Belfast Maskers – 2010
Board of Directors and Artistic Director

Katie Underhill, President, first became involved with the Maskers in 2008 when she was cast in the show Almost, Maine. Theater has always been an interest of hers and she considers herself lucky to have found this group to share it with. Katie graduated from Lock Haven University with a degree in Speech Communications and was a member of the honorary theater fraternity Alpha Psi Omega.  Katie is employed by athenahealth in Belfast where she works as an Operations Manger.  She resides in Camden with her 2 children John and Grace.

Penny Squibb, Secretary, is a graduate of Bennington College where she majored in dance. She has always been a supporter of both visual and performing arts. Before retiring to Belfast, Penny had the job of librarian and Associate Dean of Students at Storm King School in New York. Pen has won New England awards for her stitching which has been displayed in galleries and museums throughout the New England area. Working with Maskers gives her yet another interest to share with her husband.

Robin Jones, Vice President, recently moved to Stockton Springs from the DC Metro area in June with his family. His over 20 years of theatre experience has included acting, directing and writing plays and sketch shows in Houston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as working with some of the top young comedians of today. He has performed with Jeff (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wall-E) Garlin and Moon Zappa, as well as directing Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover, Up In The Air), Patton (King Of Queens, Ratatouille) Oswalt, Tom (Spongebob Squarepants) Kenny, Stephanie (Progressive Insurance) Courtney, and Adam (The Informant!, Hollywood Residential) Paul. Favorite roles include “Hero” in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and Macheath in The Threepenny Opera. Robin also founded (and was artistic director for five years) “Fake Radio”, a Los Angeles-based troupe of actors and comics dedicated to recreating old-time radio shows live onstage for which he stills consults on programming. At Maskers he has previously appeared in their successful production of The Mousetrap and is happy to continue his association in this new capacity.

Lilias Outerbridge, Board Member is a native of New York City where she and her husband lived for many years with their four children. A graduate of NYU and Bank Street School of Education, she taught elementary school in the City for 10 years. After the family moved to Rockport, ME in 1979, she became Special Education teacher at Hope Elementary School. Moving once again in 1986 to Belfast, she met recently retired Basil Burwell and his wife Nancy, and began her long involvement with Belfast Maskers. She has been on the Board for most of Maskers’ 23 years, has acted in many productions, and has been stage manager and producer too many times to count.

Pat Hustus, Board Member, is originally from Mississippi. After her husband, Ed, a pilot for Eastern Air Lines retired, they settled in Belfast, Ed’s home town, and ran a boat building business for 10 years. After retiring again, Ed now works part time at Hamilton Marine in Searsport, and Pat enjoys volunteer work, giving time and energy to Meals on Wheels, Belfast’s Park and Recreation Commission, the Chamber’s Visitor Center, and GreenStreets! as well as the Maskers. Between meetings and trips to the Y, she enjoys gardening, reading, bicycling, figuring out the computer and trying to stay with just 10 games of Free Cell at a time. Pat has been gathering props for the Maskers for 8 years and in the process has met some wonderful people within the acting community as well as merchants and individuals who gladly lend a prop or two

Nell Moore, Board Member, is an artist who has been an amateur (in the best sense of the word) of college and community theater since she was a student at McGill University, where she fell in love with costumes. A dozen years later when she lived in New York, she completed a professional course in costume design and construction. It wasn’t until 1990, after more than a decade of studying and practicing architecture in New York, Boston, and Camden, Maine that she began her career with the Belfast Maskers as a set designer. She joined the Maskers’ Board soon after that, and served until 2005. She rejoined this year.  Since moving to Maine in 1984 she has served on the Planning Board of Northport, been President of Artfellows’ cooperative gallery in Belfast, and currently serves on the Belfast Planning Board’s Intown Design Review Committee.
Nell believes that Theatre, along with poetry, dance, music, and the visual arts, is a vital ingredient in the life of a community. Theatre is the one place where all the arts can and must be practiced collaboratively, not only encouraging and nurturing creativity in the participants, but fostering community spirit and educating actors, crew, and audience.

Matt McDonald, Board Member, holds a degree in Theology. A native of Maine, Matt was involved in theater in both high school and college and a community theater in Bangor. He is currently serving  as a minister at a local church in the community of Belfast. He is married to Linnea Flanzala and together they have one son.

Aynne Ames, Artistic and Managing Director After co-founding and managing for over 20 years Castine’s Cold Comfort Summer Theater and Cold Comfort Theater Camp, Aynne returned to college where she finished her BA in Theater with a minor in Classical Studies. The following fall (1993) she attended a one-year program at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, working on her Master’s Degree. That one year turned into five. Although she came home summers, she returned to Athens every fall to teach at the TASIS International School and continue her studies in Ancient Theater. Along with her work in Greece she also worked in England through the TASIS School there which gave her an opportunity to do some on site work in Elizabethan Theater.
Aynne has been the recipient of many awards including the prestigious Educational Impact Award from the Helen Hayes organization which acknowledged her outstanding contributions in educating and nurturing youth through theater. She has served on the Maine Arts Council, as an Adjudicator for High School and College Theater Competitions, and as the Maine State Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Next to her family, Aynne loves theater best and continues to take great pleasure in working as Artistic Director of Belfast Maskers.