Castle Hill Theatre Company

Mari Andrejco
Hermes the Crow

Mari Andrejco graduated from Temple University with a BA in theatre and went on to study acting with the greatly respected teacher Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Over the past three decades, Mari has worked as an actor, teaching artist, director and producer. She has performed on public television as Queen Elizabeth I and Susan B. Anthony.

Mari and her daughter WindRose Morris co-founded the Pleiades Company whose Once Upon a World, Call it Shakespeare and living biographies of Emily Dickinson and the painter Georgia O'Keefe were presented in New York State through the Lincoln Center Network of Arts in Education. She achieved great acclaim as Emily Dickinson. Mari as a member of Triple Shadow, a multi-disciplined theatre company, has toured Italy and throughout the northeast as well as recently performing in Alice: the End of Daze at LA MaMa in New York City.

Natalia Bystrianyk
Gilda and Golda

Natalia Bystrianyk has a BA in theatre from Roger Williams College, and has been involved in a great deal of dramatic, musical and commercial work. Some of her favorite roles include: Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Masha in Three Sisters, Roberta in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Cherie in Bus Stop.

Aside from her life on stage, Natalia is also a free-lance artist, singer and proud mother of two girls, Miranda and Fionna. She is very much looking forward to performing together with her daughter Miranda in Berkshire Theatre Festival's upcoming production of Oliver.

Mark Hohlstein
Jack's mother; the Bean Salesman

Mark Hohlstein is an actor, artist and a clown. He was recently seen in Castle Hill Theatre Company's production of Tatterhood, where he also designed the sets and masks. Mark studied clowning at Shakespeare & Company and at Simon's Rock College.

Local audiences have seen his clown "Donut" at Mixed Company in Ten Minutes in the Berkshires. Mark has also performed at Workshop Playhouse in Beyond Therapy, Flop Cop, and Three One Act Plays by David Ives and Adult Comedies by Shel Silverstein, and at Simon's Rock in Cloud Nine. In addition, Mark has appeared in two films, We The People and Candy.

Andrew Joffe
Hunfrid, the Giant

Andrew Joffe most recently appeared in Tatterhood. Before that he was seen in CHTC's productions of Feathertop, Rumpelstiltskin, and Puss in Boots.

Additionally, he performed in The Original Last Wish Baby, Signs of Life, Radio Paramus, and An Evening with David Ives at the Workshop Playhouse; Wasserstein, Sin, and Sylvia with the Aglet Theatre Company; A Tuna Christmas, Lone Star and Where the Albatross Flies with the Copake Theatre Company; An Afternoon with I.B. Singer at Ansche Emeth; The Time of Your Life at the Ghent Playhouse; in staged readings of Conrad Bromberg's Dreams of a Blacklisted Actor and Gymboyz, and in Martha Humphries' To Whom God Speaks at Triarts; and with the variety show Saturday Night Live, as well as performing one-man readings of the works of Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jean Shepherd.

Vashti Poor
Jack

Vashti Poor is thrilled to be working with all her Castle Hill friends again! Her credits include Galatea and Sylvia with Aglet Theatre Company, Beyond Therapy at the Workshop Playhouse, Proof at the Main Street Stage, Eleemosynary at the Barrington Stage Company, and of course Rumplestiltskin with the Castle Hill Theatre Company.

Vashti is a graduate of the Circle in the Square Theatre Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and has studied acting with Alan Langdon, with Caymichael Patten, and at Black Nexxus. She studies guitar (and some ukulele) with Rob Sanzone. Vashti would like to thank her family and friends, as well as her dog and cats and sheep, for their love and support. You rock!

Anne Undeland
Olympia, the Giantress

Anne Undeland has been a performer in and around the East Coast for the last fifteen years. Most recently, she was seen in the role of the Queen in Tatterhood. She has performed three one–woman shows, Fanny Kemble's Lenox Address, Xingu (from the Edith Wharton short story), and The Belle of Amherst, all at Ventfort Hall in collaboration with Shakespeare and Company.

Anne has worked with Mixed Company, Main Street Stage, Theater 37, Barrington Stage, Capital Rep and Stageworks, and has been featured in a number of plays for BBC Radio. A children's entertainer and puppeteer for many years, she has played any number of talking animal, spunky heroine and hapless villain roles.