KIMB WILLIAMSON is Scottsdale College?s resident scenic designer and Theatre Arts Director. She teaches courses in Theatre Design and Production and Art Humanities and serves as Academic Advisor to students in SCC Fine Arts Programs. In addition to being Vice President for Commissions for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Kimb has designed and/or worked as a scenic artist for Music Theatre of Wichita; Arizona Theatre Company; Actors Theatre; Childsplay; ASU?s Department of Theatre; Phoenix Theatre; Arizona Jewish Theatre Company; Southwest Shakespeare Company and is a guest instructor of scenic art at Cobalt Studios in New York. She has been a guest designer at the University of Northern Colorado and taught master classes at UNC and Colorado State University. Kimb was selected to be part of a delegation of American stage designers and artisans to the People?s Republic of China, is on the editorial board of The Painter?s Journal and is a recipient of the KC/ACTF Region VIII?s Medal for Excellence in Theatre Education.

ELAINE ?E.E.? MOE has a distinguished professional career that reflects her lifelong dedication to developing young artists. She has worked in Los Angeles and New York, appearing in regional theatres, Off-Broadway, touring productions and serving as guest-artist at numerous universities. ?E.E.? has served as: Director of Production and guest director at the University of Arizona; guest-artist at the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival and LA Olympics Theatre Festival. Currently she is Senior Faculty Advisor in Directing/Acting at SCC where she will next direct JOHNNY BELINDA. Previous SCC Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival honored productions include STREET SCENE, THE MATCHMAKER and 1940?S RADIO HOUR. Other local projects include directing Arizona Jewish Theatre Company?s award-winning COLLECTED STORIES; guest-artist appearances for The Arizona Women?s Theatre Company, Phoenix Theatre Festival of New Works; and serving as Host Critic for Talk Cinema. Her work has garnered awards from L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Drama-Logue, LA Weekly, LA Reader, Robby Awards, NY/LA Theatre Development Awards, Career Achievement and publication honors for more than one-hundred productions. She is a founder actor/director of Arizona Civic Theatre/Arizona Theatre Company, a member of ssdc Society of Stage Directors/Choreographers, AEA, SAG, AFTRA, ASCAP, WGA, WIT, numerous arts councils and is Artistic Director/Co-Founder of the time honored MEGAW Theatre/Actors Studio, Inc of CA/AZ

PAMELA FIELDS is a professional actor, director and educator. She was the Theatre Arts Director at Scottsdale Community College from 1975-2002, and her directing activities there earned extensive recognition. Award-winning productions included LADYHOUSE BLUES, BLUE WINDOW and the acclaimed WORKING, which enjoyed invitational performances at the Kennedy Center. Across her thirty-year academic career, Pam was active in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival at the national, regional and state levels. She earned three Kennedy Center Medals for Excellence in Theatre Education and invitational membership in the ACTF Fellows for Distinguished Service. Other awards: SCC Innovator of the Year for development of the Scottsdale Conservatory Theatre, currently operating as The Southwest Conservatory Theatre and accepting the Arizona Theatre Alliance ?Award of Excellence? on behalf of the Theatre Arts program (2002). Since retiring, Pam?s professional activities have afforded the opportunity to return to her first theatre love---acting! She most recently appeared in an award-winning turn as Big Mama in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF for Actors Theatre, followed by Phoenix Theatre?s MORNING?S AT SEVEN and TALKING WITH for the new Arizona Women?s Theatre Company. Other favorite roles include Dolly Levi in THE MATCHMAKER, Judith Bliss in HAY FEVER and Alma in MYSELF, ALMA MAHLER, her one-woman show that continues to tour to theatres and music festivals throughout the southwest. Pam currently teaches theatre classes as part of the Active Retirement program and is organizing a SCC Theatre Alumni organization.

RANDY MESSERSMITH has been an adjunct faculty member at SCC since 1990. He has taught a variety of courses in the Southwest Shakespeare Summer Conservatory since his relocation from New York to Arizona in 1990. He is celebrating his 10-year anniversary as the Theatre Arts Director and DMHS Players sponsor at Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, AZ. A professional actor, director and producer, Randy has worked extensively in the theatre on Off-Broadway, in regional theatres throughout the U.S. and Europe, and in film and television, including leading roles on THE YOUNG RIDERS and THE GUIDING LIGHT. Locally, Randy?s theatre projects include work as an actor and director for Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Phoenix Theatre, Arizona Jewish Theatre Company, Algonquin Theatre Co. and Theatre Works. A co-founder of the Southwest Shakespeare Company, he served as its Artistic Director for two years and his ariZoni award-winning productions include THE DINING ROOM, A WINTER'S TALE, ROMEO AND JULIET, and HENRY V. His 2003 production of THE ROAD TO MECCA earned six ariZoni awards. At SCC Randy has directed THE NERD, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE DINING ROOM, RAMSHACKLE INN and the ACTF Regional Finalist AS YOU LIKE IT. Randy is a member of Actor's Equity Association, AFTRA, Screen Actor's Guild, SSDC, the American Society of Fight Directors, TCG, and the NEA/AEA/SEA.

JO PIERCE has a BFA in Theatre Production and an MFA in Directing/Acting from the University of Arizona, and has taught theatre and communications courses at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Indiana University at South Bend, Sierra College in Rocklin, California and Glendale College here in Phoenix. She has also taught workshops and seminars at performing arts high schools, private acting studios, colleges and universities, and at ACTF regional festivals. Jo began her participation in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival as a student candidate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition. Since then she has been a production respondent in Regions III and VIII at over 30 different college campuses in five states (including SCC); also, a design respondent and Irene Ryan adjudicator at regional festivals. Favorite professional acting roles include Titania in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S EVE, Lady Bracknell in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, and Katty Foster in THE WAKE OF JAMIE FOSTER. Her most exciting and challenging directing job was as the staging director for a national tour of LA TRAVIATA for the San Francisco Opera Company in 1999.

MATT HILL is an actor, director, dramaturg and teacher. He earned his B.A. in Theatre from Arizona State University and is finishing his M.A. in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism from Brigham Young University. Matt is an alumni of the SCC Theatre Arts program. While here he was an active leader in ImageMakers, helmed a variety of production assignments and appeared in featured roles in THE BOYS NEXT DOOR and the award-winning AS YOU LIKE IT. He returned to SCC to serve as the Conservatory Director of the Southwest Shakespeare Conservatory in 2004 and as SSC faculty in 2005. For two years Matt also managed the Provo Theatre Company (Utah), a professional company that produces six shows a season. He identifies his current artistic focus as ?tending toward leveraging literary theory as a vehicle to enhance advanced acting pedagogy.?