Sarah Reny

Founder & Artistic Director

 

​Sarah (she/her) is a classical actor, audiobook narrator, and arts leader committed to bringing professional, accessible arts programming to rural and underserved communities.

As the Founding Artistic Director of Catskill Mountain Shakespeare, she has established a vibrant cultural presence in the Northern Catskills, producing high-caliber classical theater that is both locally rooted and nationally recognized. The 2025 season—featuring Pericles and Romeo and Juliet—was the company’s most successful yet, drawing record-breaking audiences in the midst of economic and political uncertainty. Sarah is also the narrator of Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza, a national bestseller released by Penguin Random House in 2025. With more than 40 audiobooks to her name, she is known for her emotional range, distinctive character work, and versatility across genres. Originally from Montreal, Sarah trained in the UK and holds an MA in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Her early producing work at Queen’s University doubled the audience base for its largest Shakespeare company and increased the annual budget by 50%. Since then, she has worked across London, New York City, and the Hudson Valley as both performer and producer, championing the idea that great theater belongs to everyone. Sarah consults with regional arts organizations on artistic development, community engagement, and equitable practice. She splits her time between Brooklyn and her home in West Kill, NY.​

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Frank Wildermann

Managing Director

 

Frank (he/him) has been spending time in the Catskills since he was a boy. His farm in Prattsville, NY has been in his family for 4 generations. As a former actor, he co-founded two separate theater companies, one in Los Angeles and another in New York City. Favorite theater memories include assisting Emmy-winner David Lee at The Pasadena Playhouse, directing Hamlet in Los Angeles, and playing Friar Laurence twice in two separate productions of Romeo and Juliet. He also has been teaching yoga, for over a decade, to various arts organizations including: New York City Ballet, The Calder Foundation, Feng Yi-Dance (Taiwan), among others and leads yoga retreats all over the world. Frank is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA), an Eagle Scout, and watched the sun rise from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.​

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Sarah Beling

Grant Writer​

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Sarah received a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch (Stella Adler, CAP21) and is a member of Actors’ Equity. Selected theatrical credits include A Chorus Line (Cassie), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), White Christmas (Judy Haynes), Les Misérables (Factory Girl, u/s Fantine), and She Loves Me (Ilona Ritter). Sarah is also a freelance writer and playwright across print and digital mediums.

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Joe Mastracchio

Development Director​

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Joe (he/him) grew up in New Haven, CT, and currently lives in Pleasant Valley, NY, working as a Leadership Gift Officer for Vassar College.

He graduated from Williams College in 2010, earning a degree in English with honors for his thesis work on Shakespeare and Dante.  Between 2011 and 2016 he served as the Director of the Williams Club of New York, where his primary responsibilities included membership development, event planning, and communications.  In 2016 he founded Red Note Rehearsal Studios in Ridgewood, Queens, and ran that business as sole proprietor until selling it in 2019.  Since early 2020 he has been working in Development at Vassar College. He was hired as Assistant Director of Annual Giving, in which role he coordinated programming, outreach, and communications for alumni volunteers, in support of the College’s $10M+ annual fund goal.  In late 2022 he was promoted to the role of Leadership Gift Officer, managing a portfolio of roughly 250 leadership giving prospects ($100K+). This position involves frequent travel to cultivate individual relationships with high-capacity alums in support of the College’s current $500M Fearlessly Consequential comprehensive campaign. While he’s never acted in any plays, his high school English teacher told him he had the perfect voice for reading as Claudius. In his free time he plays music, watches old movies, and runs D&D games.​

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Stephanie Janssen

CMS Youth Company Artistic Director, Grant Writer

 

Stephanie (she/her) is a New York-based actor who’s performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theaters across the country, and in film and television. Favorite experiences on stage include the Broadway production of Death of a Salesman (w/ Philip Seymour Hoffman, dir. Mike Nichols), off-Broadway in Clive, an adaptation of Brecht’s Baal (dir. Ethan Hawke), and her contribution to new works at the Long Wharf, Denver Center, the McCarter and the Humana Festival/Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. She taught Shakespeare to kids in Brooklyn with Child’s Play NY, serving as an acting coach/assistant director on her adaptations of plays including Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Winter’s Tale. She taught introductory acting at Middlebury College, her alma mater, and is the author of The Umbrella Plays, a collection of short works that received the Outstanding Play award at the NY Fringe Festival. Stephanie earned an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and two daughters.​​​​​

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Wally Krantz

Creative Director & Design​

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Wally (he/him) is a creative director, designer, and photographer who founded and runs the independent brand design studio Outside Order in Brooklyn, NY. With over 25 years of global branding and design agency experience, Wally makes brand identities, visual identity systems, campaigns, and objects for corporations and non-profits, sports, government, conservation and relief organizations, theater groups, artists, and musicians. Wally’s work has been awarded in the U.S. and around the world. He has served on design juries for The Clio Awards, The Art Directors Club, and How Magazine. He has been on NPR’s Marketplace and quoted in Forbes, Fast Company, Print, and several articles in The New York Times. Wally grew up in the suburbs of Detroit and studied graphic design, photography, and art history at Western Michigan University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. In 2014 he was honored as the inaugural Western Michigan University College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni in Graphic Design. He continues to work with college students and faculty through lectures, workshops, and mentoring at design programs across the country. Wally lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two daughters.​​

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