Alan B Collier is a 7th-8th generation Latter-day Saint who grew up in Western North Carolina as the fifth of ten children. He served a mission in Arizona and Mexico. Alan graduated BYU-Provo in Construction Management.  In his career, Alan worked almost 20 years for one of the Intermountain West’s largest contractors and then equally as long as the owner of a general contracting firm.  His first exposure to church construction began as a deacon listening to a brother talk about building the first branch meetinghouse in western NC.  Alan has since been associated with hundreds of new builds, remodels, and maintenance projects for The Church across North America, including projects as large as the Conference Center and as simple as repairing a carpet run in a local meetinghouse.  He has contracted with Church Meetinghouse Facilities, Special Projects, Seminaries, Welfare, Priesthood, as well as with private equity divisions of The Church.

Alan also serves on a various non-profit boards, manager at several running events, and is vice president of his homeowner association.  He was a chaplain for The Church at the 2010 and 2013 National Jamborees.  Alan currently serves on the Mesa Temple Events Committee and in his spare time is a hiker, kayaker and cyclist.

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Cynthia Collier grew up in Salt Lake City in a family that enjoyed the performing arts. She studied philosophy, English, and music at Brigham Young University, and has taught music and theater in schools. Over the past 25 years she has been involved in writing and directing live productions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including Savior of the World at the Conference Center Theater in Salt Lake City, and the Nauvoo and British pageants in Nauvoo, Illinois. She has served in the Church as a teacher, in various music callings, and in presidencies in wards and stakes. She most recently served with her husband as a branch minister at the University of Utah and Huntsman Hospitals in Salt Lake City. She is married to Eric Collier and is a mother and grandmother.

The pageants are filled with authentic hymns and folksongs, lively dances, and tender moments that share the joy these early Church members found in living Christ’s gospel. Through words taken from journals, sermons, and historic records of the period, the pageants invite all to feel the powerful testimonies of these faithful Christians.

The Nauvoo Pageant is Narrated by Parley P. Pratt and emphasizes the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith and honors the sacrifice, faith and courage of the Saints who gave their all to build a city and a temple to their God. See a video Glimpse of the Nauvoo Pageant.

The British Pageant is Narrated by a character named Arthur Ashton and it explores events surrounding the beginning of the Church in the British Isles and the impact of the British members’ abiding faith and deep love for one another and the Savior. See a video Glimpse of the British Pageant.

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The only woman mentioned by name in the Doctrine and Covenants besides Emma Smith, Vienna lived a simple yet extraordinary life. From her conversion in Boston to her role in the first baptisms for the dead and on into the settlement of Salt Lake City, Vienna played an important part in the growth of the Church during the nineteenth century witnessing many significant moments in church history. Historian Brent M. Rogers shows through meticulous research Vienna’s journey as a single woman within the early Church, detailing the unsung life of this little-known but remarkable woman.

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Brent M. Rogers is a historian and documentary editor for The Joseph Smith Papers. He earned a BA with honors in history from San Diego State University, an MA in public history from California State University, Sacramento, and a PhD with emphasis in nineteenth-century United States history from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Brent is the author of “A ‘distinction between Mormons and Americans’: Mormon Indian Missionaries, Federal Indian Policy, and the Utah War,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 82.4 (Fall 2014): 250-271, which won the Western History Association’s 2015 Arrington-Prucha Prize for Best Article on the History of Religion in the West.

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