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WHO’S WHO I A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD Arnold Lobel (Author) During his distinguished career Arnold Lobel wrote and/or illustrated over 70 books for children. To his illustrating credit, he had a Caldecott Medal book -- Fables (1981) -- and two Caldecott Honor Books-his own Frog and Toad are Friends (1971) and Hildilid’s Night by Cheli Duran Ryan (1972). To his writing credit, he had a Newbery Honor Book -- Frog and Toad Together (1973). But to his greatest credit, he had a following of literally millions of young children with whom he shared the warmth and humor of his unpretentious vision of life. Though he was a born storyteller -- he began making up stories extemporaneously to entertain his fellow second-graders in Schenectady, New York, where he grew up in the care of his grandparents. Mr. Lobel called himself a “lucky amateur” in terms of his writing. Viewing himself as a professionally trained illustrator (he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute), he said, “I know how to draw
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Who’s Who I A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD
Arnold Lobel (Author) During his distinguished career Arnold Lobel wrote and/or illustrated over 70 books for children. To his illustrating credit, he had a Caldecott Medal book -- Fables (1981) -- and two Caldecott Honor Books-his own Frog and Toad are Friends (1971) and Hildilid’s Night by Cheli Duran Ryan (1972). To his writing credit, he had a Newbery Honor Book -- Frog and Toad Together (1973). But to his greatest credit, he had a following of literally millions of young children with whom he shared the warmth and humor of his unpretentious vision of life.
Though he was a born storyteller -- he began making up stories extemporaneously to entertain his fellow second-graders in Schenectady, New York, where he grew up in the care of his grandparents. Mr. Lobel called himself a “lucky amateur” in terms of his writing. Viewing himself as a professionally trained illustrator (he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute), he said, “I know how to draw
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pictures. With writing, I don’t really know what I’m doing. It’s very intuitive.”
In addition to the Frog and Toad books, Owl at Home, Mouse Tales, The Book of Pigericks, and many other popular books he created, Mr. Lobel also illustrated other writers’ texts that captured his fancy. He viewed this as “something different and challenging.” Often his illustrations for those books showed a different aspect of his personality and his artistic expertise, ranging from his meticulous dinosaurs in Dinosaur Time by Peggy Parish to his chilling pen-and-ink drawings in Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep by Jack Prelutsky, about which Booklist wrote, “Young readers will be amazed that the gentle Lobel of Frog and Toad fame can be so comfortably diabolic.”
In 1977 Mr. Lobel and his wife, Anita, a distinguished children’s book author and artist in her own right, collaborated on their first book, How the Rooster Saved the Day, chosen by School Library Journal as one of the Best Books of the Year, 1977. They then
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collaborated on three more books, A Treeful of Pigs, a 1979 ALA Notable Book; On Market Street, a 1982 Caldecott Honor Book; and The Rose in My Garden, a 1984 Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book.
Arnold Lobel died in 1987.
Willie Reale (Librettist and Lyricist): Willie Reale is a free-lance writer, living in New York. He has collaborated with his brother, Robert, on a musical called Once Around the City, which was produced by New York Stage and Film and at the Second Stage Theatre in New York. Quark Victory, another musical written with his brother, was produced by the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Other plays have been produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Circle Repertory Company. With his brother he has written A Year with Frog and Toad, which was performed at the Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis, the New Victory Theatre and at the Cort Theater on Broadway. Willie received two Tony
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nominations for his book and lyrics. In 1981, he founded The 52nd Street Project, an organization that brings inner-city children together with professional theater artists to create theater. He served as the theater’s artistic director for 18 years. With the Project, he produced hundreds of plays. The programs of The 52nd Street Project are currently being replicated at 12 sites across the country through a series of publications are entitled “The Kid Theater Kit.” For The Kit he wrote “52 Pick Up,” the Project how-to manual, as well as numerous plays, and the lyrics to hundreds of songs, including two full-length musicals, all of which are available through Dramatists Play Service. In June of 1994, he was awarded a MacArthur in recognition of his ingenuity in creating theater and theater education programs for young people. For television, Mr. Reale has written for the NBC dramas Homicide: Life on the Streets, Deadline, and Mr. Sterling. For Fox he has written for Keen Eddie and The Jury. He created a series called Out There for Sesame Workshop and the BBC,
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which shot in Australia. His work on the show was recognized by an Australian Film Institute Award (The Australian Emmy) and Prix Jeunesse and Writers’ Guild of America nominations. He has taught at New York University and the Yale School of Drama. Willie is married to producer Jenny Gersten. They have two children, Augustus and Leonardo.
Robert Reale (Composer) Musicals-Broadway: A Year with Frog and Toad (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: Once Around the City (2nd Stage), Quark Victory (Williamstown Theater Festival). Music for plays: Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third (directed by John Rando), Diva, (WTF), Salvation’s Moon. Film: Ten-13, Passing Over, Wigstock, Dealers Among Dealers, The Victim, others. Television: PrimeTime, 20/20, Inside Edition, Out There (theme), Invent This (theme), Mugshots, Crime Stories, The System, The Mailman and the Pirhana, Case Closed, Beating The Rap, The Royals: Dynasty or Disaster?, others.
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As composer and record producer, he has worked with Julie Andrews, Mel Torme, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
Jimmy Phillips (Director / Choreographer) Main Street Theater: (Director) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Pinkalicious, A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Wizard of Oz, Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas, Shrek the Musical, Lyle the Crocodile, Fancy Nancy: The Musical, Pippi Longstocking, Alice in Wonderland, Pinkalicious, (Actor) Urinetown, Happily Hereafter, Call Me Madam, Flora, the Red Menace, Into The Woods; Stages Repertory Theatre: (Director) I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Always, Patsy Cline; Theater LaB Houston: (Director) [Title of the Show], True Love Lies, The Little Dog Laughed, Johnny Guitar, The Musical of Musicals, Barrymore, A Class Act, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Cooking with Elvis, Hushabye Mountain, Eating Raoul the musical, Blood Brothers, The Rink; Unity Theater: (Director) Forever Plaid, Nunsense;
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Little Room Downstairs: (Director) A New Brain, Twigs, A Seat Between; Celebration Theater: (Director) The Temperamentals, Pageant; Thunderclap Productions: (Director) Death, the musical; Global Harmony Productions: (Director) Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know. Extensive acting credits include TUTS, Theater LaB Houston, Unity Theater, AD Players and Stages. Education: B.F.A., Stephens College, Theatre. Currently teaches Theater Arts at Annunciation Orthodox Middle School.
Steven Jones (Music Director) Main Street Theater: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Pinkalicious, The Wizard of Oz, Shrek the Musical, Fancy Nancy: The Musical, Pippi Longstocking, Alice in Wonderland, Flora, the Red Menace, Into the Woods, Urinetown, The Light in the Piazza, Schoolhouse Rock, Live!,; Stages Repertory Theatre: Mack and Mabel, Next to Normal, Grey Gardens, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Company; Theater LaB Houston: The Musical of
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Musicals, Passion, Johnny Guitar, The Rink; A.D. Players: The Fantasticks, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Unity Theater: Forever Plaid, Master Class; Texas Repertory Theater: Illyria; Ensemble Theater: Once On This Island. Education: B.A., Baylor University, Music; M.A., University of Texas, Music.
Seth Cunningham (Frog) Main Street Theater: Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Jackie & Me (2019): Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.: Talk Radio; Houston Grand Opera:
The Flying Dutchman; Obsidian Theater: Cabaret, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Antony and Cleopatra. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre.
Megan Jankovic (Bird/Mouse/Squirrel/Young Frog/Mole) Main Street Theater: Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Jackie & Me (2019),
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Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Tour), Pinkalicious, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Tour), Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (2017), Mockingbird, Duck for President (2016), Harriet the Spy; Jewish Community Center: God of Vengeance; Playhouse on the Prairie: Peter Pan!; Sam Houston State University: The Other Place, Machinal, Hair. Education: B.F.A., Sam
Anna Pritchett (Bird/Turtle/Squirrel/Mother Frog/Mole) Main Street Theater: Debut; Sam Houston State University: Footloose, Pippin, Smokey Joe’s Café, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream; Theatre Arlington: The Little Mermaid, Seussical, Jr. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre.
Rodrick Randall (Toad) Main Street Theater: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (2017), How I Became a Pirate (2017 Tour), Duck for President (2016),
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Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans (Tour), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Stargirl, James and the Giant Peach, Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the Missing Cat (Tour), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2013), A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration, Alice in Wonderland, The Magic School Bus, Live! The Climate Challenge (Tour), A Little House Christmas (2012), How I Became a Pirate, Schoolhouse Rock, Live! (Tour); Catastrophic Theatre: Small Ball; Rogue Productions: I Love You Because; A.D. Players: David, The Best Slinger in the West; Ensemble Theatre: I, Barbara Jordan, Sanctified, Cinderella, Christmas with Great Aunt; Obsidian Theatre: Passing Strange; Queensbury Theatre: Unlock’d, It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues; United Players Inc.: Civil War; Bayou City Concert Musicals: A New Girl In Town, Pajama Game; Dionysus Theatre: Wait Until Dark; Interactive Theatre: Robin Hood and His Merry Men, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Harriet Tubman’s Freedom Train; Express Children’s Theatre: Goldilocks,
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Three Little Pigs. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Acting / Directing.
Jonathan Teverbaugh (Bird/Snail/Lizard/Father Frog/Mole) Main Street Theater: Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Tour), Jackie & Me (2019), Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Curious
George: The Golden Meatball, Pinkalicious, Daddy Long Legs (Understudy), Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Holes, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Tour), The Wizard of Oz, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (American premieres), Shrek the Musical, Twelfth Night (with Prague Shakespeare Company), Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Pippi Longstocking, The Giver, A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration, Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the Missing Cat (Tour); Playhouse on the Prairie: Alice!, Oz!; Theater LaB Houston: Winifred; Sam Houston State University: The Seagull, Once Upon a Mattress, Doubt, Hamlet. Education: B.F.A.,
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Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre.
Katie Gruenhagen (Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: Mr. Popper’s Penguins; Colorado Shakespeare Festival: King Charles III, As You Like It, Richard III, You Can’t Take It with You; B Street Theatre (Sacramento, CA): Ironbound; Denver Center Theatre Company – Off Center: This Is Modern Art; Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company: The Revolutionists, Birds of North America; Curious Theatre Company: The Body of an American, Hand of God. Lone Star College: Program Director – Live Entertainment Technology. M.F.A., Indiana University, Lighting Design.
Jonathan Middents (Scenic Design) Main Street Theater: Hank The Cowdog; University of Houston: 36 seasons as Production Manager and scenic, lighting and sound designer; Houston Shakespeare Festival: 36 seasons as Production Manager and designer; Children’s Theatre Festival: 25 seasons as Production Manager and
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designer; University of Houston Downtown: 44 productions over 25 years as scenic and lighting designer; Queens Theatre (NYC): (sound design) Hit Lit; University of Houston Opera: 5 productions as Technical Director; Unity Theatre: 10 productions as set or sound designer; Christmas Revels: 7 productions as designer and Technical Director; University of Houston Clear Lake: 6 seasons as designer and Technical Director; HCC Central and Southwest Campuses: 4 productions; Stages Repertory Theatre: (set design) The Courage of Mandy Kate Brown; University of Texas at Austin: 2 seasons as Technical Director and designer. Education: M.F.A., Florida State University, Scenic Design; B.A., Rice University, Psychology.
Mark B. Robbins (Properties Design) Main Street Theater: (Properties Design) Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2019), Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Pinkalicious the Musical,
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Holes, Akeelah and the Bee, Junie B. Is Not a Crook (Tour), Bunnicula, How I Became a Pirate, (Scenic Painter) Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, How I Became a Pirate (Tour), Love Goes to Press, (Actor) Red Hot Patriot (2012), Jackie & Me, Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells (understudy), Hank the Cowdog and the Curse of the Incredible Priceless Corncob (Tour), (Stage Management) The Magic School Bus, Live! (Tour), Schoolhouse Rock, Live! (Tour), A Catered Affair, Romeo and Juliet (Tour), Pinkalicious, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Busytown, (Production Assistant) Henry V (with Prague Shakespeare Company), The Coast of Utopia, Cakewalk, Woof (World Premiere), It’s Only Life, This, Or, Tomfoolery; 4th Wall Theatre Company: (Properties Design) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Reno Little Theater: (Scenic Painter) Enchanted April, Lend Me a Tenor; San Jacinto College South: Wait Until Dark, The Boys Next Door, Cosi, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel. Education: San Jacinto College South.
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Amber Stepanik (Costume Designer) Main Street Theater: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Holes; Lone Star College Montgomery: The Rocky Horror Show, 1984, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, The Shape of Things, Miss Firecracker Contest, Green Day’s American Idiot, The Birds, 96 Minutes; Queensbury Theatre: Unlock’d; Theatre Southwest: 13 Rue De L’Amour; Stagesworks Theatre: The Elephant Man, Peter and the Starcatcher, Little Shop of Horrors, Amadeus, Into the Woods, 1776, Freud’s Last Session, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Evita, Three Musketeers, Secret Garden, A Christmas Carol, Beaux Stratagem, The Crucible, Dames at Sea; Playhouse 1960: Into the Woods, (Director) Alice in Wonderland, Jr., Flat Stanley Jr., Mulan Jr., Charlotte’s Web, Peter Pan Jr., The Lion King Jr., Pirates of Penzance Jr. Education: B.S., Trinity University.
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Shawn W. St. John (Sound Design) Main Street Theater: numerous productions, including You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Relatively Speaking, The Book of Will, Men On Boats, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies First American Production), RFK, Silent Sky, The Real Thing, Peace in Our Time, Memory House, The Coast of Utopia Trilogy, This, The Year of Magical Thinking, Arcadia, In the Garden of Live Flowers, Indian Ink, An American Daughter, Jackie & Me, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Pinkalicious, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, Akeelah and the Bee, Shrek the Musical, Junie B. Jones: The Musical, Goodnight Moon, Fancy Nancy: The Musical, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, The Giver, Alice in Wonderland, How I Became a Pirate, Charlotte’s Web, Happily Hereafter, The Reluctant Dragon, The BFG (Big Friendly Giant); Catastrophic Theatre: First Suburb, The Tamarie Cooper Show: Field Trip!, The Strangerer, Jim Lehrer and the Theater and Its Double and Jim Lehrer’s Double, Small Ball (world
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premiere), Rhinoceros, Evening at the Talk House, Trevor, Buried Child, The Danube; Unity Theatre: Becky’s New Car; Bayou City Concert Musicals: New Girl in Town; Berkshire Theatre Festival: (Sound Designer) Quills, Wilder Wilder, (Sound Engineer) Cheers, Bill (with sound designer Tony Meola), Free Fall (with Sandy Duncan), Visiting Mr. Green (with Eli Wallach). Additionally, Mr. St. John has designed and mixed musicals and other productions for educational theaters, including St. John’s School, Stratford High School, Queensbury Theatre, and Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theatre. Education: B.A., Rollins College, Theatre.
Danielle Docwra (Production 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, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Pinkalicious the
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Musical, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Holes, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (2017), Bunnicula, Ramona Quimby, Mockingbird, Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas, Duck for President (2016 & 2012), Shrek, the Musical, Harriet the Spy, Junie B. Jones: The Musical, Bridge to Terabithia, Lyle the Crocodile, Goodnight Moon (2015), Fancy Nancy: The Musical, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Stargirl, Madeline’s Christmas (2014), Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Pippi Longstocking, James and the Giant Peach, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Giver, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2013), Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, (Assistant Stage Manager) Jackie and Me, Duck for President; Texas Repertory Theatre: (Stage Manager & Properties Designer) Nunsense, Tribute, Company, Lion in Winter, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play (2011 & 2012), When You Coming Back Red Ryder?, Leading Ladies, Beehive, ART, Crimes of the Heart, Shadowlands, Wait Until Dark,
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Sylvia; Nova Arts Project: (Stage Manager) Gate of Heaven, (Production Manager) The Bacchae; Town Centre Theatre: (Assistant Stage Manager) Julius Caesar. Education: San Jacinto College.
Vivienne M. St. John (Theater for Youth Artistic Director) Main Street Theater: Theater for Youth Producing Director 2000-2019 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
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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, Relatively Speaking, The Book of Will, Holes, Hecuba and The Trojan Women, Troilus and Cressida, An Iliad and Twelfth Night with Prague Shakespeare Company (MST collaborations), 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
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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) 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. Founder, Main Street Theater.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRODUCTION STAFF
Greg R. Wehrer, Chair
Toni Henning, Secretary/Treasurer
Rebecca Greene Udden, Executive Artistic Director
Elizabeth Marshall BlackJason H. CasellJanet HansenKassie HarrisMary ItzKathryn H. ShurinAndy J. Zitterkopf
ADVISORY COUNCIL
C. Sidney BurrusKarol Kreymer and Robert CardFran EpsteinChristianne HagemannJill JarvisRodney Koenig
Assistant Stage Manager ............Lauren AyalaSound Engineer ............................. Justin LylesRun Crew ........................................Curmira Bill,
Logan Richard, Shelby SemandsScenic Charge Artist ...................Lauren Davis
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
Jacqueline 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
Arianna DayTour 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.
