Well maybe she was a “teacher” , for a while, But now we know she is so much more!

“Pier One Theatre director Kathleen Gustafson usually directs dark, serious plays like “W;T,” about a woman dying of cancer. The veteran youth camp teacher lightened up a bit last summer with “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a play that still had somber moments among its glam-rock craziness.

When Pier One artistic director Lance Petersen asked her to read “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay,” Gustafson couldn’t resist.

“It’s crude and it’s broad,” she said of the 1974 political farce written by Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Dario Fo. “He does not write for critics or MFAs. He writes for working people. He’s not looking to impress anyone.”

Boston Phoenix reviewer Carolyn Clay called a 1999 Boston production “a kind of classic sit-com transplant, with the ‘Honeymooners’ team of volatile Ralph Kramden and gangly Ed Norton inserted into the Lucy and Ethel antics of ‘I Love Lucy.’” Originally set by Fo in 1970s Italy, when out-of-control inflation made basic items like food unaffordable for working class families, the play begins when two women liberate food from a supermarket after a dramatic price increase.

“Desperate people behave in desperate ways,” Gustafson said. “In the course of this play, these two families lose everything. You see them tested over and over again. Are they going to allow themselves to starve and become homeless or are they going to fight back?”

Hmmm, you would have thought she was “just a school teacher” going up against the mean-old Sarah Palin. But wait!

“This summer marks Gustafson’s 10th season with Pier One Theatre. In 2000 she came to Homer from Key West, Fla., where she had done community theater with Slapdash Theatrical. That fall she wowed Homer when she won a local Poetry Slam. A poet, Gustafson went to the National Poetry Slam on the Key West team, and after moving to Alaska went to the National Poetry Slam on the Alaska team.

“I like the end of the road and I like harbor towns,” Gustafson said of her experience at opposite ends of the continent.

Raised in rural Kentucky, at age 17 she went to New York City, where she attended the Strasberg Institute and apprenticed with Herb Liebman in the Actor’s Studio. She graduated with a bachelor of fine arts from the National Shakespeare Conservatory.

Now 44, she taught for five years at Smokey Bay Learning Center and was the KBBI radio morning newscaster. She’s also technical director for the Mariner Theatre at Homer High School.”

So I guess know “The Rest of the Story”. As she said to Sarah, “I’m a teacher, among other things”. Yeah, other things. Looks like her greatest roll was playing a pissed off school teacher angry at Sarah Palin. Just an act, most likely put up to it by by the PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) Queen Shannyn Moore.