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 to be playing a supporting role for the arts community.

His wife, Jillmarie, is a costumer for the Star Bar Players. When the previous treasurer stepped down, Palyn quickly volunteered to fill the position. After a unanimous vote, Palyn joined Jillmarie on the board. He is full of ideas and has big plans for the future of Star Bar.

Palyn is a successful entrepreneur, owning and operating a local computer repair business, as well as a number of successful internet businesses.

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.

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.