Pioneer Theatre Company

	ANDREW ABBOTT (Attendant/US-Lysander) is proud to make his PTC debut. He is a senior in the U of U’s Actor Training Program and the recipient of the Utahna B. Meilstrup Scholarship. Recent roles include Reverend (Happy End), Inspector Calabresi (Accidental Death of an Anarchist), and Lenny Ganz (Rumors) at Studio 115; Florizel (The Winter’s Tale) at the Babcock Theatre.
	CRAIG BOCKHORN* (Peter Quince) is always delighted to be back at PTC, where he has been seen in: Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dinner with Friends, Laughing Stock, Art, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and A Streetcar Named Desire, to name a few. Most recently, Mr. Bockhorn was seen delivering the mail in the Kennedy Center, Broadway, and National Tour of On Golden Pond. Other New York credits include Prelude to a Kiss, The Seagull, The Hope Zone, The Truth-Teller, and Kit Marlowe. Regionally, he has appeared at: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Baltimore CenterStage, Dallas Theater Center, Delaware Theatre Co., Pittsburgh Public and Walnut Street Theatre. Film and television credits include: Transamerica, all the Law & Order franchises, Ed, and One Life to Live.
	MICHAEL BURNS (Peaseblossom) is a working professional actor, educator and director. His credits include theaters in London, South Korea, New York City and throughout the United States. He has worked extensively in the Shakespeare Festival circuit and is a founding member of Handcart Ensemble theater group in New York City. He holds degrees in theatre from Brigham Young University, Southern Methodist University, and Drama Studio London.
	DON BURROUGHS* (Theseus/Oberon) is happy to be joining the Pioneer family on leave from the Las Vegas production of Mamma Mia! NY credits include: Dessa Rose at Lincoln Center, Reunion at Theatre Row (cast album), and the First National Tour of The Full Monty. Additional credits include Elyot in Private Lives (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing (Cincinnati Playhouse); Tony in West Side Story (5th Ave Theatre); Picasso in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Denver Center); Finian’s Rainbow and Annie (Walnut St. Theatre); Titanic, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Jekyll & Hyde (Maine State Music Theatre); 5 seasons with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2 seasons with Utah Shakespearean Festival, 2 seasons with California Shakespeare Festival. TV: All My Children and The Bronx Zoo.
	CELESTE CIULLA* (Hippolyta/Titania) is thrilled to return to Pioneer Theatre where she once played Lady Macbeth. Other favorite roles have included: The Phantom Lady, Kate Hardcastle (She Stoops to Conquer), and Ariel (The Tempest) at The Pearl Theatre; Tamora (Titus Andronicus) at The Old Globe; Hermione (The Winter’s Tale) at Hudson Valley Shakespeare; Ghost of Christmas Past at Cincinnati Playhouse and Laura Reynolds (Tea & Sympathy) at American Stage Festival. Celeste has never performed on Broadway but often hails cabs there. She has never been on television but owns one. Celeste made a film called Time’s Up, which she has never seen. Celeste is a graduate of Northwestern and Harvard Universities and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
	JESSE DORNAN (Mustardseed/US-Demetrius) is pleased to be part of his first production with PTC and his second Shakespearean play. Training includes the Actor Training Program and the American Conservatory Theatre’s Summer Training Congress. He has been in numerous shows but his favorites include The Busybody, The Winter’s Tale, Arms and the Man, and Happy End as Bill Cracker. This spring he will be seen in Treasure as James Monroe.
	STEVEN FEHR* (Snug/US-Peter Quince) is happy to return to PTC, where he was previously seen in Cyrano de Bergerac and Camelot. Most recently, Steven played Jonas Fogg in Sweeney Todd and Mr. Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors. Steven recently earned his Master’s Degree in Theatre-Performance at UNLV and has acted in theaters in Utah, Nevada, and California, including the Egyptian Theatre, Old Lyric Repertory Company, Desert Star, The Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville, The Melodrama Musical Theatre, and Nevada Conservatory Theatre, where he starred with Sally Struthers in Annie and Barbara Tarbuck in Mother Courage and Her Children. He has also done film, television, and radio.
	TARAH FLANAGAN* (Hermia) is delighted to be making her Pioneer Theatre debut. Some favorite past credits include: Celia in As You Like It (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Dawn in Lobby Hero (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest; Babe in Crimes of the Heart and Lori in a.m. Sunday (Humana Festival-Actors Theatre of Louisville); Mabel in An Ideal Husband (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). She has also appeared in productions with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Eugene O’Neil Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, and The Public Theatre of Maine. Tarah is a graduate of PCPA, Webster University (BFA) and Alabama Shakespeare Festival (MFA).
	CHRISTOPHER GERSON* (Puck) has appeared in theatres across the country including The Actors’ Gang, The Colony Theatre, and Odyssey Theatre (L.A.), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Roadworks Productions, and Bailiwick Repertory (Chicago), and The Chautauqua Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and South Coast Repertory regionally. Some favorite roles include the title roles in Macbeth and Hamlet, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Hal in Henry IV Part I, Ugly in Ugly’s First World at the Actors’ Gang in L.A., and Leontes in The Winter’s Tale with Great River Shakespeare. His television credits include Chicago Hope, Days of Our Lives, and Desperate Housewives. He is a graduate of the University of Evansville.
	JUSTIN IVIE* (Egeus/US-Bottom) is thrilled to be a part of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, his 19th appearance at PTC. Previous favorites include Paint Your Wagon, Les Misérables, Othello, Julius Caesar, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Cyrano de Bergerac, 1776, and Into the Woods. Utah audiences have also seen him as Bob Wallace in White Christmas at the Egyptian Theatre Company and as Fred Graham in Kiss Me, Kate at Utah Musical Theatre. While attending Weber State, Ivie played Sweeney in Sweeney Todd and Roger Marshall in the World Premiere of The Pirated Penzance. He received his MFA from Northern Illinois University where he appeared in Three Sisters, Measure For Measure, Baby and the English language premiere of the nine-hour epic The Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia.
	BRYAN KIDO (US-Peaseblossom/Philostrate) is a Senior in the University of Utah Actor Training Program. Roles in the Babcock Theatre include: (Cleomenes) The Winter's Tale, (Teucer/Servant) 37th Annual Greek Show Helen, (Marplot) The Busybody, and (Pablo Gonzales) A Streetcar Named Desire. He has also appeared in The Dining Room and Half Moon Rising in Studio 115.
	DIRK LUMBARD* (Robin Starveling) most recently appeared as Juror 8 in Twelve Angry Men at Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Broadway credits include: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Imaginary Friends; The Music Man; On Your Toes; Barnum and Sugar Babies. Off-Broadway: Flora, the Red Menace; Dames at Sea; and She Loves Me. National Tours: The Wizard of Oz (Jefferson Award); Crazy for You; and Grand Hotel. Canada’s Stratford Festival: The Music Man (Stage Door Award); Titus Andronicus; Kiss Me, Kate; The Comedy of Errors. Dirk has appeared in numerous regional productions, his favorite being at PTC as Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Television: Deadline (NBC); Home Improvement (ABC); Alice in Wonderland (PBS); and Hometown (CBS). He will be seen in the upcoming film Made for Each Other. He is the recipient of a Tyrone Guthrie Award.
	THOMAS MARCUS (Cobweb/US-Puck) is delighted to be returning to PTC after appearing in Paint Your Wagon and Les Misérables. Other credits include Peter Pan and The Who’s Tommy at Egyptian Theatre Company; Urinetown (Officer Lockstock), Angels in America: Perestroika (Prior), and Assassins (Proprietor) at the Babcock Theatre; and Plan-B Theatre’s And the Banned Played On. He has trained in New York City at The Michael Howard and Terry Schreiber Studios, and The Manhattan School of Music under the direction of Paul Gemignani. TV work includes Comedy Central’s The Graham Norton Effect. BA in Theatre Studies and Psychology from the University of Utah.
	PAUL MULDER* (Philostrate/US-Theseus/Oberon) last appeared at PTC in Julius Caesar. He performed in Dr. Dietrich’s Process Off-Broadway, Twelfth Night and Angel uh God Off-off-Broadway. Some of his favorite regional credits include Sins of the Father at the Walnut Street Theatre and The Second Shepherd's Play at Delaware Theatre Company. Most recently Paul appeared with SB Dance in Yoga The Musical and Mortal Coil. Other local credits include Wit, Hamlet, King Lear, Pride’s Crossing, A Perfect Ganesh, A Little Night Music, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and Seeing the Elephant. TV/Film credits include Andy Ross on All My Children, Ed Hopkins in Jumping for Joy and Casey in James Dean, Casey and Me and numerous TV and radio commercials.
	OPIE MULVEY (Moth/US-Robin Starveling) is happy to once again be appearing on stage at Pioneer Theatre Company. He has performed in a number of shows here at PTC, most recently The Foreigner (as the shortest member of the KKK), as well as last season's productions of Othello and You Can't Take It With You. Opie has worked on over a dozen PTC productions as a member of the Stage Crew, including Doubt, Les Misérables, Ragtime and Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
	MICHAEL POLAK* (Lysander) is excited to return to Pioneer Theatre Company after playing Tony in You Can’t Take It With You last season. His New York credits include Soldier’s Wife at the Mint Theater. Regional Credits: Doubt (Northern Stage), Turn of the Screw (Delaware Theatre Company), Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The Story (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Take Me Out (Caldwell Theatre Company – New Times Award winner and Carbonell Award nominee for the role of Shane Mungitt). Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre & Hartford Stage), The Laramie Project (PlayMakers Repertory Company), Edward II (ACT), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (West Coast Premiere), and Dracula (The Cape Playhouse). Michael received his M.F.A. from Pennsylvania State University.
	MAX ROBINSON* (Bottom) was most recently seen as “Froggy” LeSueur in The Foreigner here at PTC. Last season, he played Thénardier in Les Misérables, Brabantio in Othello, and Hercule Molineaux in PTC’s world premiere production of The Ladies Man. He has also appeared in You Can’t Take It With You, Enchanted April, Julius Caesar, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Amadeus, The Importance of Being Earnest and nearly 100 other productions at PTC. Max played Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at The Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., which earned him a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Film and TV credits include Other People’s Money, All My Children, One Life to Live, Touched by an Angel, Woody Allen’s Shadows and Fog and Disney’s Pixel Perfect.
	RUSTY ROSS* (Francis Flute) Broadway: Original cast of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Hilton Theatre & St. James Theatre). New York: Robert Wilson’s Alice (Brooklyn Academy of Music), N. Richard Nash’s The Loss of D-Natural. Regional: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! directed by Jack O’Brien (Old Globe Theatre), The Cripple of Inishmaan directed by John Christopher Jones, How to Succeed... and Proposals (Depot Theatre), Crimes of the Heart and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Totem Pole Playhouse), Six Degrees of Separation (Weston Playhouse). TV: Law & Order. Ross is a graduate of Northwestern.
	ZACHARY SCOTT (Attendant/US-Tom Snout) is pursuing a Theatre Studies degree at the University of Utah. Recently he has been seen as Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank at the Babcock Theatre. Other roles include Walker Harris in Two Rooms and Mr. Bromhead in No Sex Please, We're British.
	JARED COLE SHIPLEY (Attendant/US-Snug) gladly returns to PTC after appearing in Pride and Prejudice and Othello last season. He is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Favorite roles: Herbert Stempel in Night and Her Stars and Lt. Jack Ross in A Few Good Men at AMDA, Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew, and Joe Crowell in Our Town at The Grand Theatre. Film credits: The Racketeers, and Shmulik in The Yankles with Don Most.
	JASON TATOM* (Tom Snout) is thrilled to be returning to Pioneer Theatre Company. He was last seen in Plan-B’s production of Mary Dickson’s Exposed, which has been nominated for the Steinberg New Play Award, given to the best new play produced outside of New York. Jason has also recently been seen in Little Shop of Horrors for Egyptian Theatre Company, and Man From Nebraska for Salt Lake Acting Company. Jason is a proud graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory, and while in Denver was lucky enough to be involved in over a dozen productions with the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theatre Company.
	BJORN THORSTAD* (Demetrius) is pleased to return to PTC where he appeared in Pride and Prejudice and Ten Little Indians. New York credits include: Autophagy, The Drama League; Dan Fogler's Elephant in the Room!, NY Fringe Festival; Clean, Urban Stages; Bobby Gould in Hell (Bobby Gould); A Midsummer Night's Dream. Regional: PlayMakers Repertory Theatre. National Tour: Scooby Doo in Stagefright (Shaggy), which, like, zoinks, played Kingsbury Hall. Film: Running Funny; Junior Creative (title role), Best Picture, Redstone Film Festival. Improv: People's Improv Theatre of New York (The PIT); The Second City, Detroit.
	DAVE WILLIAMS (Attendant/US-Egeus) graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in English literature and a minor in Theatre. He has worked in film and stage productions, and resides with his family in Sandy, Utah.
	YVONNE WOODS* (Helena) New York credits include: Franny's Way, Playwrights Horizons; Henry Flamethrowa, Studio Dante; The General From America, Theater for a New Audience; Slag Heap, The Cherry Lane Alternative; Bad Juju, Greenwich Street Theatre. Regional Theater: Miss Julie, Yale Repertory Theatre; Goodnight Children Everywhere, ACT; Left, New York Stage & Film; Life's A Dream, Court Theatre; Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Huntington; Hay Fever, The Old Globe; The Great Game, Theater Previews at Duke; The General From America, The Alley; Forbidden Christmas: The Doctor and the Patient, National and International Tour including Spoleto Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, The Kennedy Center. Film and TV: Push, If You Could Say It In Words, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light. She received her training at Juilliard.

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