Mark Hohlstein has designed and painted several sets, including a recent school production of Alice in Wonderland, in which the painted backdrops were used afterwards as a window display in a Lenox Shop and another one went to a Northampton Shop window. Mark designed and painted the set for An Evening of Shel Silverstein at Workshop Playhouse. He also made the mask for the Shel Silverstein production.

Mark attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where he studied animation, drawing, welding and painting.

Andrew Joffe recently had two one-act plays, which he adapted, open in New York City at the Workshop Theatre: Gift of the Magi and The Blue Carbuncle. This is his third collaboration with Ms. Wilson, the other two being Rumpelstiltskin and Feathertop.

Andrew has written radio shows for NPR: Visit New Grimston, Anyway and Jazz Play. He was the librettist for Beast and Superbeast, The Awakening and Medea in Exile. He has directed Threepennny Opera, The Medium, The Mikado and many world premiere operas.

This is Tom’s second show building the set for CHTC. In the previous show Feathertop he built an aesthetically pleasing and multifunctional set which delighted the cast.

Tom moved to the Berkshire area two years ago from Torrington, Connecticut where he worked in various capacities at the Warner Theater there. Before that he lived in Portland, Oregon and built the doors for a CBS Series called Under Suspicion.

Tom is a Master Carpenter and CHTC feels blessed to have his talent and skills.

Peggy Reeves has given an invaluable contribution of creativity to CHTC. Besides being the theatre company's photographer, Peggy helps by making props, painting sets, and coming up with answers to questions before they are asked.

An artist in her own right, her love of photography has brought her to explore all aspects of the art form. Her work ranges from primitive pinhole photography to the making of digital images. Peggy has had solo and group shows of her work and it can be seen in private collections, as well as, in the collection of the Berkshire Museum. Tel# 413-528-2446 Email: pearl465@gmail.com

Maia Robbins-Zust is well known to local theatres for her lighting design and is currently the technical director of Williams College Theatre Department.

Her company Berkshire Production Resources does among other things: stage lighting, scenic construction and special effects. Maia is a member of the Robbins-Zust Marionette Theatre, which has delighted Berkshire children for many years.

Amanda Sewall spends her summers as a landscaper and as head propagator at Project Native and in the winter months applies her love of color, form and texture to the world of clothing and costume design.

Tatterhood is the first large scale theater undertaking of her career, but with twenty years of sewing, design and handcraft behind her, she is relishing in the creativity of merging fairy tale with form.

A Great Barrington resident of four years, Amanda lives with her partner Mark Hohlstein and is pregnant with their first child.

Nicki has worked over the years in all phases of the theatre. Two of the plays she wrote were produced in NYC: The Chameleon Echo and The Nesting. This is her third collaboration with Mr. Joffe, the other two being Rumpelstiltskin and Feathertop. She also directed those two productions plus Puss in Boots for CHTC.

In addition, she directed the Persian Sufi play The Tree Climber at the 18th Street Theatre in NYC, Dear Brutus by James M. Barrie and What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney.

Nicki has written feature articles for the area newspapers, and Berkshire County Cable TV audiences may have seen her talk show where she interviewed artists, writers, and activists.

She is deeply grateful to the actors and the creative team for all their help and enthusiasm to bring quality family theatre to the area.

Jose Garcia is a landscape and nature photographer and a digital artist. He creates painterly images inspired by American and European landscape paintings. A gallery of his work can be seen at www.looktotheland.com.

Jose has also worked as an ecologist and furniture maker, and his long career was as a software research engineer and manager. He leads nature walks and seminars throughout the Berkshire/Taconic landscape, and his heroes include Henry David Thoreau, Mary Oliver, and Wendell Berry.