Pioneer Theatre Company
Who’s Who in the Cast
Who’s Who in the Cast
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Tyla Collier
TYLA COLLIER (Tyla) is grateful to be returning to Pioneer Theatre Company after playing Ti Moune in Once On This Island. A resident of New York City, she was last seen Off-Broadway in Sistas the Musical (Tamika/Dance Captain) and Till (Woman 2). She is a proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre. For more information, visit @tyla_collier and tylacollier.com.
Tyrick Wiltez Jones
TYRICK WILTEZ JONES (Tyrick) WOW! Great to be Back! Tyrick was last seen in a ZOOM reading starring alongside Jennifer Holliday in Sweat. Last time on stage was in 2019 playing Jagwire at NYC Center in the US premiere of Bat Out of Hell. Broadway credits: Finian’s Rainbow (Howard) and Hairspray. Broadway National Touring credits: Bat Out of Hell, Miss Saigon, Seussical, Fosse, and Show Boat. Tyrick’s been in many regional productions, commercials, voice overs, and concerts, including 60th Annual Grammy Awards: Sam Smith Performance (background singer); NYC Center ‘Encores!’ Finian’s Rainbow (Henry). Selected Film Credits: Back to Me (Independent short), Joyful Noise, and Nickelodeon’s “Shimmer and Shine.” Instagram: @tyrickwjones
Mariah Lyttle
MARIAH LYTTLE (Mariah) So excited to be here in Utah! National Tour credits include: The Color Purple (Celie). Regional credits include The Wiz (Dorothy) at Virginia Repertory Theatre, Ragtime (Sarah) and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (as cast) at Park Playhouse in Albany, New York, and Hairspray (Dynamite/Motormouth Kid) at Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Holland, Michigan. Ithaca College ‘19, BFA in Musical Theatre. mariahlyttle.com @mariahlyttle
Terita Redd
TERITA REDD (Terita) is from Washington, DC and lives in New York. She’s thrilled to be working at PTC. Commercials: AcipHex. Film/Soundtrack: Hairspray (movie) ft. Dynamites in New Line Cinema, On the Q.T., Waiting For My Bronco, and Sista Sing. TV: 2018 Grammy Awards (back-up for Sam Smith), 2018 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the 2000 and 2012 Tony® Awards, “Rosie O’Donnell Christmas Show,” and Jerry Seinfeld (2019). Broadway credits: Leap of Faith, Hairspray, Caroline or Change, and Rent. Off Broadway: Caroline or Change. First National Tours: Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Rent. Regional theatre: Heartbreak Hotel, Beehive, and The Wiz. Recording credits: Leap of Faith cast recording, Ziggy Marley, Andy Williams, Patty Austin, Benson’s Christmas, and Daryl Coley. Background vocals: Wynona Judd, and Melvin Dawson. Education: Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Fisk University (BFA of Music) and Aims University (master’s degree). “I want to thank my husband Donald Arthur for all of his love and support.”
DeMone Seraphin
DeMONE SERAPHIN (DeMone) is excited to make his Pioneer Theatre Company debut with Gerry McIntyre’s )Ain’t Misbehavin’. Broadway, national, and international credits include Miss Saigon, Ragtime, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Full Monty, Memphis, and Man of La Mancha. Directing credits include Off-Broadway productions of Yours Truly, Ella!, Back O’ Town, Split Second (revival), and Dutchman (Revival). Regional directing credits include Sleuth, The Mountaintop, Topdog Underdog (Helen Hayes nomination), The Gospel at Colonus, Once Uponzi Time: A Tale of the American Scheme (World Premiere), Songs for a New World, and Jitney. DeMone is a member of the Tony® Award-winning Broadway Inspirational Voices, and a Producing Partner at Avant Bard Theatre in Washington, DC.
GERRY McINTYRE (Director/Choreographer) directed Once On This Island, our last show before shutting down in March 2020. As a performer, Gerry has been seen on Broadway in a number of shows, including Anything Goes, Once On This Island, Chicago, Uptown It’s Hot, and Joseph...Dreamcoat, a role for which he was one of three Americans chosen to be in the film starring Donny Osmond. Gerry is also a highly sought-after director and choreographer. He choreographed Godspell at the Berkshire Theatre Group in the summer of 2020, the only Equity-sanctioned production in the country. Major theatres he has worked at throughout the United States include Lions Theatre and York Theater (Off-Broadway), Virginia Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Connecticut Repertory, Gateway Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Alliance Theater, Le Petit Theatre (New Orleans), Pasadena Playhouse, and Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, as well as television programs such as “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” “Major Dad,” and “Designing Women.” He is in the documentary After the Storm and is the associate artistic director of the York Theatre. www.Gerrymcintyre.net
WILLIAM KNOWLES (Music Director) is looking forward to his first show at Pioneer Theatre Company and his fifth time with Fats Waller and Ain’t Misbehavin’. As a composer, arranger, music director, and pianist, William has worked at regional theatres around the country including, Dallas Theater Center, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Northlight (Chicago), CenterStage (Baltimore), Indiana Repertory Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Metrostage (Alexandria), and Anacostia Playhouse (DC). He has received five Helen Hayes nominations for Musical Direction, winning twice. Originally from Milwaukee, William attended Howard University and University of Massachusetts, and now lives in Washington, DC Offstage, he has released seven jazz CDs with music partner Mark Saltman. Their latest release, titled Almost, spent more than 20 weeks on the jazz charts. Visit saltmanknowles.com and @saltmanknowles.
JO WINIARSKI (Scenic Designer) Jo’s previous designs at PTC were this past winter’s Holiday Windows and The Lifespan of a Fact. Jo’s Off-Broadway credits include Accidentally Brave, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Love, Loss, and What I Wore; other New York credits include Abingdon Theatre Company, New Georges, The New Group, Keen Company, and Clubbed Thumb. Regional design credits include Guthrie Theater; Arizona Theatre Company; Utah Shakespeare Festival (over 40 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 art director on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (episodes 1-844) and received an Emmy nomination for “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All.”
SARITA FELLOWS (Costume Designer) New York: Social! (The Park Avenue Armory); A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theater); Original Sound (Cherry Lane Theater); Hatef**k (WP Theater); Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure (Classical Theatre); A Chronicle of the Death of Two Worlds (New York Theatre Workshop); Loving and Loving (Stella Adler Studio); Robin Hood, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Singing in the Rain (Summer Theater of New Canaan); MUD, Prospect, Fabuloso! (The Boundless Theater Company); An Ordinary Muslim (associate designer, New York Theatre Workshop); Familiar (associate designer, Playwrights Horizon); Turn Me Loose (associate designer, Westside Theater). Regional: Seize the King (Alliance Theatre); Top Girls, Her Portmanteau (American Conservatory Theater); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Signature Theatre); The Royale (Arizona Theatre Company); Having Our Say (Philadelphia Theater Company). Film: Sight Pictures, Everybody Dies, Afronauts, and Dirt. Education: MFA NYU/Tisch. Other: associate professor, Princeton University, adjunct professor, NYU Tisch.
CALVIN ANDERSON (Lighting Designer) is a lighting/projection designer and production manager. Calvin has a strong pull toward the devised, radical, and risky, while leaning toward projects with heart and trust. Preferred genres include dance, theatre, live music, opera, cabaret, and drag. Career highlights include The Method Gun (Wesleyan University), Late Night Snacks 2019 (Bearded Ladies Cabaret), Oscar at the Crown (The Neon Coven), The Old Man and the Sea (Pittsburgh Playhouse), and Flipzoids (Generator Theater). Calvin was Lighting Director for Ailey II, and Production Manager for Do You Want a Cookie? (Bearded Ladies Cabaret). He is resident lighting and projection designer with FJK Dance in New York and has had the privilege to tour the world over with various projects. Calvin is also an educator, mentor, and proud member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and United Scenic Artists Local 829. #blacklivesmatter
AARON HUBBARD (Sound Designer) is enjoying his 14th season with Pioneer Theatre Company in sound mix and design. His favorite productions have been Sting’s The Last Ship, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Next to Normal, and One Man, Two Guvnors. Aaron teaches at Weber State University, and his spare time he records and produces music. His favorite star is his wife Melissa, who puts up with all the late theatre nights.
SAMANTHA M. WOOTTEN (Hair & Makeup) is excited to join the Pioneer Theatre Company and the University of Utah as Wig Master. Previous career highlights include Washington National Opera in D.C., Glimmerglass Opera in N.Y., Los Angeles Opera in CA, and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
MARY P. COSTELLO (Production Stage Manager) is so happy to be back to work! She has worked on over 60 productions during eleven seasons with PTC. Favorites include Sting’s The Last Ship, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Les Misèrables, In the Heights, Next to Normal, and Rent. Other stage management teams: Indiana Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Proud Equity member. #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter
JENNIFER GREGORY (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be a part of Pioneer Theatre Company. Prior to this, she stage managed in Chicago, where her credits included, X-Marks the Spot (Tour, Chicago Children’s Theatre); Bloomsday, Frankenstein, Puff: Believe It or Not, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Born Yesterday (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); as well as productions at Irish Theatre of Chicago, Eclipse Theatre Company, and Goodman Theatre. Outside of Chicago, Jennifer has also worked at Mason Street Warehouse, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, and Kitchen Theatre Company.
EMILY NACRISSA GRIFFITH (Assistant Stage Manager) graduated from Utah Valley University with a Bachelor of Science in Theatre Arts with emphases in performance and design/technology. Griffith earned the Kennedy Center’s Meritorious Achievement Award for her work as the production stage manager of UVU’s Next to Normal, which received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival national award for Outstanding Production.
RICHARD MALTBY, JR. (Co-creator) conceived and directed two Tony® Award-winning musicals: Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Fosse, as well as Ring of Fire. With composer David Shire: director/lyricist: Baby; lyricist: Big. With Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, co-lyricist: Miss Saigon; co-lyricist: The Pirate Queen. Director: The Story of My Life. Director/co-lyricist: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance. Off-Broadway: with David Shire: director/lyricist Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever. Director: Just Jim Dale. Regional: Lyricist/conceiver, Take Flight; book and lyrics, Waterfall; Lyricist, new musical Sousatzka. Film: Screenplay, Miss Potter. Contributes cryptic crossword puzzles to Harper’s Magazine. Son of well-known orchestra leader; Five children: Nicholas, David, Jordan, Emily, and Charlotte.
MURRAY HORWITZ (Co-creator) He began his career as a clown in the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, where he performed for three years. Productions include: Ain’t Misbehavin’: Associate Director, based his original idea and featuring songs with additional lyrics [Revival, Musical, Revue] (Aug 15, 1988 - Jan 15, 1989). André De Sheild’s Haarlem Nocturne: Book & Direction [Original, Musical, Revue] (Nov 18, 1984 - Dec 30, 1984). Ain’t Misbehavin’: Associate Director, based on his original idea & featuring songs with additional lyrics [Original, Musical, Revue] (May 9, 1978 - Feb 21, 1982). He is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and a graduate of Kenyon College.
THOMAS “FATS” WALLER (May 21, 1904 - December 15, 1943) “Fats” Waller was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and comedic entertainer. He was born Thomas Wright Waller in New York City. Waller studied classical piano and organ before apprenticing himself to legendary Harlem stride pianist James P. Johnson. Johnson introduced Waller to the world of rent parties (a party with a piano player, designed to help pay the rent by charging the guests), and soon he developed a performing career. Among his songs are “Squeeze Me” 1919, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” 1929, “Blue Turning Grey Over You” 1930, “Honeysuckle Rose” 1929, “I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling” 1929, and “Jitterbug Waltz” 1942.
BOB CLINE (Casting) is the founder of Bob Cline Casting in New York. Broadway World named him one of New York’s “Ten Best.” He has cast for film, TV, commercials, over 75 national tours, and numerous regional theaters across the country and has been associated with the casting for Pioneer Theatre Company for over a decade. Cline has been a proud faculty member in Pace University’s theatre program, in charge of the senior BFA musical theatre majors for the past 16 years. He is the Associate Director of Broadway Artists Alliance, enjoys working with The Open Jar Institute, and often teaches through The Growing Studio and The Actor’s Loft.
PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC) Now celebrating its 60th season, the award-winning PTC is Utah’s premiere professional theatre and a leading arts organization of the West. Led by Artistic Director Karen Azenberg and Interim Managing Director Diane L. Parisi, PTC promotes community-building and education through presenting world-class productions; developing new socially resonant and universal work; hosting talks, lectures, and workshops that engage a versatile and inclusive demographic, while celebrating diversity in culture and society; and serving as the connecting bridge between art and scholarship as an affiliate of the University of Utah.
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) founded in 1913, 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. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #equityworks
STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY (SDC) is the theatrical union that unites, empowers, and protects professional Stage Directors and Choreographers throughout the United States. Our mission is to foster a national community of professional stage directors and choreographers by protecting the rights, health and livelihoods of all our members; negotiating and enforcing employment agreements across a range of jurisdictions; facilitating the exchange of ideas, information and opportunities; and educating current and future generations about the critical role of directors and choreographers in leading the field.
MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI maintains its global headquarters in New York City with additional offices in London (MTI Europe) and Melbourne (MTI Australasia).
