Cat Tales - About Us

Production Staff

Eugene Warner Producer and Director

Theatre Professional and recently retired Associate Professor and Teacher with Off-Broadway, regional, community and educational credits. He is a member of United Scenic Artists, local 829. He holds an MFA from the Yale Drama School majoring in Design with a minor in Directing and Theatre Administration.

Alex Rosiewicz Music Director and Sound

Composer, guitarist and pianist performing Classical, Folk, Celtic, and related music. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland he studied Physics and became a full-time engineer starting his career in England where he continued to expand his repertoire to include ragtime, blues and English folk music. Living and working in the USA for ~40 years he has soaked up elements of Americana, Bluegrass etc. Now in “semi-retirement” he has much more time to attend workshops, open mics and play gigs in the New England area. He is delighted to have the opportunity to plunge into this new and fun challenge.

Mark Lindberg Dramaturge and Directing Consultant

Theatre Professional and recently retired from 35+ years career as Head of Drama Program at Buckingham, Browne and Nichols High School teaching acting and directing. He is a Stage Director of more than 100 productions for professional and educational theatre. Former Head of the Art Department for 19 years at BB&N. Script consultant for professional theatre. MFA Smith College.

Mary McCary Assistant Director

Mary’s first experience stage managing started a lifelong fascination with the stage. For 39 years she taught high school English and Theatre in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she directed over 120 plays, operettas, and musicals. Mary even performed (once!!) in a student/faculty production of The Mikado. “It was terrifying,” she confesses. Taking all the sets, costumes, and instruments, Mary took productions of cast/crew/orchestra students to England four times in an exchange program, spending 10 days each time in the homes of British counterparts, attending classes, touring, and presenting shows in a professional theatre. Grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities provided Mary the chance to study in the summers. The goal of one intense program was to read everything Geoffrey Chaucer could have read. Another offered the chance to study Shakespeare at Oxford University in the U.K., courtesy of the English Speaking Union. In retirement Mary tries to keep up with many former students, actors and dancers who have been on Broadway, actors in movies and television, actors who perform constantly in DC, LA, and Chicago, actors who perform wherever they can, opera singers, improv artists, filmmakers, choreographers, a director in a feminist theatre company, a Broadway producer, and a Tony award-winning director. Mary once lived in a tent for a summer through five hurricanes and has sailed the entire Chesapeake Bay. She became a mahjong enthusiast in retirement.

Margaret Ann Gray Production Coordinator

Margaret Ann is a management specialist retired from a 27-year career at MIT where she created and facilitated leadership development programs. Prior to moving to Massachusetts, she directed the training function for Beech Aircraft Corporation and taught management and marketing courses at Wichita State University. She has a BSEd and an MBA.

Jan Peters Costumer

My “career” in theater started as a mermaid in a 5th grade musical. Pinocchio. The group of us actually appeared in a noon time Syracuse, NY, TV show! I quickly learned that backstage was where I belonged. Organizing elementary classroom Assemblies, Advising a Middle School Drama Club and helping with HS Musicals while wearing chains of safety pins and an array of pre- threaded needles, listening for teenage pleas of “Mrs. P-E-T-E-R-S”

Sandy Green Jewelry

Sandy moved east from Montana after many years in the mountains. She has no background in theater as such but enjoys anything crafty and artistic. She makes jewelry, sews, quilts, etc. Her major and minor degrees in college were Applied Arts and Telecommunications. She appreciates the fun and enjoys making interesting contributions to a production without actually speaking a line. She believes it's always good to learn something new: even creating necklaces from fake rocks, bear claws and ping-pong balls.

CAST

MAN ….. David Bearg

50 years ago he performed with the Revels in Sanders Theater. In addition to being cast as Room in The Mummers Play, he also performed as a puppeteer manipulating John BarleyCorn. This was under the direction of Claude Roche-Fogarty and his Black Wheat Theater. He is so glad to be revisiting this part of my past. After earning a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Environmental Health his activities alternated between helping clients achieve healthy indoor environments and creating a healthy and energy efficient home for my family. His and his wife, Kate D. Blair, owned property in Concord, MA which was sold during the summer of 2022 and he is now attempting to reinvent himself again.

WOMAN …..Kate D. Blair

Kate Blair was born and raised in Middlebury Vermont, where her father founded The Vermont Book Shop. She received her Diploma in Theater Arts from the Wykeham Rise School for Girls in Connecticut, and her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Boston University. After toiling in bookshops in Cambridge and Boston, she earned her Certificate of Medical Assisting from the Bryman School, and in 1983 created with two women partners an occupational health consulting business, Health Research Associates. In 2021, Kate’s historical novel, The Hawthorne Inheritance, was published by Sunbury Press. She resides with her husband and their cat Pepper in Watertown, Massachusetts. Please visit her website, https://www.the-hawthorne-inheritance.com/ for more information.

CAT…. Jan Hales

Jan is the proud mother of four and grandmother of seven; people she would like even if they weren't hers. She is forever grateful to have had experience of living in Switzerland and Germany for ten years with her growing family. A retired RN she worked in several different specialties from the operating room to psychiatry. Needing to keep busy while grieving the loss of her husband of fifty-one years she decided to do something way outside her "comfort zone" and joined this production. A theater novice for sure but being "up close and personal" with this process has her hooked. She is thankful for her family, friends and all those involved with this production for supporting her through this learning process.

COW….. Sally Kindleberger

Sally has loved acting since she was 8 years old and staged Amahl and the Night Visitors with her friends. She got to play the title role, not because she could sing, but because she had a recorder, which she didn’t know how to play. Sally taught young children for over 37 years while also running after school acting/improvisation workshops for children and directing productions. For at least 20 years she was actively involved as an actress at The Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston. She's been in summer stock with Peterborough Players and other companies. Since retiring her focus has turned to extra work in the movies and recently she had a small speaking part as Doris, the secretary, film About Fate. If you look hard enough you can see her in the award winning movie The Holdovers and in Challengers (the tennis movie with Zendaya)

NARRATOR ..... Mark Lindberg

3rd grade, 1956, Keith School, Brockton, Mass, "The Emperor has no clothes on", was Mark's first (and only) line, first venture into the world of onstage storytelling. After almost fifty years as a high school drama teacher, he's happy to have returned to onstage storytelling, happy to have a few more lines.

TAIL….. Diane Markowitz

Diane’s first love was the theater, majoring in drama at Tufts University. But she took a couple of detours to become a dentist and then a professor of anthropology. In retirement, she returned to theater as a hobby, playing Martha Gillette in Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays” at The Center for the Arts in Natick. Her favorite hobby, though, is caring for her four grandchildren.

HORSE, BAT and MOUSE….. Nancy Sullivan

Nancy has never played a horse (or a sheep, bat, mouse) before this challenge, but it's been fun! Her experience in community theater began in Groton, MA, in the 70's and continued in Holliston for a few more years. It was a great outlet while raising kids and working. Now retired - and 12 grandkids later - it's time, she reports, to saddle up again. They say learning a new language keeps you young. She hopes that includes neighing and squeaking.

DOG…… Robin Urquhart

When food came "off the ration" in Scotland, she was 11, and her parents bought their first fridge. The box it came in was perfect for a puppet theater. To make the paper maché for the puppets, she and her parents trampled soaking newspaper in the bath-tub and mixed it into a sticky grey paste with a flour and water gruel. Her father helped with the princess (golden hair) and her sister and she made the witch, the prince, the dog, the horse, the crocodile, the cowboy and the ghost. Also the backdrops, the curtains, the props and the script. Her performances were well received – by the family, but also by some younger classes at school. This was her first triumph in the theater. Her second was some 30 years later in Spanish, in Venezuela, where she played the maid in a dinner-theater production. Now she hass jumped country once again and hopes to continue her theatrical career in the US.