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Charles Morey
Artistic Director for PTC
charles.morey@ptc.utah.edu
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.
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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