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.

GARY M. ENGLISH (Set Designer) A graduate of Northwestern University, he has designed scenery and costumes for Off-Broadway, television and major theaters throughout the country, including Milwaukee Repertory, The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Studio Arena Theater of Buffalo, and The Carnegie Mellon Theatre Co. Past projects at PTC include The Ladies Man, Julius Caesar, James Joyce’s The Dead, Dumas’ Camille, King Lear, Richard III, The Secret Garden, Twelfth Night, and Henry V. Press awards include Best Design recognition by the Pittsburgh Press for The Odyssey and Sunday in the Park With George. He designed A Little Night Music at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, directed by Richard Rose and winner of the Boston Drama Critics award for Best Production of a Musical. He has been nominated twice for Best Director by the Connecticut Drama Critics Circle. His production of Man of La Mancha won Best Production of a Musical (Connecticut Critics Circle,1998). Currently he is Head of the Department of Dramatic Arts, University of Connecticut, and Artistic Director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre.

PAMELA SCOFIELD (Costume Designer) Recent Off-Broadway credits include Almost Maine; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; A Fine and Private Place; The Summer of ’42. She designed the National Tour and Madison Square Garden production of Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt. Television work includes several editions of The Grammy Awards. Regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, dozens of productions for Geva Theatre and many musicals, new and old, for North Shore Music Theatre and Goodspeed Opera. She is the designer for dramatic dancer Joan Evans, performing both internationally and in NYC. Pamela has been on the faculty of Colby College and CUNY. She is presently working on Twelfth Night for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

JEFF HILL (Lighting Designer) is pleased to be returning to PTC to light The Vertical Hour. Past productions with PTC include The Importance of Being Earnest, Proof, Arcadia, and Twelfth Night. He currently works at the John F. Kennedy Center as a Production Manager. He designs lighting in the Washington, D.C. area and has been nominated for a Helen Hayes award for best lighting of a resident play. He worked at StageWest in Springfield, Mass. for seven years as the Production Manager and as a lighting designer. Prior to StageWest, he was the resident Lighting Designer for Actors Theatre of Louisville for eight years and a member of that company for thirteen seasons. He also spent 12 summers designing lights for the Peterborough Players including Charles Morey’s production of Laughing Stock in 2003.

JOE PAYNE (Sound Designer/Composer) 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).

JEFFREY STEWART WILLIAMS* (Production Stage Manager) started his career with Pioneer during the 1995-96 Season, and has worked on more than 25 PTC productions, including such classics as Big River, The Three Musketeers, and Les Misérables. Other Stage Management credits: New York University, Lincoln Center, and Idaho Shakespeare Festival. National tours: West Side Story, Annie, The Sound of Music, Ririe/Woodbury Dance Company. Prior to returning to PTC, Jeff worked as a Production Manager at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Jeff is a graduate of the University of Utah Stage Management Department, under the direction of John Caywood.

DANNY KUENZEL* (Stage Manager) This is Ms. Kuenzel’s third production with Pioneer Theatre Company, having just stage managed Doubt and assisted on Paint Your Wagon earlier this season. During the summer months, Danny can be found in Saugatuck, Michigan at the Mason Street Warehouse where she has production stage managed for the past four seasons. Other regional credits include: Alley Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Marriott Theatre, and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. 

JENNIE SANT (First Assistant Stage Manager) is a Senior in the Stage Management program at the University of Utah. Recently, Jennie was the ASM for PTC’s productions of The Foreigner, Doubt, Paint Your Wagon, and Les Misérables. Past shows she has stage managed include The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Angels in America Parts I & II, and Elektra all for the Babcock Theatre; True West and Three Sisters for Studio 115; Talking Wales II for Utah Contemporary Theatre; Henry V and Measure for Measure for Salt Lake Shakespeare.

KIMBERLY FUNK (Second Assistant Stage Manager) is currently a student in the Stage Management program at the University of Utah. After two years as Assistant Stage Manager for the Egyptian Theatre Company in Park City, she recently stage managed Anne of Green Gables at The Grand Theatre in Salt Lake, and Little Shop of Horrors at the Egyptian. For Studio 115, she has stage managed Happy End, The Heidi Chronicles, and Prelude to a Kiss.

DAVID HARE (Playwright) Sir David Hare was born in Bexhill, East Sussex, England, and was educated at Lancing College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He co-founded Portable Theatre Company, and Joint Stock Theatre Group. He was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1970/71 and Resident Dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1973. He has been Associate Director of the National Theatre since 1984. He was knighted in 1998 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His plays include Slag, Knuckle, Fanshen, Plenty, Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy, The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War, Skylight, Amy's View, and The Judas Kiss. His latest play, Stuff Happens (2005) is about the invasion of Iraq. His film work includes the screenplay for the film The Hours.