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 Thunder Bay Ensemble, a multi-disciplined theatre company, has toured Italy and throughout the northeast as well as performed at LA MaMa and Theatre for a New City.

This marks Rudi’s third show with CHTC, but the first one in which he is in front of the lights. Previously, he operated the sound and lighting boards for Rumpelstiltskin and Feathertop. CHTC is delighted to have him as an actor for this production.

Other recent performances of Rudi’s include: Susan Lori Parks’ 360 at the Berkshire Fringe Festival; Cosi fan Tuti at Tanglewood; Joan Ackerman's In Light of Jane at Mixed Company.

Rudi drums samba with Berkshire Bateria, performs at spoken word happenings, and is working with a young artist to create an anti-racism program for local schools.

Mark Hohlstein is an actor, artist and a clown. Castle Hill Theatre Company is pleased to welcome Mark as their set designer, maskmaker and actor in Tatterhood. 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.

He 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 most recently appeared in A Marvelous Party at the Triplex. 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.

This marks Karen’s third production with CHTC, having starred in Rumpelstiltskin and Puss in Boots earlier. Recently audiences saw her at The Triplex, where she was a member of the Script Teasers’s show A Marvelous Party. She was also seen locally in the role of Madame Brighella in Shakespeare & Company’s production of The Servant of Two Masters directed by Dan McCleary and at Mixed Company in Sylvia and Marcus is Walking.

Karen has worked in theatres all over New York and all over the country, including the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Walt Disney, and many others. She has appeared on television, in film, and has been featured three times for award-winning BBC radio plays by Gregory Whitehead.

She is the owner of Pilates Central in Lenox and Great Barrington, a studio dedicated to the gift of movement. She is the mother of two magical angels, Max, 12, and Sam, 10 and will be debuting a cabaret show this spring at the Triplex.

Judith Pieschel was most recently seen in the role of Mother Rigby in Castle Hill Theatre Company’s fall adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Feathertop. Before that she created the part of The Duchess in Puss In Boots for CHTC.

Other selected stage credits include the roles of:  Mrs. Alving in Ibsen’s Ghosts, the role of Evie in Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of a Bird and as Chris Collins in Michael Brady’s Hard Time — all at Main Street Stage in North Adams; Yentl in An Afternoon with Isaac Bashevis Singer at Anshe Emeth; Sharon in The Philadelphia, and Kafka in Words, Words, Words by David Ives at The Workshop Playhouse; Anna Trumbull in A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer at The Actors Center, and Women Creating Women Creating, a women’s collaboration of solo works in St. Louis.

Carrie graduated from Manhattanville College, a double major in Theatre and English, and completed an internship with Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City before returning to her Berkshire County roots. This is Carrie’s second production with Castle Hill Theatre Company. She played Polly Gookin in last fall’s adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Feathertop.

Other local production credits include the Berkshire Fringe Festival; Talking With at the Aglet Theatre Company; In Season at Mixed Company; and Speed the Plow at the Workshop Playhouse. Off stage, Carrie is WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief and a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Berkshire Living Magazine and the Berkshire Eagle, among other publications.

Anne Undeland has been a performer in and around the East Coast for the last fifteen years.  Most recently, 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.

She 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.