Pioneer Theatre Company

	PAUL BARNES (Director) returns to PTC after directing last season’s You Can’t Take It With You, and the 2004 and 2005 season productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Additional PTC credits: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Camelot and As You Like It. Utah audiences may also be familiar with Barnes’ work in Cedar City, where he has directed at the Utah Shakespearean Festival since 1993; most recently, The Foreigner (Fall season, 2005). Barnes is a founding and producing director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota, where he will direct The Merchant of Venice in 2008. Recent assignments: The Diary of Anne Frank (Denver Center Theatre Company), Major Barbara (The Clarence Brown Theatre), Shakespeare’s R&J (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), King Lear (Shakespeare Festival of Orlando), Macbeth (Connecticut Repertory Theatre) and Tartuffe (University of Delaware/Professional Theatre Training Program). Barnes makes his home in Ashland, Oregon.
	PETER HARRISON (Set Designer) is happy to return for his 24th production at PTC. Recent shows include Othello, Humble Boy, Amadeus, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Copenhagen, Communicating Doors, Laughing Stock, The Cripple of Inishmaan, 1776, Dancing at Lughnasa, Misalliance, The Night of the Iguana, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Other theatre design credits include the Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Indiana Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Studio Arena, Goodspeed Opera and the Peterborough Players. In opera, he has served as resident designer for the Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Opera and has designed for New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, American Music Theatre Festival, Juilliard Opera and Chicago Opera Theater. Recent credits include Horton Foote's The Roads to Home, Off-Broadway with Jean Stapleton and Orfeo for the Long Beach Opera. TV projects include Sizwe Bansi Is Dead for PBS and John Leguizamo's Mambo Mouth for HBO. He has been nominated for the American Theatre Wing Design Award and the Barrymore Award.
	SUSAN BRANCH (Costume Designer) returns to PTC after designing Chicago, Julius Caesar, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Macbeth, Tartuffe, Sophisticated Ladies, King Lear, and Richard III. Among her New York credits are Griffelkin for New York City Opera and the Off-Broadway productions of Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!, She Loves Me, Fortinbras and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Local audiences may know her work from the Utah Shakespearean Festival, where she designed during the 1996-1999 seasons. Other regional engagements include Denver Center Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage Company, Skylight Opera Theatre, Lake George Opera Festival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and numerous theatres in her home city, Austin, Texas. Susan is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and the Yale School of Drama and a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
	KENTON YEAGER (Lighting Designer) has designed, produced or directed more than 600 productions for theatre, dance, music, industrials, churches, festivals, architecture, youth audiences and touring productions both nationally and internationally. His theatre design credits include work for: Milwaukee Rep, St. Louis Rep, Round House Theatre, Virginia Stage Co., Arden Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Theatre, PlayMakers Rep, The Clarence Brown Theatre, and Great River Shakespeare Festival. He has designed concerts for Suzanne Vega, Dave Matthews, They Might Be Giants, George Winston, The Kronos Quartet, and Bobby McFerrin. As an educator, Kenton runs the Masters Program in Entertainment Lighting Design at the University of Tennessee, served on the faculty at Penn State, and was Chair/Artistic Director of Interlochen Arts Camp's Department of Theater. His newest endeavor is serving as Artistic Director for the consulting and design company, Creative Event Horizons.
	JAYNE LUKE (Choreographer) has choreographed many PTC productions, including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Evita, Phantom, Big River, and Pride and Prejudice. Some of her acting roles at PTC were in Present Laughter, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath and Death of a Salesman. Favorite roles include the title role in Kimberly Akimbo at SLAC, Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Hale Center Theatre in Orem, and Ruth in Facing East for Plan-B Theatre Company that played in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Off-Broadway in New York City. Ms. Luke is the Artistic Director for Walk-Ons, Inc., which produces the Senior Theatre Project and gives performances of plays for, by, and about seniors at residential facilities and senior centers in Utah.
	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.
	JAMES PRIGMORE (Composer) has conducted and/or composed music for more than 125 productions during his 35-year career as PTC’s Musical Director. Some of his favorite projects have been Porgy and Bess, West Side Story, Kismet, Dracula, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, and A Chorus Line. His music has been heard on Starsky and Hutch, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and numerous other TV shows. In 2002, he was asked to create a special arrangement for the Richard Rogers Centenary Concert at New York’s City Center, and, in 1970, was commissioned to write a cantata commemorating the 150th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s first vision by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He now enjoys traveling, visiting friends, preparing his 200 or so concert works for publication, and entertaining his cats Kismet and Bernard.
	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.