Linda Barnes   - Linda retired in 2006 after 30 years of service in Alabama schools (15 years teaching and 15 as a school counselor). She has taught drama to children and has performed in numerous theatre productions in Birmingham. Linda is currently the interim Director of Religious Education in the Unitarian Church and also teaches yoga at Birmingham Southern College. Her volunteer efforts include being a Seasoned Performer ( a senior touring theatre troupe) and a WBHM radio reader. She has a son, David that coaches football in Greenville Al., 2 grandchildren, Andrew and Evan and a daughter who is completing her 3rd year of law school at Florida State University.

Sunny Campbell-Brown - has worn many hats over the years. Having graduated with honors from college with a Home Interior Degree, Sunny attended Montevallo University on a Phi Theta Kappa Honors scholarship where she studied Social Work and Sociology. Since then Sunny has had her own Interior Decorating company - Sunshine and Rainbows, but her love of people has developed in areas of helping others in need through various means.

Sunny has been very active in various venues of the Arts, and for the past 25 years has actively been involved with volunteer programs with Alabama Theatre, Alys Stevens Center, BJCC, Birmingham Museum of Art, and Boutwell Auditorium - where she also served as Volunteer Coordinator for a season. A little known fact about Sunny is her direct link to the theatre. Her material grandfather, John Arthur Bridges, was on stage in Vaudeville and went on to become a known character actor who played along side of Hoot Gibson, Bob Steel, Ken Maynard, Lash LaRue, and others in the Westerns during the early 40’s. It is her desire to bring awareness of M.C.A.T. and help it develop to substantial recognition among the Birmingham public that it rightfully deserves.

Terrence (Terry) Chapman - is a former banker and has been President of Business Electronics Corporation for the past 15 years. He has a lovely wife Mariah and three daughers Lucy (8), Holli (6) and Libby (4).

 


Stephen Curry - Headshot & bio to come

David Garrard  - David Garrard has been in real estate for over fourteen years, and is currently with RealtySouth in their Crestline office on Euclid Avenue. Before that, David graduated from Auburn University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in marketing and a minor in public relations.

After that, he moved to Birmingham and worked for various local companies, including Pizitz, AmSouth Bank, Jefferson Blount St.Clair Mental Health Authority, and Southern Research Institute. Stepping off the corporate ladder, he and a friend formed a lawn maintenance business called BamLawn before entering the real estate business.

David has always enjoyed attending local theatre and is excited about being part of helping a new company grow to its potential.

Ruwena Healy   - is the President of Marketing 24/7, Inc. a consulting firm with expertise in developing marketing plans for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and professionals such as attorneys, accountants and expert witnesses to improve their business development effectiveness and to increase revenue and profits. Ruwena’s twenty years of marketing experience include ten years specializing in “professional services marketing,” most recently as Director of Marketing & Recruiting for a 50+ law firm in Birmingham. She also served as Director of Client Services for a nationally recognized forensic accounting and fraud examination firm. While in that position, Ruwena authored sections of “Building Your Fraud Examination Practice,” a nationally taught course sponsored by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”).

Dottie King  - Dottie King is President of The King Consulting Group, Inc., an analytical consulting company that she founded in 2006 as the successor to Three Sigma, Inc., the company that she created in 1995 with a recently retired partner.

The King Consulting Group provides a broad range of services to businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, accountants and attorneys. Services generally include objective measurement of how human, material and financial resources are used. For businesses, results are analyzed to identify opportunities for increased efficiency, improved cash flow, reduced costs, greater tax benefits, new marketing opportunities, and additional profits. Similarly, The King Consulting Group helps nonprofits to retain current funding by measuring program effectiveness and to develop new opportunities for funding by quantifying need.

Projects for government agencies typically address compliance requirements or efficiency studies. Services are provided to attorneys to support litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

Dottie joined WBOC in September of 1995, and she has served on the Board as Treasurer and President. She participated in the strategic planning that lead to the affiliation with NAWBO and to the transition of WBOC to NAWBO Birmingham. Last year when president-elect, Marlene Reed, retired and moved to Texas, Dottie volunteered for a second term as President.

Dottie's commitment to NAWBO is grounded in her appreciation for the professional and personal benefits that NAWBO has given her and for the opportunities that NAWBO has created. She credits NAWBO Birmingham with helping her to create a strong network of peers, to promote her business and its services, and to gain access to resources that increase both possibilities and profits.

Dottie is the single mother of three adult children, four rescued dogs and one elderly cat. She enjoys cooking, gardening, travel, reading, walking and restoring her historic Highland Park home. A perpetual student, Dottie continues to learn through a wide variety of courses, workshops and seminars. Dottie characterizes herself as a realistic idealist who believes that each person can make a difference in the world.


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.

Matt Murphy - attended West Georgia University during the early 1990's graduating with a degree in Theatre. Always comfortable before an audience, Matt appeared in shows ranging from The Sound of Music to Pinter's The Dumbwaiter. Upon graduation, Matt eschewed a life of theatre favoring the modest stability of a career in radio broadcasting. (Radio folk would find this last line side-splittingly funny...but we digress) Matt's acerbic wit and unique perspective on life and politics can be heard 2-6pm daily in Northern and Central Alabama on 101.1 FM The Source.

Dr. Chandler and
Jane Paris-Smith - Dr. Chandler Smith is a retired radiologist and Jane Paris-Smith was a teacher for many years. They fill their time now being on several different boards and civic groups. They support the performing arts in many different venus and enjoying taking their grandchildren to enjoy the performances around town.

Tommy Thompson - has been working in the non-profit world for over 20 years in various capacities from volunteer to executive level management. His areas of expertise are in the areas of Non-profit administration; grant writing and fund development, as well as, staff development and training. His basic training is as a Registered Nurse in the areas of Psychiatric Nursing, Pediatrics, and Infectious Disease. He currently works, as an independent consultant providing Medical Legal Services, in collaboration with his Partner Andrew Duxbury, MD and also provides Non-Profit Training and Strategic Planning services. In addition to this he has had a life long love of Music and Theatre and has resumed his education in Music and Theatre at the University of Montevallo. It is his hope and goal to combine his areas of interest in creative ways not only entertain but to benefit the society in which we live. He is delighted to bring his ideas and skills to Magic City Actors Theatre and help this company not only realize their dreams but to grow beyond.

Hardwick Walthall  - is a shareholder in the Birmingham office of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., and a member of the firm's Taxation, General Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups. He is a member of the American, Alabama and the Birmingham Bar Associations.
Mr. Walthall graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1993 and received his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Alabama in 1997. At Alabama, he served as a Senior Editor of the Alabama Law Review. He was also elected to the Order of the Coif. Mr. Walthall received his Masters of Laws (in Taxation) from New York University in 2000.
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