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Mary Miller

Mary Miller (President)
Mary is delighted to be serving on the board of Star Bar Players.  She views this theatre company as a vital link in making performing arts accessible and affordable to every member of the community.  A Colorado Springs resident since 1989, her theatre experience crosses thirty years and includes time spent on stage, back stage, directing and producing.  She has a strong organizational management background from the US Army and the private sector and is excited to be using those tools to help the Board launch the exciting plans they have for this phenomenal theatre company.

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Palyn Peterson (Treasurer)
Palyn Peterson has lived in Colorado Springs for nearly 20 years, and dearly loves this growing city. He is proud to be a member of such a fine group as the Star Bar Players and playing a supporting role for all of the arts community.

His wife, Jillmarie, is the costumer for the Star Bar Players. After the previous treasurer stepped down, Palyn quickly volunteered to fill the position, joining his wife Jillmarie on the board.

Palyn owns and operates a local computer repair business, as well as a number of successful internet businesses.

Mark Hennessy

Mark Hennessy (Artistic Director)
Mark was born in Connecticut 27 to 49 years ago (depending upon the role), but by the age of four had left the Nutmeg state and was raised in the suburbs of New York City……..(dramatic pause)……in the shadow of Broadway. Upon graduation from Binghamton University with a degree in Theatre, he moved to San Francisco for graduate studies at the American Conservatory Theatre. After having spent several years working in the world of professional theatre, and armed with an education as a classical repertory actor, he did what any young actor would do…he chucked it all and moved to Los Angeles to work in the movies.

Mark spent a dozen years in LA, and as for his rumored Hollywood career, suffice it to say that after several years of toiling in movies, TV and commercials, it all added up to a resume of staggering inconsequence. In 1996, tired of the business of Hollywood, and looking for a new start, Mark's wife forced him to move to Colorado Springs. Make that ex-wife. And it's a good thing she did, too. Forced him to move, that is.

Since moving to the Springs, Mark has worked on over 40 plays as an actor, director, producer or lighting designer, as well 15 radio plays for the KCME Radio Theatre. Mark served as the President of the Star Bar Players from 2000-03, and has been the Artistic Director since the fall of 2003. He has been fortunate to perform for every theater in Colorado Springs, has been nominated twice for PAPAS Awards in Acting, and was named Best Actor in the Gazette's Best of the Springs 2002.

During the few hours in which Mark is not working in theater, he teaches history at Community Prep School, a charter high school in downtown Colorado Springs. Given the large number of evildoers Mark has played on stage over the last few years (A Few Good Men, Damn Yankees, King Lear, The Foreigner), he finds it necessary to constantly remind his students that he is simply cast against type. They're not buying it.

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Beth Clements

In Loving Memory of Star Bar veteran Jeff Kelly May 12, 1965 - December 1, 2004: www.geocities.com/rememberingjeffkelly An Amazing and Improbable Life - Suicide is less an act than a tale of the soul.Beth Clements (Media/Marketing/Graphic Design)
Star Bar's webmistress, media maven and unofficial historian came to SBP first in 1990 as Sissy (the younger) in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Since then she has been lucky enough to play some great roles here, including Maggie in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Gwendolyn Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest and Tansy in Larry Shue's The Nerd. More recent projects include Cherie in 2003's Bus Stop, Ten Little Indians, which she directed in 2004, and her latest appearance as Beth (go figure) in Dinner With Friends.

David Plambeck

David Plambeck (Business Initiatives)
Dave has been performing in one way or another since he was seventeen.  His first job out of high school was in an old-west-themed amusement park in San Jose, California, where, after a stint as a tour guide perched at the bow of a twenty-foot canoe, he became The Bad Guy, and was killed about 200 times. 

He also performed with various community groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, participated in staged readings, and worked as an actor and director with an independent film group in Cupertino.  

Plam moved to Colorado Springs in 1986 and, after a chance meeting with the late Judy McClow, read for and was cast as Mr. McLeavy in Joe Orton's Loot. Since then, he has appeared in a number of productions for Star Bar, the PPCC Masquers and UCCS/Theatreworks, and has directed shows for Star Bar and the Upstart Performing Ensemble.

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Jillmarie Peterson

Jillmarie Peterson (Costumes/Props/Sales/etcetera, etcetera, etcetera)
Jillmarie has been involved with theater in one way or another since childhood. She has appeared on stage in eighteen productions for seven different theaters, and provided tech support for them and others in the 80’s and 90’s. Her last on-stage appearance was as Pat in A Late Snow with Upstart Performing Ensemble here in Colorado Springs in 1997. Jillmarie started costuming productions while filling in last minute for a costumer who broke her hand and couldn't sew. She had never used a sewing machine before, but followed directions well and fell in love with the craft.

As Head Costumer for Yokosuka Little Theatre Group in Japan, Jillmarie costumed 27 productions from 1990-1995. She won five FEATAs (Far East American Theatre Awards) for costuming The Lion in Winter, When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet, Annie, Play On! and PEANUTS. Jillmarie also won a FEATA for Best Supporting Actress as Alais in The Lion in Winter. She loves to act, but says, “When I’m on stage, I get to strut my stuff; when I costume a show, EVERYONE struts my stuff!”

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