Jean Buckley - Producer

Jean has been an active member of the Winton Club for thirteen years. Over that time, she has served on many of the Cabaret committees, including being Chair and Co-Chair for the Scenery and the Costume Committees, as well as Editor of the Program Book. Jean has also been a Buyer for the Winton Club Gift Shop located in the Winchester Hospital’s main lobby. The Gift Shop and the Cabaret combine their proceeds for an annual donation to Winchester Hospital. This year the donation will be dedicated to the Healing Garden at the new Cancer Center.

Raised in nearby Belmont, Jean took her college degree in Interior Design from UMass Amherst, and started her professional career in large Boston and Cambridge architectural design firms. Jean moved to Winchester to an early (c.1873) residence with her architect husband David. In 1998, Jean and David started their own architectural and interior design firm specializing in healthcare, commercial and residential designs. David has volunteered on the Stage Crew, working with a number of other Winton Club husbands, building scenery and props for the Cabaret shows.

Honored to be asked to Chair and Produce the 2012 Winton Club Cabaret, Jean has been hard at work on the show since November of last year. The familiar theme “It’s About Time” extends to more enduring concepts of the world we live in, and the people we love. This year also marks a special Time for Winchester Hospital as we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1912.

Now, through song and dance, and with the help of many volunteers and entertainment professionals, the Winton Club is pleased to present a performance that brings a fresh focus on how precious “Time” is to each one of us.  It’s About Time.

Maryann Zschau - Director

Maryann is delighted to have been awarded the opportunity to direct the 2012 Cabaret It's About Time.

Previous to directing It's about Time, she directed Wincentennial (Debbie Williams Chasse, producer), Putting It Together (Diana Deering, producer), Celebration (Gayle O’Grady, producer) and Get Your Kicks on Route 66 (Ellen Wilson, producer).  Regional directing credits include Fidelity Follies (Fidelity Investments),  Chicago (ACTS Theatre Company), Forever Plaid, Nunsense, (Masque Theatre), Damn Yankees (Milford Theatre Guild), Godspell, Guys& Dolls and Cabaret  (Littleton High School). 

A three- time IRNE Award winning Best Actress recipient for Thoroughly Modern Millie (Mrs. Meers, Reagle Music Theatre), A Little Night Music (Desiree, Lyric Stage Company) and Sunday in the Park with George (Dot, Lyric Stage Company), Maryann has appeared in the national tour of Nunsense 3 (w/ Georgia Engel), the Boston productions of Menopause the Musical and Nunsense as well as playing Vera Charles in Reagle Music Theatre’s, Mame (w/ Lee Meriwether).

Concert appearances include Follies w/ Len Cariou (Phyllis) and Songs for a New World w/ Jason Robert Brown (Soloist).  Other favorite roles include Urinetown (Ms. Pennywise), Dirty Blonde (Mae West) and Assassins (Sarah Jane Moore) at Lyric Stage  and Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett) Gypsy (Mama Rose) and Nine (Luisa) at Publick Theatre. 

Maryann is a Boston College graduate, and works as an arts marketing consultant and a private acting coach. She is happy to be working once again with husband, Steve Bergman and is very proud of their best accomplishment, daughter, Emma!

Steven Bergman - Music Director

It’s wonderful to return to Winchester for the 14th time! 

Musical Director: The Adding Machine (Speakeasy Stage), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Wheelock Family Theatre), Das Barbecü (New Repertory Theatre), The Gig, When Pigs Fly, The Curse of the Bambino (Lyric Stage Company), Dames at Sea, A Funny Thing…Forum (American Stage Festival), Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, The Fantasticks, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Something's Afoot, Pirates of Penzance (Worcester Foothills Theatre), The Orphan Queen (Jewish Theatre of New England), Personals, A…My Name is Alice, Tomfoolery (Actors Playhouse).

Composer: Animal Farm, The Curse of the Bambino (CD available through www.bambinomusical.com), Four Kisses, Jack the Ripper: the Whitechapel Musical, Comedy of Errors.

Keyboards: Nunsense Jamboree (National tour with Georgia Engel, CD/DVD with Vicki Lawrence), national tours of Sunday in the Park with George, Dreamgirls, Guys and Dolls, and Les Miserables.

Playwright: History, At the Buzzer and Rosie, the Teddy Bear (published by Brooklyn Publishers), Have a Seat, Please and Marvin and Julius (published by Heuer Publishing). 

Steven is the Choral and Drama Instructor for the Littleton Public Schools.   

Steven is married to director Maryann Zschau, and they an awesome daughter, Emma, who has lived her entire life knowing and attending the Winton Club Cabaret!

Julia Fiske - Choreographer

Julia is very excited to be working on her first Winton Club experience.
In the Boston area, she has recently directed and choreographed A Chorus Line, Ragtime (DASH awards, Best Director and Best Production), The Rocky Horror Show, Singin' in the Rain, and will be directing West Side Story at Turtle Lane Playhouse, coming in March 2012.

Other directing and choreography credits include: The Producers (DASH nomination, choreography), Big: The Musical, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Shayna Maidel, West Side Story, and Annie. 

As a performer, she has been seen in Touring Companies of 42nd Street, All Shook Up (Dance Captain), Les Misérables (San Diego Company), and Fiddler on the Roof (Chava in the European Tour 2000).  She has also been seen in a national commercial for Hershey’s Swoops, and a 1st Anniversary of 9/11 Remembrance Concert at Madison Square Garden.  She has worked backstage for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City, and the Broadway companies of 42nd Streetand Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.   

Julia is an Honors graduate of the Royal Academy of Dance, London.  She has extensive experience in swing dance and aerials as well as ballroom and ethnic dancing.  Currently, Julia is pursuing a degree in Anthropology from Harvard University.