Board Members

Lyn Berry - As a successful district manager and business owner with Farmers Insurance, Lyn has been recruiting, training and supporting new agency owners since 2005. Prior to that, Lyn started her own insurance agency with Farmers in 1994.

She married her best friend in 2001, Mickey Berry, now a realtor with Keller-Williams. Having also been a highly-successful agency owner with Farmers for 9 years, Mickey also mentors the new agency owners who join Lyn’s district.

Lyn’s kids, Michael and Patrick Hallisey, Shawn Castle, and Rachel Redmon are quite successful in their own right. Michael is a designer with a local architectural firm. Patrick owns DM Point, LLC., a software development company that provides customized software to Farmers agents and district managers throughout the nation. Shawn is Artistic Director and Partner of The Modern Brand Company, LLC, Birmingham’s first true brand consulting firm for small businesses. Rachel works with a local securities firm and is an avid lover of animals.

Lyn is a pet lover, too, and is in her words “just stupid” about her Peek-a-poo, Dexter, and Standard Poodle, Molly Hollywood Brown. She enjoys entertaining and hanging out with family, painting, singing, traveling, and seeking out great local restaurants when on the road. She has also begun acting classes, which is her new creative love, which fits nicely with her role on the MCAT Board as she promotes great theatre in the Magic City.

Jeanenne MacKnight - Headshot and Bio to come

Susan Mason  - is the managing partner of B&A Warehouse, a special events venue with an in-house gourmet catering kitchen. Susan has grown the company’s operations to include an exclusive catering contract with BE&K Engineering, playing host to a wide variety of on premise events as well as catering events at off premise venues including The Virginia Samford Theatre, Rucker Place, The Civil Rights Museum, McWane Center, UAB, Limestone Springs, American Village. B&A’s corporate client list includes, but is not limited to, Brasfield & Gorrie, Balch and Bingham, Honda, AmSouth Bank, New South Federal, and all area universities.

Carin Mayo - Headshot and Bio to come

Whitney Page - Headshot and Bio to come

Sandi Taylor - has been an avid theatre-lover all her life. She moved to Alabama from Utah in 2006 and has extensive experience in administrative management, having worked in Alabama for Farmers Insurance and now for Motion Industries. Sandi’s son Dallas is a student at Shades Valley Theatre Academy in Irondale. She also has a daughter Laura, still in Utah, and is the proud grand-mom of three. It is Sandi’s desire to raise public awareness of and be a goodwill ambassador for the great and growing theatre arts scene in the Birmingham area.

Genny Williams - Headshot and Bio to come