for 25 years.
	GEORGE MAXWELL (Scenic Designer) is the resident scenic designer for PTC. He recently designed this season’s World Premiere of Paint Your Wagon. Last season George designed the sets for Chicago, You Can’t Take It With You and Les Misérables. He also designed Death of a Salesman for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Favorite PTC designs include Metamorphoses, Enchanted April, The Importance of Being Earnest, West Side Story, Proof, Peter Pan, Noises Off, Man of La Mancha and Ain’t Misbehavin’. He has designed the sets for Utah Opera Company’s The Coronation of Poppea and The Ballad of Baby Doe. He has also designed for the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He is a member of United Scenic Artists. To see more of his work visit www.xmission.com/~gmaxwell
	BRENDA VAN DER WIEL (Costume Designer) is happy to be designing again for PTC. As costume shop manager for the University of Utah’s theatre department, Brenda has designed several dozen shows for the Babcock Theatre and the Classical Greek Theatre Festival. Some favorites include designs for Tempest, The Merchant of Venice and Libation Bearers. Other designs for PTC include You Can’t Take It With You, Dancing at Lughnasa, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Art, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Copenhagen and The Real Thing. Brenda also frequently designs for Salt Lake Acting Company. Before moving to Salt Lake City, Brenda worked with Seattle Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Alabama Shakespeare and Utah Shakespearean Festivals.
	PETER L. WILLARDSON (Lighting Designer) is Lighting Professor for the University of Utah Theatre Department and has illuminated over 120 productions for PTC since his first design of The King and I in 1972. Willardson is the Resident Lighting Designer for PTC.
	JOE PAYNE (Sound Designer) is in his eighth season as Resident Sound Designer for Pioneer Theatre Company and teaching sound design for the Department of Theatre at the U of U. He has designed sound and/or composed music for more than 100 productions in theatres throughout the country, including The Utah Shakespearean Festival (nine years), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Salt Lake Shakespeare (two years), The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Virginia Stage Company (four years), The Egyptian Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Utah Opera, The Fulton Opera House, and Utah Musical Theatre. Joe is a member of United Scenic Artist local 829, and is also the webmaster and web designer for PTC and the Theatre Department.
	AMANDA FRENCH (Hair and Makeup Designer) has been a Makeup and Hair Designer for over 16 years. She has worked for The Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Utah Opera, The Egyptian Theatre and the University of Texas at Austin. She is a contributing writer in the ninth edition of Stage Makeup by Richard Corson and James Glavan and is a featured artist in The Costume Technician’s Handbook by Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey. 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).

Banner picture is PTC's 2007 production of Lost In Yonkers.