CAST Executive Director

Cathy "Kate" Stallings is the driving force behind CAST. She has performed and directed with groups in all levels of theatre, including professional, educational, and community.

Ms. Stallings' directing credits include Foxfire and numerous youth productions for The Temple Theatre in Sanford, NC; onboard Director/Choreographer of all productions on the Mississippi Queen Steamboat; Seussical, Into the Woods, High School Musical, Quilters, Steel Magnolias, Shenandoah, and an ongoing list of credits with CAST; The Secret Garden, and NCTC award-winning productions of The Shadowbox and Quilters with Foothills Performing Arts; Over the River & Through the Woods with The Green Room Theatre; To Kill a Mockingbird, Oliver!, and Annie with Hickory Community Theatre.

As an actress, you may have seen

Ms. Stallings as "The Duty Nurse" in the blockbuster film, The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford (IMDb). 

Onstage her credits are way too many to mention but select credits include Glorie in Grace & Glorie, Rhetta in Pump Boys & Dinettes at The Temple Theatre;

Connie in 1940's Radio Hour and Chelsea in On Golden Pond, and Daylight Spirits with Blowing Rock Stage Company; The Doctor in Spite of Himself with the NC Theatre in Raleigh; A Christmas Carol with the NC Shakespeare Festival; and Dr. Mary Martin Sloop in Miracle on the Mountain in Crossnore, NC.

CAST Assistant Director 

Cyndi Whittaker  has directed over 20 productions, most notably Junie B. Jones and A Little Monkey Business. Although her background is in Nursing, Cyndi now devotes her time and her passion for Theatre to CAST. When she is not putting in countless hours at CAST, Cyndi is a 4-H leader, a homeschooling mother of four, and a proud Grandma. Her husband is CAST volunteer Bob Whittaker, who Cyndi calls "the most patient man in the world."

As an actress, area audiences have seen Cyndi at the Green Room Theatre in Newton in Lost in Yonkers and Little Women; at Hickory Community Theatre in To Kill a Mockingbird; and at CAST in Annie, Steel Magnolias, and Quilters.