ANNA BULLARD (Elizabeth Jelkes) performed in the Humana Festival premieres of Kia Corthron's Moot the Messenger and Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular, as well as in Dracula and 2B (or not 2B) for Actors Theatre of Louisville. Other regional credits include Blackbird at American Conservatory Theater (Una understudy), Ambition Facing West at TheatreWorks and The Mousetrap and Nunsense for Dorset Theatre Festival. In the Bay Area, her credits include Lee Sankowich's production of Killer Joe at Marin Theatre Company, The Hopper Collection at Magic Theatre and Enchanted April with Porchlight Theatre Company. She received her BA in English and Theatre from Whitman College and trained as an Acting Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

STEPHEN D’AMBROSE (Edward Hyde, Sir Danvers Carew) appeared last season in ATC’s production of Molly’s Delicious. Other recent appearances include Our Town with Two River Theatre Company, Cardinal Antonelli in Edgardo Mine at Guthrie Theater and Democracy at Park Square Theatre. Nationally, he has toured with Guthrie Theater’s Great Expectations, The Tavern and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as with Jungle Theater Company’s The Pavilion. Mr. D’Ambrose lives in the Twin Cities area and has worked at most of the theatres there. His regional credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, The Diary of Anne Frank, Sherlock Holmes, Quills and The Tempest. His film credits include Sweet Land, The Cure, Trauma, Herman USA, Christmas Carol and Midnight Chronicles. He was awarded a McKnight Artist’s Fellowship in 2000.

CARRIE PAFF (Edward Hyde, Poole, Surgical Student, Maid, Police Doctor, Hotel Porter) is making her ATC debut. Her New York credits include The Death of Griffin Hunter at Soho Rep. and Fortinbras at 78th Street Theatre Lab. Her regional credits include After the War at American Conservatory Theater, The Joan Rivers Theatre Project and Charles Grodin’s The Right Kind of People at Magic Theatre, Small Tragedy and Betrayal at Aurora Theatre Company, The Mousetrap, How the Other Half Loves, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Becoming Memories at Center Repertory Theatre and The Haunting of Winchester at San Jose Repertory Theatre. She has also been seen in various productions for American Conservatory Theater’s First Look series, The Shee Theatre Company, Woman’s Will, Word for Word and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Ms. Paff’s film credits include Presque Isle and Opal’s Diary. She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Theatre from New York University and is the co-founder of StageWrite, Building Literacy through Theatre.

MARK ANDERSON PHILLIPS (Edward Hyde, Dr. H. K. Lanyon, Drunkard, Surgical Student) is making his first appearance with Arizona Theatre Company. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his work includes roles with TheatreWorks (Theophilus North, The Grapes of Wrath, Proof), Magic Theatre (True West, Stones in his Pockets), San Jose Repertory Theatre (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Major Barbara), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Beaux Stratagem), Marin Theatre Company (The Last Schwartz), Aurora Theatre Company (Small Tragedy, Salome), California Shakespeare Theater (Measure for Measure, Henry V) and Center Repertory Theatre (How the Other Half Loves, The Mousetrap). He is the recipient of two Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Awards for the role of Jake in Stones in his Pockets (Magic Theatre) and Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (TheatreWorks).

KEN RUTA(Edward Hyde, Gabriel Utterson) began his association with Arizona Theatre Company 25 years ago as Astrov in Uncle Vanya. More recently, he appeared as Sigsbee Waddington in Over the Moon and Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. Other ATC productions include Galileo, Our Town, The Illusion, Shadowlands and The Heiress, as well as directing Billy Bishop Goes to War; ‘night, Mother; The Learned Ladies; The Real Thing; Goodbye Freddie and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. He was a member of the original companies of Guthrie Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and American Conservatory Theater. He appeared in the Broadway productions of The Elephant Man, The Three Sisters, Duel of Angels, Ross, Separate Tables and Inherit the Wind, as well as touring nationally in Oscar Wilde: Diversion and Delights. He is especially proud of his affiliations with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Minnesota Orchestra. Recent credits include King Lear and The Tempest with Southwest Shakespeare Company, Trying at TheatreWorks and The Circle and The Importance of Being Earnest (as director) for American Conservatory Theater. His more than half-century in the arts has been recognized by the Stolichnaya Arts Achievement Award for Theatre and the Equity “Renaissance Man of the Year” Award.

R. HAMILTON WRIGHT (Dr. Henry Jekyll) last appeared with Arizona Theatre Company as George Finch in Over the Moon.  His other ATC credits include  The Mystery of Irma Vep with Bob Sorenson and  Scapin  (in which he played Sylvestre, the not-so-bright colleague of Scapin, played by Bob Sorenson), as well as the world premiere of Steven Dietz’s Private Eyes and Dreams from a Summer House.  His recent credits include playing George W. Bush in David Hare's Stuff Happens at  Seattle's ACT Theatre, where he also directed Stephen Temperly's Souvenir starring Patty Coenhour and Mark Anders. He just finished directing ACT Theatre's yearly production of Greg Falls' adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.  His play Greensward was a featured selection at the Seattle Repertory Theatre's Hot Type Festival and was subsequently produced by Circus Theatricals in Los Angeles.  His new play, Sherlock Holmes and the Americans, an original Holmes and Watson adventure, is looking for a home. In thirty years as an actor he has appeared in over 120 professional productions at Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, South Coast Repertory, The Empty Space and The Public Theatre in New York, among others.

REBECCA ANGEL (Orderly) was recently seen as Paquette in Arizona Repertory Theatre's production of Candide.  Other credits with Arizona Repertory Theatre include The Who's Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, understudy to Daisy in Side Show and Students on Stage's The Shadow Box where she played Agnes.  Ms. Angel will be receiving her BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Arizona in May.

STEPHEN GAETO (Orderly) is a Junior in the BFA Acting program at the University of Arizona where he was recently seen in Arizona Repertory Theatre’s Bus Stop.  Additional Arizona Repertory Theatre credits include Henry IV, Parts I & II; Tartuffe and Romeo and Juliet.  His other credits include The Pirates of Penzance, Les Miserables, Grease and regional productions of Cabaret and The Scarlet Pimpernel. 

JEFFREY HATCHER (Playwright) is the author of Ella and co-author of Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright and Tuesdays with Morrie – all of which have been seen on Arizona Theatre Company’s stages. Mr. Hatcher authored the book for the Broadway musical, Never Gonna Dance. Off-Broadway, he has had several plays produced, including Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club, Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages, Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) at Minetta Lane Theatre, Murder by Poe and The Turn of the Screw with The Acting Company, Neddy at The American Place Theatre and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline. His plays – among them, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Murderers, Mercy of a Storm, Smash, To Fool the Eye and Work Song (with Eric Simonson) – have been seen at such theatres as Yale Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Florida Stage, The Empty Space, California Theatre Center, Madison Repertory Theatre, Illusion Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Hatcher wrote the screenplays for Stage Beauty and Casanova, as well as authoring episodes of the Peter Falk series Columbo. He is a member and/or alumnus of The Playwrights’ Center, The Dramatists Guild of America, Writers Guild of America and New Dramatists.

DAVID IRA GOLDSTEIN (Director) this year celebrates his sixteenth season as artistic director of Arizona Theatre Company. This season he will direct The Pajama Game and the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He has directed over 30 mainstage productions for ATC ranging from classics to new plays to musicals including The Pirates of Penzance,  Much Ado About Nothing, My Fair Lady, Valley Song, The Illusion, Side Man, The Mystery of Irma Vep, How I Learned to Drive, Scapin, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, H.M. S. Pinafore and  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as the world premieres of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Private Eyes, Over The Moon and Dracula by Steven Dietz, One Crazy Day by Roger Downey, and For Better or Worse by Geoff Hoyle.  As artistic director, he has produced over 150 other mainstage plays, workshops and presentations including acclaimed appearances by the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and the Theatre Royal Bath. He received the 2003 Governor’s Arts Award as Individual Artist for his contributions to the arts in Arizona. (For a complete bio of David Ira Goldstein, click here.)

KENT DORSEY (Scenic Designer) returns to ATC where he was the Scenic Designer for For Better or Worse, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright (ariZoni Award), How the Other Half Loves, Glengarry Glen Ross, Arms and the Man, Steel Magnolias, The Tempest, My Fair Lady and The Rainmaker. He designed both scenery and lighting for ATC’s Ain’t Misbehaving and was the Lighting Designer for Misalliance, Fool for Love and What the Butler Saw. His New York credits include About Time, Alligator Tales, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Silence, Suds and Yankee Dawg You Die. Mr. Dorsey has designed scenery and/or lighting on over 95 productions for The Old Globe. He has also designed for most of the major resident theatre companies. Mr. Dorsey designed scenery and lighting for Silence Chinmoku, a world premiere by Subaru Acting Company (Tokyo) and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Opera credits include the world premiere of The Conquistador at San Diego Opera, The Lighthouse at San Diego Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre, The Merry Widow at Opera San Jose, Lucia di Lammermoor at Greensboro Opera and The Flying Dutchman at Virginia Opera and La Boheme and Samson et Dalila for Palm Beach Opera.

ANNA OLIVER (Costume Designer) has designed for theatre and opera companies throughout North America including Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, ACT Theatre, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Pacific, Wolf Trap Opera Company, The Juilliard School, The Minnesota Opera, Canadian Opera Company, The Dallas Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Colorado, working with directors such as Stephen Wadsworth, Les Waters, Richard Hamburger and Jack O’Brien, among many others. Ms. Oliver is the recipient of a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Don Juan (2006), two Craig Noel Awards For Excellence in Theatre, a Geffen Award and numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. She received her MFA in Theatre Design from Yale School of Drama.

DAWN CHIANG (Lighting Designer) designed ATC’s productions of Crowns, Blues for an Alabama Sky and Oh Coward! She also lit David Ira Goldstein’s production of Guys and Dolls at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Ms. Chiang was Resident Lighting Designer for New York City Opera, where her designs included Anna Bolena, La Fanciulla del West and A Little Night Music. On Broadway, she designed Zoot Suit and Tango Pasion (co-designed with Richard Pilbrow). Off-Broadway, she has designed for Manhattan Theatre Club and Roundabout Theatre Company. Her regional credits include the Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alley Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She was the creator, designer and performer for a lighting performance piece for the Whitney Museum of American Art, delights: Art on 5 Outlets. Ms. Chiang has earned two DramaLogue Awards, a Los Angeles Drama Critics nomination for Light Comedies at the Ahmanson Theatre and an American Theatre Wing Award nomination for A Man for All Seasons at Roundabout Theatre Company.

ROBERTA CARLSON (Composer) is a frequent visitor to Arizona Theatre Company.  She has composed scores for many productions at ATC, including Macbeth, Over the Moon, As You Like It, Inventing van Gogh, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure and many others. Her work has also been heard at The Children's Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre and San Jose Repertory Theatre, as well as Deeply Rooted Dance Company in Chicago and numerous theaters in Minneapolis where she makes her home.

BRIAN JEROME PETERSON (Sound Designer) celebrates his 22nd season and 54th sound design for ATC, where he has designed, among others, Touch the Names, I Am My Own Wife, Molly’s Delicious, Twelfth Night, Tuesdays with Morrie, Crowns, Macbeth, Permanent Collection, The Pirates of Penzance, The Immigrant, The Underpants, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oh Coward!, Over the Moon, Copenhagen, The Drawer Boy, Much Ado About Nothing, Fully Committed, Proof, The Mystery of Irma Vep (forwhich he won an ariZoni Award), Loot, The Road to Mecca, and the world premieres of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Minor Demons, and The Holy Terror. His designs have been heard in many theatres includingBerkeley Repertory Theatre,La Mirada Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Northlight Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville and San Jose Repertory Theatre. Mr. Peterson has produced for several music groups, including Cuerpos Sin Sombra, The Trade, Eye Pennies and The Hillwilliams.

KEN MERCKX (Fight Director) has choreographed fights and taught actors combat for film and television, theatres and universities all across the country. He is presently a faculty member at UC, Santa Barbara and Cal State, Fullerton. Mr. Merckx is the Resident Fight Choreographer for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival (Cleveland) and A Noise Within (Los Angeles). Mr. Merckx received his MFA, in acting, from University of Illinois and his BA, in theatre studies, from the University of Washington.

BRET TORBECK (Stage Manager) returns to Arizona Theatre Company, having stage managed our production of Crowns. He has worked on the First National tours of Proof and The Phantom of the Opera. Off-Broadway, he stage managed the premiere of the musical Miracle Brothers, directed by Tina Landau. He spent eight seasons as a Resident Stage Manager at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Mr. Torbeck has also worked across the country at theatres such as Long Wharf Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, ACT Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater. Most recently, he was Production Stage Manager for Into the Woods at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle.

GLENN BRUNER (Assistant Stage Manager) is in his eleventh season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, The Pajama Game, Touch the Names, Molly’s Delicious, Twelfth Night, Bad Dates, Pride and Prejudice, The Pirates of Penzance, Copenhagen, The Fantasticks, Much Ado About Nothing, 2 Pianos 4 Hands and the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh and Over the Moon. A stage manager since 1985, Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Center Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Maine’s Portland Stage Company and Casa Mañana Musicals in Fort Worth. He was the Assistant Stage Manager for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House, and Production Stage Manager for the off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. Mr. Bruner has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and was an announcer for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio. Mr. Bruner has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1981.

GLENN BRUNER (Production Stage Manager) is in his eleventh season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, Touch the Names, Molly’s Delicious, Twelfth Night, Bad Dates, Pride and Prejudice, The Pirates of Penzance, Copenhagen, The Fantasticks, Much Ado About Nothing, 2 Pianos 4 Hands and the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh and Over the Moon. A stage manager since 1985, Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Center Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Maine’s Portland Stage Company and Casa Mañana Musicals in Fort Worth. He was the Assistant Stage Manager for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House, and Production Stage Manager for the off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. Mr. Bruner has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and was an announcer for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio. Mr. Bruner has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1981.

APRIL JACKSON (Assistant to the Stage Manager) returns to Arizona Theatre Company where she worked as Assistant to the Stage Manager on Touch the Names, Souvenir and Molly’s Delicious.  She served as Production Stage Manager for ATC’s Summer on Stage 2007, and stage managed Footloose and Godspell in previous Summer on Stage seasons.She is a recent graduate of the University of Arizona with a BFA in Theatre Education, where her stage management credits included Assistant Stage Manager for Arizona Repertory Theatre’s She Loves Me and Stage Manager for the Educational Theatre Company’s Hey Diddle Diddle! The Rhymes and Riddles of Mother Goose. Ms. Jackson also directed One Naked Woman and a Fully Clothed Man for the School of Theatre Arts’ 2005 One Act Festival.