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.
	PATTI D’BECK (Choreographer) is very happy to return to PTC for her tenth production, most recently choreographing Chicago for PTC last season. Her Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, starring Bernadette Peters, and later Reba McEntire, Bells Are Ringing, Grease! and The Will Rogers Follies, working with people such as Jeff Calhoun, Graciela Daniele, Tommy Tune and Michael Bennett. She has appeared on Broadway in 13 shows including A Chorus Line, Evita and My One and Only. She is currently a faculty member in the Theatre Deptartment at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and will be creating a new dance piece for Richmond Ballet in Spring 2008.
	MEARLE MARSH (Musical Supervisor/Conductor) is a graduate of the University of Utah and has been actively involved in both the Music and Theater Departments for over 25 years. Marsh was the assistant conductor for the University of Utah Orchestra and the A Cappella Choir, as well as the Assistant Conductor at PTC. He majored in Vocal Performance and expanded his studies to include composition and arranging. His graduate work was in both instrumental and vocal conducting. His efforts as Music Director, Conductor and performer have taken him all along the Wasatch Front, across Europe, and from California through the mid-west and to the Kennedy Center. Marsh has received critical accolades for his work at Sundance Summer Theater, Hale Center Theater, and Weber State University.
	ANNIE LEBEAUX (Musical Director) started piano lessons 53 years ago in her native Massachusetts and has been making a living at it ever since, from Boston to Barcelona to Bora Bora. Last seen at PTC as Musical Director of 2006’s Chicago, her European tours include: 42nd Street and A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway: Musical Director of Jacques Brel…, 1992-1993 and Further Mo’, both at the Village Gate. For nine years she played/sang on the 1926 paddlewheel steamboat Delta Queen. Annie was also the House Musical Director for nine years at Hersheypark in Hershey, PA, and currently plays piano on the American Orient Express luxury train. Her CD Am I in Love? is available at anniewrite@aol.com.
	GEORGE MAXWELL (Scenic Designer) is the resident scenic designer for PTC. 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 also designed several seasons for the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He is a member of United Scenic Artists. To see more of his work visit www.xmission.com/~gmaxwell.
	DAVID KAY MICKELSEN (Costume Designer) returns to PTC to design for Paint Your Wagon. He designed for last season’s Othello, as well as Five Guys Named Moe, Amadeus, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Camelot, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, Crazy for You, and 1776. Other theatres David has designed for include The Guthrie, Berkeley Rep, The Geffen, Northlight, The Denver Center Theatre Company, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, The Cleveland Playhouse, the Williamstown and Sundance Theatre Festivals, the Tennessee, St. Louis, San Diego and New Mexico Repertory Theatres, The Arizona and Geva Theatre Companies and the Oregon, Colorado, Utah and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals. Originally from Canby, Oregon, David now makes his home in Long Beach, California.
	PHIL MONAT (Lighting Designer) designed Five Guys Named Moe for PTC two seasons ago, and Chicago last season. He has designed over 360 productions in regional theatres throughout the country, including productions at The Old Globe in San Diego, The Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, 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.
	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).
	PAUL KIERNAN (Fight Director) is a proud member of AEA and was seen at PTC most recently in You Can’t Take It With You and Pride and Prejudice, and previous seasons in Amadeus, Ten Little Indians, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Cyrano de Bergerac, Peter Pan, Macbeth, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Paul has also been seen in Freedomland, The Memory of Water, The Beard of Avon, Cowboys and Cabbies, The Water Project, and Seeing the Elephant all at Salt Lake Acting Company. He recently played Brutus in Julius Caesar with Salt Lake Shakespeare, Cyrano at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, and was seen in Macbeth, The Tempest, and As You Like It at St. Louis Shakespeare. He was in Merry Wives, You Can’t Take It With You, and Amadeus with Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland; Dirty Blonde and Talking Wales with the Utah Contemporary Theatre. Other shows include Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Richard III, Henry IV, As You Like It, and The Weir. TV and film credits include Dear Rail for Sci Fi Channel, Go Figure for Disney Channel, Luck of the Irish, Double Teamed, The Maldonado Miracle, the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, Touched By An Angel, Cover Me, and Everwood. He received an MFA from Brandeis University.

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