Pioneer Theatre Company's managing director resigns, and reaches a settlement with the University of Utah.

In June, I wrote about Christopher Massimine, who was hired in 2019 to be managing director of Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah’s largest professional theater company. The subject was Massimine’s resumé and biography, which were riddled with fabrications and exaggerations — including claiming to win awards that didn’t exist, and credit for work on movies and video games with which he was not involved.

(Adam Herbets at Fox13 did the first investigative reporting about Massimine, and I added to it here. The day he issued his resignation letter, The New York Times wrote it own story about Massimine.)

After behind-the-scenes legal wrangling, Massimine resigned from Pioneer Theatre in mid-August. I wrote about the resignation, and the $175,000 settlement he made with the University of Utah that prompted that resignation, both for sltrib.com.