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Robin Robinson (Director) Main Street Theater: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, The Last Wife, Ramona Quimby, Duck for President, Seussical, She Loves Me, Quilters, Our Country’s Good, Serious Money, Into The Woods, The Art Of Self Defense, Chocolate Cake, Old Doves (World Premiere), How To Say Goodbye. Stages: Merrily We Roll Along; The World Of Beauty (World Premiere); Theatre Lab Houston: Avenue X; Search And Destroy; Hyde Park Theatre In Austin: Colonel Mustard (World Premiere); Capitol City Playhouse: Stud Silo (World Premiere); South Pacific; Grayson College: Over 80 Productions including Working, Treasure Island, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Othello, Godspell, Pippin, Grapes Of Wrath, Charlotte’s Web. Film: The Prodigy (Actor); Who's Who for Outstanding Educators; 2014 Texas Educational Theatre Association Educator of the Year for Community Colleges. Education: M.A.,


Texas Woman’s University, Directing; B.S., University of Texas, Austin, Education. Member, TTAO (Texas Theatre Adjudicators & Officials).

Estée Burks (Grace Bradley) Main Street Theater: Akeelah and the Bee; Alley Theatre: Murder on the Orient Express, Cleo; Rec Room: The Royale; The Ensemble Theatre: Satchel

Paige and the Kansas City Swing, Touring Education Program; The Landing Theatre Company: In Darfur, The Redemption Series. This Is Modern Art; Obsidian Theatre: For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Isn’t Enuf, Passing Strange; Sam Houston State University: Desire, Desire, Desire, Brown Sugar Revue (Co-Director & Ensemble). Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University.


Brian Chambers (Ollie Herdman / Mrs. Slocum) Main Street Theater: Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Jackie & Me (2019), Holes, A Charlie Brown

Christmas, Bunnicula; Alley Theatre: The Christians; Ensemble Theatre: Freedom Is My Middle Name; Unity Theatre: Little Women; Theater LaB Houston: The Chosen; Obsidian Theater: Evil Dead The Musical; Lone Star Lyric: Adrift in Macao; Bayou City Concert Musicals: Promises, Promises, Bells Are Ringing; Standing Room Only Productions: Heartbreak USA (World Premiere); Queensbury Theatre: Big River, Man of La Mancha; Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.: The Graduate; Cone Man Running Productions: Insomnia Café (Regional Premiere), My Cup Runneth Over; Caduceus Theater Arts Company: Don’t Dress for Dinner; Playhouse 1960: Boeing Boeing; Theatre New West: The Laramie Project; Stageworks Theatre: Forever Plaid; Lubbock Moonlight Musicals: Beauty and the Beast.


Education: B.A., Texas Tech University.

Daniel Edwards (Charlie Bradley) Main Street Theater: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Schoolhouse

Rock Live! (Tour), Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle!; Inspiration Stage: Little Shop of Horrors; Standing Room Only / Obsidian Theatre: Mystery of Edwin Drood; East Island Theatre Company: Next to Normal; PMT Productions: Wild Party; Iconotheatrix: Heathers the Musical; Express Children’s Theatre: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Cody House (Claude Herdman / Mrs. Armstrong) Main Street Theater: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Tour); A.D. Players:

David, The Best Slinger in the West, Rock Nativity; Island ETC: Disaster! A Musical Comedy, Urinetown; Stageworks Theater:


25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Alvin Community College: Godspell, The Fantasticks. Education: B.A. candidate, Illinois Wesleyan, Music.

Shane Manning (Ralph Herdman / Rev. Hopkins) Main Street Theater: Jackie & Me (2019), The Book of Will, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Ramona Quimby, 1946

(world premiere), Bridge to Terabithia, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (2015), James and the Giant Peach, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2013), Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat; Texas Repertory Theatre: Inspecting Carol, Of Mice and Men, The Foreigner, Shadowlands; Lone Star College – North Harris: Avenue Q, Rent, Red, Doubt, The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Obsidian Theater: Lop Lop Presents Lop Lop; College of the Mainland Community Theatre: Lombardi. Film/TV; STOPP Films. Education: Associate of Arts, Lone Star College, Theatre.


Natalie Nassar (Alice Wendleken / Mrs. Clausing / Firefighter) Main Street Theater: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Mr. Popper’s Penguins;

Tapestry Players: Little Women, State Fair; Obsidian Theater: Cabaret; Jones Theater: Little Shop of Horrors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Noises Off, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Welcome to the Moon, Guys and Dolls; The Artistic Home: The Skin of Our Teeth; Nerdcore Entertainment: A Mario World; Harbour Playhouse: Singin’ in the Rain, Chicago, Nunsense. Film / TV: Texas Heart, Jonny’s Sweet Revenge. Education: B.A., University of St. Thomas, Drama.

Prince Nnaji (Bob Bradley / Elmer / Firefighter) Main Street Theater: Jackie & Me (2019), Holes, Akeelah and the Bee; Express Children’s Theatre: The Adventures of Santa Claus, The


Freedom Train, Sinbad the Sailor; The Landing Theatre Company: In Darfur; Comedy Hub Houston. Film/TV: Boo Boo Bandits, Humble Guy Tryna Make It. Education: Associates candidate, Houston Community College, Computer Information Systems.

Devin Norwood (Leroy Herdman) Main Street Theater: Holes, Akeelah and the Bee, Mockingbird; Unity Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird, A Pocket Full of Rhymes, Alice in

Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Pinocchio, Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White Goes West, Scapino!; River City Rep: Grey Gardens; Sam Houston State University: Damn Yankees, Cabaret; Lone Star College Montgomery: Green Day’s American Idiot, The Rocky Horror Show, The Normal Heart. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre, cum laude.


Ashley Shaunte (Beth Bradley) Main Street Theater: Akeelah and the Bee; Teaching Artist, including tech for student productions of A Wrinkle in Time and Cymbeline; The Pearl

Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Scriptwriters Houston: Fire and Rain, Trying to Understand, Quiet Car; Wordsmyth Theater Company (readings): Montgomery, You Are What You Eat; The Sankofa Collective: Infancy; Houston Community College: The Skin of Our Teeth, What Is the Cause of Thunder; other productions include Little Women the Musical and A Christmas Story. Film / TV: Pablo and the Stingy Giant. Education: Texas State University, Performance and Production; Associates, Full Sail University, Media Communication.


Chloe Sullivan (Maxine / Mrs. McCarthy) Main Street Theater: Debut; Lamar University: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mauritius, Still Life with Iris, Silent Sky, The

Glass Menagerie, Anton in Show Business, Sweet Charity, Almost Maine. Education: B.S., Lamar University, Theatre and Dance.

Cat Thomas (Gladys Herdman) Main Street Theater: Debut; Shakespeare Outreach: Romeo & Juliet; Dinolion: Lionshare; Hoosier Shakes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Part 1;

University of Houston: Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Luchadora!, Julius Caesar, She Kills Monsters. Education: B.F.A., University of Houston, Acting.

Elizabeth Tinder (Imogene Herdman / Mrs. Clark) Main Street Theater: (Actor) Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Mr.


Popper’s Penguins, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Pinkalicious the Musical, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Ramona Quimby, (Choreographer) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2019); Obsidian Theater: Cabaret; Lubbock Moonlight Musicals: Tarzan the Musical; PMT Productions: The Wild Party; SRO Productions: The Who’s Tommy, Young Frankenstein; MJR Theatricals/Music Box: Assassins; Masquerade Theatre: Cabaret, Jekyll and Hyde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thoroughly Modern Millie; Class Act Productions: Singing in the Rain; Sam Houston State University: Nine the Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Macbett, Big Love. Film / TV: Any Last Words (South Coast Productions), The Long Ride Home (Rising Star Entertainment). Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre, Emphasis in Dance.

Tabitha Bounds (Properties Design) Main Street Theater: Debut.


Emily Curley (Sound Design) Main Street Theater: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Tour); (Sound Engineer) numerous productions; Stages Repertory Theatre: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, A Very Stages New Years; Rogue Production: Touch(ed); Greer Garson Theater Company (collegiate): The Threepenny Opera, David Ives One Acts. Education: Santa Fe University Art and Design, Design/Technical Theatre.

Bryan Ealey (Sound Design) Main Street Theater: (Sound Design) Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Holes, Ramona Quimby, A Little House; Christmas (2008), (Lighting Design) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2019); Stages Repertory Theatre: (Sound Design) Auntie Mame, Wittenberg, Marie Antoinette, Panto Rapunzel (and Zombies), (Lighting Design)


Sexy Laundry, Xanadu, The Spiritualist, (Asst. Audio Engineer ) Life Can Be a Dream, Next To Normal, The Winter Wonderettes, Hank Williams: Lost Highway; Classical Theatre Company: Hamlet; Unity Theatre: You Never Can Tell, Boeing Boeing; 4th Wall Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; National Tour as Audio Assistant with International R&B Artist Teena Marie; House of Blues Houston: Audio Engineer and Lighting Designer; River Pointe Church: Lighting Director.

Dylan Marks (Set Design) Main Street Theater: Private Lives, Schoolhouse Rock Live (Tour); The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville: Steel Magnolias; Endpoint Theatre Company: The Chronic Malcontents; The Waltzing Mechanics: Over My Dead Body; Teatro Luna: A Very Luna Christmas, Solo Tres!; Prologue Theatre Company: Take Her to See the Maco Lights; HITS Theatre: White Christmas, Anything Goes, Miss Nelson is Missing, Freaky Friday; Buskirk - Chumley Theatre: Fashion


Function Art; Indiana University: My Name Is Rachel Corey, The Pillowman. Education: B.A., Indiana University, Theater.

Donna Southern Schmidt (Costume Design) Main Street Theater: Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Jackie & Me (2019), The Book of Will, Schoolhouse Rock, Live (Tour), Pinkalicious The Musical, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Tour), A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Wizard of Oz; A.D. Players, resident costume designer for 25 years; numerous productions including Charlotte’s Web, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Shadowlands, Stuart Little, Thumbelina, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anastasia, The Fantasticks, Angel Street, Beauty and the Beast, The Importance of Being Earnest, Joyful Noise, The Odyssey, Charlie’s Aunt, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Alice in Wonderland, The Beams Are Creaking, Curious Savage, Winnie the Pooh, Anne of Green Gables, A Cardboard Christmas, The


Jungle Book, Emma, The Hero Squad vs The World’s Angriest Cow, Anne of Avonlea, Winslow Boy, Pride and Prejudice; Express Children’s Theatre: The Yellow Boat, Arabian Nights, To Africa With Love, African Delight, Pablo’s Wonderous Wishes; InterActive Theater Company: Around the World in 80 Days; The Days and Nights of King Arthur; Actor’s Workshop: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Louisiana Tech University: The Music Man. Education: Louisiana Tech University; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. dlsoutherndesigns.com

Saraiah Gonzalez (Performance Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2019), Jackie & Me, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, (Assistant Stage Manager) Curious George The Golden Meatball, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook. Education: B.A., West Texas A&M, Theatre (with emphasis in


Design and Technology); Associates Degree, San Jacinto College, Drama.

Vivienne M. St. John (Theater for Youth Producing Director) Main Street Theater: Theater for Youth Producing Director 2000-2020 seasons, including the World Premieres of Zero Tolerance?, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, If You Take a Mouse to School, Junie B. Jones, Miss Nelson Is Back!, The Wave (with special presentation by Ron Jones), The Diary of Anne Frank (with special presentation by Jacqueline Van Maarsen), (Director) Jackie & Me, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Goodnight Moon, (Costume Design) Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, Superfudge, Henry and Ramona, The Great Gilly Hopkins, If You Take a Mouse to School, Sideways Stories from Wayside School; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Assistant Production Manager, Visiting Mr. Green with Eli Wallach, Hay Fever with Joanne Woodward and Calista Flockhart, Jitta’s Atonement with Dianne Wiest, Free Fall with


Sandy Duncan, Bill Graham Presents with Ron Silver; Company Manager: Four of a Kind, Good Company, Woman in Mind with Marlo Thomas and Elizabeth Franz, Over the River and Through the Woods; Production Manager: The Ray Davies Show.

Rebecca Greene Udden (Executive Artistic Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) The Hard Problem, The Book of Will, Hecuba and The Trojan Women, Troilus and Cressida, An Iliad and Twelfth Night with Prague Shakespeare Company (MST collaborations), Holes, Enemies, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions), Silent Sky, Peace in Our Time, Heartbreak House, The Real Thing (1986 & 2013), The Coast of Utopia, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Heidi Chronicles (2010 & 1992), Arcadia (2010 & 1996), The House of the Spirits (English-language premiere), Caroline, or Change, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, The Rice (World Premiere), Copenhagen, The Miser, Uncommon Women and Others, Pride and


Prejudice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NEA Tour), A Little House Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, The Merchant of Venice (NEA Tour), The Diary of Anne Frank, The Taming of the Shrew (NEA Tour), Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and many more; (Actor) Private Lives (2019), Memory House, Richard III (with Prague Shakespeare Company), The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Third, The Busy World Is Hushed, Somebody’s Sons, The Sisters Rosensweig, Hapgood, Hamlet, and more; (Costume Design) numerous productions; Prague Shakespeare Company: (Director) Twelfth Night. Catastrophic Theatre: Advisory Board. Wordsmyth Theater Company: Advisory Board. Member of the American Leadership Forum Class XVI. 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award, Rice University. Founding Artistic Director, Main Street Theater.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRODUCTION STAFF

Greg R. Wehrer, Chair

Toni Henning,Treasurer

Mary Itz, Secretary

Rebecca Greene Udden, Executive Artistic Director

Jason H. CasellJanet HansenKassie HarrisKathryn H. ShurinAndy J. Zitterkopf

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Elizabeth Marshall BlackC. Sidney BurrusKarol Kreymer and Robert CardFran EpsteinChristianne Hagemann

Assistant Stage Manager .....Amanda AdwersSound Engineer ............................. Justin LylesRun Crew ...............Lauren Ayala, Curmira BillWig Artisan ...................................... Zack VarelaWardrobe Assistant ..............Amanda AdwersStage Management Intern ...Ava Hernandez

Rebecca Greene UddenExecutive Artistic Director

Vivienne M. St. JohnTheater for Youth Artistic Director

Jonathan Minchew-GonzalezDirector of Education and Youth Engagement

Andrew RuthvenMainStage Associate Artistic Director /

Director of Audience Services

Shannon EmerickDirector of Marketing & Communications

Mark RobertsTechnical Director

Jill JarvisRodney KoenigJacqueline C. McGregorGreg MarshallSylvia MatthewsLinda K. MayDean O’KelleyKathryn RitcheskeEnid RobinsonVictoria Benson SchutterGuy and Carol StreatfeildThomas TomlinsonElizabeth D. WilliamsMaxwell P. Zimmerman

MAIN STREET THEATER STAFF

Peggy VillarrealBusiness Manager / Comptroller

Dwight ClarkMarketing and Development Associate

Angela Harris-Cannizzo School Shows Manager

Martha OviedoTheater for Youth Booking Coordinator

Anais SaenzTour Coordinator

Danielle DocwraTheater for Youth Production Manager

Adam Thornton Assistant Technical Director

Boone Lacy Shop Foreman / Master Scenic Carpenter

Rodney Walsworth Properties Master

Front of House Lindsay Ehrhardt, Joanna Hubbard, Kate Lancaster,

Jonathan Teverbaugh, Zack Varela

Main Street Theater (MST) was founded in 1975 to provide stimulating opportunities for Houstonians of all ages to engage with the performing arts while providing meaningful and challenging professional work for Houston theater artists. MST is a fully professional theater with three programs: MainStage, Theater for Youth, and Education Department. Main Street Theater is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theaters, of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (formerly ASSITEJ), the world theatre network of theatre for children and young people, and a founding member of Houston Arts Partners. Our MainStage operates under Actors’ Equity Association Small Professional Theater contract. Main Street Theater is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston

through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

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