Kimberly Belflower (Playwright) is a playwright and educator originally from a small town in Appalachian Georgia. Plays include: John Proctor Is the Villain (2025 Broadway production, directed by Danya Taymor and starring Sadie Sink; 2024 Huntington Theatre Company, 2022 Studio Theatre, 2019 Kilroys List); Lost Girl (2018 Milwaukee Rep, Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers National Playwriting Award); Saint Pigtail (commissioned and developed by Studio Theatre, 2023 O’Neill Finalist). Belflower has also worked with South Coast Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alliance Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Farm Theater, We The Women, Less Than Rent, among others. Belflower worked for two years as a narrative lead for Meow Wolf, Santa Fe’s celebrated arts and entertainment company, where she wrote a short film with original music by Beach House. She proudly holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches playwriting at Emory University in Atlanta.

Karen Azenberg (Director) is in her 15th season as Artistic Director at PTC. Favorite projects include Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (a co-production between PTC and Geva Theatre), Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, The Lehman Trilogy, the world premiere of Alabama Story, the regional premiere of Sting’s The Last Ship, Newsies, The Play That Goes Wrong, and The Rocky Horror Show. Through Azenberg, PTC also hosted the first (and still only) Utah out-of-town tryout for a Broadway musical: the Tony Award-winning Shucked. Originally from New York, her work there includes Lyrics and Lyricists (92nd St. Y), Blocks (a collaboration with Jonathan Larson) Prom Queens Unchained, and choreography for Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle (Roundabout Theatre Company). Among her other credits are over 15 productions of West Side Story and she has worked with Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Goodspeed, Theatre Aspen, and Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Jo Winiarski (Scenic Designer) Previous designs at PTC were King James; Souvenir; Jersey Boys; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Native Gardens; The Prom; What the Constitution Means to Me; A Distinct Society; Ass; The Lifespan of a Fact; and Ain’t Misbehavin’. Winiarski’s Off-Broadway credits include The Fears; HYPROV; Accidentally Brave; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey; and Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional design credits include Guthrie Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival (over 50 shows), The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, and Geva Theatre Center.

Theresa Ham (Costume Designer) Chicago credits include: Heartbreak Hotel (Marriott Theatre), Falsettos (Court Theatre / Timeline Theatre), Beautiful (Paramount Theatre), Untitled Vampire Play (Lookingglass Theatre). Regional selections include Ride the Cyclone (Off-Broadway), The Wizard of Oz (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Come From Away (Milwaukee Repertory). Film credits: Paper Girls (Amazon Prime) and Hot Mess Holiday (Comedy Central). Ham is the recipient of 3 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Outstanding Costume Design and 17 additional nominations. She also received the 2018 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Costume Design.

José Santiago (Lighting Designer) His work has been seen at Palm Beach Dramaworks, Ogunquit Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Chicago Opera, The Paramount Theatre (Aurora, IL), Drury Lane (Chicago), The REV Theatre Company, Skylight Music Theatre, Center REP, Bristol Riverside Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre by the Sea, Bay Street Theatre, Gretna Playhouse, The Gateway, The Engeman Theater, Guild Hall, Penobscot Theatre, 5 Star Theatricals, Slow Burn Theatre, and Gulfshore Playhouse.

E.E. Bradman (Sound Designer) Credits include music and sound design for film, dance, animation, radio plays, Zoom and filmed theater, podcasts, and in-person productions all around the U.S., including Murder on the Orient Express and A Distinct Society at PTC.

Hope Bird (Hair/Makeup Designer) has spent the past five years working as run crew for Broadway shows which include The Music Man, Some Like it Hot, Back to the Future the Musical, and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Alexandra Harbold (Production Dramaturg) Most recently with PTC, Harbold served as dramaturg for Come from Away; Prayer for the French Republic; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; and The Lehman Trilogy. Other credits include acting in Sunny in the Dark (Salt Lake Acting Company) and directing The Cherry Orchard with video director Nick Dunn (Babcock Theatre). Current projects include directing Western Minerals & Their Origins (Footpath Theatre Company with UtahPresents & Flying Bobcat), Very Like a Whale (SLAC) and Arcadia (Babcock Theatre).

Sarah Shippobotham (Dialect Coach) Her work as Dialect Coach for PTC includes Come From Away, Distinct Society, Fireflies, Once, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Oslo, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Last Ship, and Oliver!. Other Dialect/Voice coaching credits include 18 seasons with the Shaw Festival (Canada) and shows for Salt Lake Acting Company including Sleeping Giant and Passing Strange. In 2011-12 Shippobotham spent seven months in New Zealand working as a Dialect Coach on The Hobbit films.

Murnane Casting (Casting Director) is a first-class office in New York City specializing in casting theatre, film, and television projects nationwide, focusing on developing new works and collaborating with emerging creators.

James O. Hansen (Production Stage Manager) is the Resident Production Stage Manager at PTC: Come From Away, Ten Brave Seconds (World Premiere), Dear Evan Hansen, Beautiful, and Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. Hansen has also worked at North Shore Music Theatre, Geva Theatre, Tuacahn Amphitheatre, The Gateway Playhouse, and The Cape Playhouse.