DONNIE BAILLARGEON - DIRECTOR: A graduate of Bridgewater University with a BA in Communications and Theater, Donnie spent many of his earlier decades as a performer on stages at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, The Century City Playhouse in Los Angeles, CA, The King Richard’s Faire in Carver, MA, the NETC National Theater competition on Spokane, WA, and multiple groups in the Boston and metro-West area. With two partners, he was co-author of a mystery comedy, “Murdering the Mob,” which ran in Boston’s Theater District for a year and a half in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Having served as producer and production photographer for numerous productions at Beatrice Herford’s Vokes Theatre in Wayland, Donnie continues to satiate his passion in many aspects of theater production, by working as a stage director. In the past 20 years he has staged musical and non-musical productions for Hovey Players, Concord Players, Acme Theatre Productions, with the most productions tallied at his home base - Vokes Theatre in Wayland. A few years ago, Donnie heeded an inner calling as a set designer creating set designs for the stages of Hovey Players’ and Vokes Players’ productions. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Beatrice Herford’s Vokes Theatre as Vice President and serves as Membership Director for Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres (EMACT). Donnie and his husband, David Berti, currently reside in Marlborough.

CINDY BELL - ACTOR is pleased to get a chance to participate in this fun adventure.  She has worked in some aspect of theater since she was in 4th grade and wrote her own plays for her classmates to perform and watch.  She always made sure to cast herself in the largest parts.  Cindy has been an actor, director, teacher and writer for theatrical endeavors.  She has an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson.  Favorite plays have included Looking (Val), Enchanted April (Lotty Wilton), Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown), Be Here Now (Bari) and Other Desert Cities (Polly Wyeth).  In her other life, Cindy is a clinical social worker, a mother, a traveler and a gardener.  She loves her dog, walking in the woods and playing board games.  

MARK BRANSON - ACTOR is an actor, stand-up comic, and musician. Favorite roles include Speed in Curtain Call Theatre’s production of The Odd Couple and Juror #3 in Liberty Production’s 12 Angry Men. Mark has also had other acting roles working with Arlington Friends of the Drama, JakespeareVTC, and Gilbert Entertainment. When he’s not acting Mark can be seen performing standup comedy around New England and was recently accepted as a performer in the 2023 Portland Maine Comedy Festival.

ANNE DAMON - ACTOR  Anne is delighted to be making her debut with Senior Smilez this season.  Over the years, Anne has worked at many area theatre companies (including the Vokes Players, Arlington Friends, Hovey Players, Quannapowitt Players, Concord Players, Acme Theatre Company, the Footlight Club, and the Firehouse Center in Newburyport), in a long list of productions such as Murder on the Orient Express, Harvey, Morning’s at Seven, Ripcord, Silent Sky, Noises Off, Doubt, Radium Girls, Moonlight & Magnolias, Wonder of The World, Present Laughter, Dinner With Friends, Arcadia, Auntie Mame, Six Degrees of Separation, Uncle Vanya, Jake’s Women, and Dancing at Lughnasa, among others.  She has been honored with many nominations and several awards from EMACT (the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres) for her work as an actor, producer, and set dressing/props designer, and was recently a grateful recipient of EMACT’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

PHIL DOHERTY - ACTOR has been involved in community theater for twenty years, performing in musicals and plays equally enthusiastically. From Juror 3 (the bad guy) in "Twelve Angry Men" to singing as Jean Valjean (the good guy) in musical review. From Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" to Albert Peterson in "Bye Bye Birdie." It has all been enormously enjoyable, and he's been lucky to have met his amazing wife, Nancy, and so many good friends over the years. Winnie the Pooh said it so well: "We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun."

STEVE LILLIS - ACTOR has worked in community, professional, dinner theater for many years in the Greater Boston area.  Favorite roles include Tevye  in “Fiddler on the Roof”, The Lion in “The Wizard of Oz” and Ben Franklin in “1776”, Horace Vandegelder  in “Hello Dolly”. Most recently Steve appeared as Igor in “Young Frankenstein” at Enter Stage Left Theater in Hopkington. Steve worked as a Singing Waiter and in many Murder Mystery Dinner Theaters. He also performed as “The King” in a Medieval English Dinner Theater.  Steve lives in Framingham with his wife Kathy.

NANCY JANE MURPHY - ACTOR was a relative late-comer to theater, cutting her teeth as Truvy in Steel Magnolias in her early 40s. Some favorite roles include Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (where she garnered a Best Actress nomination from EMACT), Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Dolly in Hello Dolly and Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. She met her husband, Phil Doherty, on the stage and relishes the opportunity to work and play with him on stage.

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LARRY UCHILL - ACTOR is a skilled capital markets lawyer with over 50 years of experience in the full range of complex and sophisticated real estate work.  Mr. Uchill is an adjunct law professor, teaching Securitization at Boston University’s Morin School of Banking since 1996; and a former shareholder at DLA Piper LLP and Brown Rudnick LLP. Mr. Uchill is also the President of the Massachusetts Future Problem Solving Program, a Section 501©(3) limited liability company which was formed to help students in Massachusetts develop and use creative thinking skills.