Pioneer Theatre Company

	JOHN "JACK" GOING (Director) is pleased to be back in Salt Lake City. Other PTC credits include 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. Internationally his work has been seen in Moscow, Johannesburg, Vienna, Frankfurt, Toronto and Winnipeg.
	JAMES WOLK (Scenic Designer) Previous designs for PTC include 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 Avenue 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 Stäedtische Bühnen Augsburg in Germany he designed My Fair Lady and West Side Story; Gypsy at Theater Magdeburg and at the Staatstheatre am Gärtnerplatz (Munich), Funny Girl. He has been nominated for the Helen Hayes, Barrymore, and American Theatre Wing Awards.
	CAROL WELLS-DAY (Costumer Designer) is one of PTC’s resident costume designers and the costume shop supervisor. Her recent designs for PTC include 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 lit numerous productions directed by John Going at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnatti Playhouse and most recently Doubt, 13 Rue de l’Amour, and The Constant Wife at the Olney Theatre. He has been designing lighting since 1964 including 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., in Malvern, Pennsylvania, for which he recently designed Six Characters in Search of an Author and Theophilus North. His most recent designs include To Kill a Mockingbird for Kansas City Rep and the Arizona Theatre Co. and Pajama Game for Arizona Theatre Co. He has received an Obie, two Drama–Logue awards and a Drama Circle Award for his designs. He teaches lighting design at Purchase College.
	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 Artists 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.