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Artistic Director
Charles Morey has
been Artistic Director of the Pioneer Theatre Company since 1984. He has
directed more than seventy productions for PTC including, in recent
years, the first regional theatre production of LES MISÉRABLES, PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE, CHICAGO, METAMORPHOSES, JULIUS CAESAR, HUMBLE BOY, JAMES JOYCE'S
THE DEAD, CYRANO DE BERGERAC and
THE REAL THING in addition to the
premieres of his own adaptations of the 19th century classic novels, THE
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME,
DRACULA and THE THREE MUSKETEERS, a translation/adaptation of
Georges Feydeau’s THE LADIES MAN as
well as his original plays LAUGHING
STOCK and DUMAS' CAMILLE. His adaptations and original plays have
gone on from their PTC premieres to successful productions at professional
theatres across the country including the Alabama Shakespeare Festival,
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Asolo Theatre Company, the Repertory Theatre
of St. Louis, Meadow Brook Theatre, the
PCPA Theaterfest, the Peterborough Players, the Connecticut Repertory Theatre, the Elm Shakespeare
Company as well as numerous amateur and university productions. LAUGHING STOCK
was nominated for the American Theatre Critic's Association New Play Award and won the Best
New Play citation from the New Hampshire Theatre
Association and the “Readers Choice” Award for Best Play from the Sarasota Herald Tribune.
His newest play, THE YELLOW LEAF, will have its World Premiere at Pioneer Theatre Company in January 2009.
From
1977 to 1988 he served as Artistic Director of New Hampshire's Peterborough
Players where he directed the world premieres of such plays as Percy Granger's
EMINENT DOMAIN and VIVIEN and poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's
RAGGED MOUNTAIN ELEGIES. Over a twenty-five year career with the Players he
directed or acted in over seventy productions.
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, the Meadow Brook Theatre, the American Stage Festival, PCPA
Theatrefest and the Utah Shakespearean Festival.
He
began his career as an actor working with many New York and regional theatres such as the New
York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the
New Dramatists, Ark Theatre Co, The Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, Syracuse
Stage, the Peterborough Players, Theatre by the Sea and many others.
He has served as
both a panelist and on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts
and on the Board of Trustees of the National Theatre Conference. He received a
BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the MacDowell Colony
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Banner picture is PTC's 2006 production of
Chicago. Terence Goodman as Billy Flynn.
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