Pioneer Theatre Company

	CHARLES MOREY (Director) has been the artistic director of the Pioneer Theatre Company since 1984, during which time he has directed more than seventy productions for PTC. Recent projects include The Vertical Hour, Les Misérables, Pride and Prejudice, Chicago, Metamorphoses, Humble Boy and Julius Caesar. He served as artistic director of New Hampshire’s Peterborough Players from 1977 through 1988, where he directed 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, as well as The Ladies Man, a translation/adaptation from Georges Feydeau 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 Theatre, Asolo Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Meadow Brook Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, Connecticut Rep., Peterborough Players, Elm Shakespeare Festival, Artists’ Ensemble and many others. The Count of Monte Cristo is currently playing at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and The Ladies Man will be seen next season at Shakespeare and Company, the Indiana Repertory Theatre and Geva Theatre Center. Laughing Stock is enjoying dozens of productions across the country this season. 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 eleventh production, most recently choreographing Paint Your Wagon and Chicago for PTC. 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 Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and has just finished creating a new piece for Richmond Ballet.
	LAWRENCE GOLDBERG (Musical Director) Pioneer Theatre debut. Broadway credits include The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Phantom of the Opera, Carousel (as Conductor); Young Frankenstein, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy (as keyboardist). National Tours include Musical Direction for The Producers, Les Misérables, Sunset Boulevard, and Cats. Numerous regional theatre credits as well. Composer/lyricist for Big Bad Wolf and the Endangered Forest (Portland Opera). Composer/Music Director for Let’s Read a Story (KDKA-TV series). Orchestral arrangements for the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, Pittsburgh Symphony. Vocal arrangements for Tanglewood Festival Chorus, CANTUS. Author of Broadway Musical Anagrami, an irreverent puzzle book of musical theatre anagrams. Music degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Native of New York City. Beautiful supportive wife. Dog.
	ERIC K. JOHNSTON (Assistant Musical Director) Joining Pioneer Theatre Company for the first time with The Producers, Eric recently musically directed Hello, Dolly! with Arkansas Repertory Theatre and assisted on Les Misérables at North Shore Music Theatre. Off-Broadway productions include Shanghai Lil's, Evil Dead the Musical and How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes. Eric has also composed two short musicals: The Guest and mOnster with Raw Impressions as well as original music for a variety of plays such as Oedipus Rex, The Yorkshire Tragedy and the premiere of SubUrban Legend. After The Producers, Eric will return to Sacramento for his fifth summer with Music Circus, where he has played for 17 productions, including Les Misérables, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Smokey Joe's Cafe.
	GEORGE MAXWELL (Scenic Designer) is the resident scenic designer for PTC. He recently designed this season’s The Foreigner and the 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 and The Count of Monte Cristo 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.
	K.L. ALBERTS (Costume Designer) Previous designs at PTC include: the world premieres of Dumas’ Camille and Laughing Stock; 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 the Salt Lake Acting Company, K.L. has designed Rabbit Hole, Sexsting, Bad Dates, Kimberly Akimbo, Big Love, Gross Indecency, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Two-Headed and The Beard of Avon. K.L. has also designed Hay Fever, Ah, Wilderness! and The Matchmaker for the Utah Shakespearean Festival.
	KARL HAAS (Lighting Designer) returns to Salt Lake City for his 20th production with PTC. Previous productions include Les Misérables, West Side Story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, South Pacific, Death of a Salesman, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Our Town. Regional theatre designs include work at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Portland Stage Company, George Street Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Festival Theatre, the Santa Fe Opera, and two seasons at Peterborough Players in New Hampshire. New York credits include Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Julliard. Mr. Haas has been Lighting Supervisor/Designer for the Bolshoi Ballet/Opera, the Kirov Ballet, the Spanish National Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet. For 11 years, Mr. Haas served as Principal Designer with Gallegos Lighting Design creating lighting for architectural installations in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Currently based in Hollywood, Karl is the Architectural Western Regional Manager for Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC).
	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 Make-up 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.