JO WINIARSKI (Scenic Design) Jo’s previous designs at PTC were 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’. Jo’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. Additional credits include Wishes for Disney Cruise Line. Jo was the art director on Late Night with Seth Meyers (episodes 1-844) and received an Emmy nomination for art direction for A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All. 

K.L. ALBERTS (Costume Design) This marks season 38 for Kevin! Some favorite PTC designs include Souvenir, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time, Les Misérables (twice), A Christmas Story -The Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, as well as the world premieres of Laughing Stock, Dumas’ Camille, and It Happened One Christmas. For the Utah Shakespeare Festival, he designed last summer’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. The Taming of the Shrew, Ah! Wilderness, Big River, Les Misérables (yet again) and Guys and Dolls, among others. While living in New York. he worked on, off and very far from Broadway, and also for the Ralph Lauren Studios.

MARCELLA BARBEAU (she/her) (Lighting Design) is a New York City-based lighting designer. Recent credits include Here Lies Love (Center Theater Group); La Boheme (Portland Opera); The Heart Sellers (Cincinnati Playhouse); Octet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Into the Woods, Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Madama Butterfly, Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera San Antonio); The Threepenny Opera, Rigoletto, Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera Columbus); Carmen, Madama Butterfly (Austin Opera);  La Traviata (Opera Omaha); Acis and Galatea, L’elisir D’amore (Florentine Opera); L’Amant Anonyme (Madison Opera); Murder on the Orient Express (Playmaker’s Repertory); Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre, world premiere). Currently, she serves as the lighting designer for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Upcoming: La Traviata (Opera Columbus), The Taming of the Shrew (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She received her Master of Fine Arts at Boston University and is a proud member of USA 829. As a Chinese-American lighting designer, Marcella actively seeks to collaborate with and amplify the voices of fellow BIPOC artists of all intersectionalities. 

PAUL JAMES PRENDERGAST (Sound Design) Pioneer debut. Broadway credits include All The Way, The Great Society. Off Broadway: Julius Caesar and Manahatta. Select regional credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival (over 25 productions), Utah Shakespeare, Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Yale Rep, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Long Wharf, Geffen Playhouse, Denver Center, Hartford Stage,  Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory, American Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley, Alliance, McCarter, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Chicago Shakes. His commercial work includes extensive theme park and museum installations and multiple national tours with Diavolo Dance Theater. Paul’s accolades include Grammy and Drama Desk nominations, BroadwayWorld, Ovation, Drama-Logue, Garland, Gregory, Footlight, and Gypsy awards. His work as a singer/songwriter has appeared in films, on recordings and in music venues nationwide.

EMILY ROTH* (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to be returning for her second season with Pioneer Theatre Company! Other credits include: The Woman in Black US Tour (Pemberley Productions), Miss Saigon (White Plains Performing Arts Center), Dial M for Murder and Sea Monsters of the Deep (White Heron Theatre Company), Lesley Nicol’s How The Hell Did I Get Here? (Pemberley Productions), and Ajijaak on Turtle Island (IBEX Puppetry). She is the co-author of Stage Management Basics: A Primer for Performing Arts Stage Managers (Focal Press © 2017, 2nd ed © 2022).

JAMES O. HANSEN* (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be in his third season here at Pioneer Theatre Company! Other credits include: Beautiful (Geva Theatre). Joseph…Dreamcoat (starring David Archuleta), Mary Poppins, and Wonderland at Tuacahn Amphitheatre. Clue (starring Sally Struthers), The Wedding Singer, A Christmas Carol at The Gateway Playhouse. James earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts Management from Dean College. Special thanks to his Mom, Family, and Ostie for their love and support! DHH.

PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC)  Now celebrating its 64th season, the award-winning PTC is Utah’s premier professional theatre company and a leading arts organization of the West. Led by Artistic Director Karen Azenberg and Managing Director Adrian Budhu, PTC presents world-class productions that celebrate diversity in culture and society, and serve as the connecting bridge between art and scholarship as an affiliate of the University of Utah. Notable productions include the regional premieres of Les Misérables, Sting’s The Last Ship, and Frank Wildhorn’s The Count of Monte Cristo, as well as the world premieres of Shucked (the first-ever Broadway tryout in Utah), A Distinct Society by Kareem Fahmy, Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones, The Messenger by Jeff Talbott, and Ass by Ellen Simon. For more information, visit PioneerTheatre.org. 

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) Founded in 1933, AEA represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers nationwide. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actor’s Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #equityworks

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States