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Timothy Allen McDonald is an award-winning playwright (Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter, Roald Dahl’s James and

the Giant Peach) adaptor of over 65 musicals (highlights include Guys and Dolls JR., Getting to Know...The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz YPE, and Les Miserables School Edition). McDonald is also an accomplished director (Dear Edwina produced by multi-Tony award winner Daryl Roth, and The Phantom Tollbooth at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and a leading authority on musical theater education. In 1996 McDonald was recruited by Freddie Gershon to develop Music Theatre International’s Education Division, working side-by-side with theatrical greats including Cameron Mackintosh, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Schwartz and Sheldon Harnick to create age-appropriate adaptations of musicals. In

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1997 McDonald founded iTheatrics to continue and expand the work he began at MTI by developing educational musical theatre adaptations and resources for Tams-Witmark, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Samuel French. McDonald is the founder of the Junior Theater Festival, the world’s largest festival exclusively dedicated to young people performing musical theater which is held annually in Atlanta, GA over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Believing that every child everywhere should have access to quality arts programs, Tim has developed several nationwide initiatives which build sustainable musical theater programs in underserved schools. These programs include NBC’s Smash Make A Musical, Educational Theatre Association’s JumpStart Theater, New York City’s Department of Education’s Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway Junior Program and The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities’ Turnaround Arts Initiative. Tim has had the unique honor of seeing Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka performed

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at the White House for President and Mrs. Bush and directing Sarah Jessica Parker and a troupe of the most wonderful girls at the first ever White House Talent Show for President and Mrs. Obama. For more information check out iTheatrics.com.

Meghan C. Hakes (Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) Junie B. Jones: The Musical, Busytown, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, The Reluctant Dragon, (Set Design/Choreography) Ps and Qs: the ABCs of Manners (World Premiere), (Actor) Bunnicula, The Magician’s Nephew, Madeline’s Christmas (2010), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, Machinal, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Afternoon of the Elves, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, If You Give a Pig a Party, Goodnight Moon, Ramona Quimby, Poor Richard, (Set Design) Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Tomfoolery, The Best Man, If You Give a Pig a Party, (Lighting

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Design) Bud, Not Buddy, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, (Scenic Painter) The Merchant of Venice (NEA Tour), Anna in the Tropics; Texas Repertory Theatre: (Director) The Mystery of Irma Vep; College of the Mainland Arena Theatre: (Actor) Henry V, The Spitfire Grill, (Set Design) Mary, Mary, (Choreographer) Fiddler on the Roof; Bayou City Concert Musicals: Assassins; Country Playhouse: A Streetcar Named Desire; Slice of Life Theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Center Stage Productions: Into the Woods; Exit Stage Left: ‘Night Mother; The Creative Company: Burn This; Michigan Opera Theatre: The Music Man. Film: Shades of Red, Emily, Once Again, Dying for Love, Love and Nails. Education: B.F.A., Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Musical Theatre; Associate’s Degree, Washtenaw College, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Eduardo Guzman (Music Director) Main Street Theater: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Curious

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George: The Golden Meatball, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Bunnicula, Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans (Tour); The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Madeline’s Christmas (2014); Other Music Directing Credits: Godspell, Always…Patsy Cline, The Rocky Horror Show, Big Fish, Grease, 9 to 5, All I Really Need to Know...Kindergarten, Alice in Wonderland, Forever Plaid, RENT, Spring Awakening (concert), A Chorus Line, Willy Wonka, Last Five Years, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.Directing Credits: Songs for a New World, MIDTOWN LIVE, tick, tick…BOOM!.Education: B.M., Houston Baptist University, Voice Performance; M.B.A.Candidate, Barklee College, Business Administration.

Brennan Blankenship (Mrs. Lambchop/Hollywood Assistant/Sneak Thief/Bikini Wahini) Main Street Theater: Hello, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle!, A Charlie Brown Christmas;

Teaching Artist; Island, Etc: Disaster! the

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Musical, Winter Wonderettes; EaDo Playhouse: Lizzie the Musical, Spring Awakening; Express Children’s Theater: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Santa’s Rockin’ Reindeer.

Daniel Hicks (Mr. Lambchop/Sam/O.Jay D’Art/Herb Wavecrest/Go-Go Dancer) Main Street Theater: Debut; Express Children’s Theatre: Santa’s Rockin’ Reindeer; Island ETC:

Lobby Hero, Mamma Mia!; Dislocated Theatre: Thom Pain (based on nothing); Pasadena Little Theatre: Proof. Film/TV: The Job Interview, Captain Calloway and the Wonder Brigade. Education: B.A., Stephen F. Austin State University, Theatre.

Chelsea Lerner (Mrs. Cartero/Bulletin Board/Hollywood Assistant/Mona Lisa/Go-Go Dancer) Main Street Theater: Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Tour), Madeline’s Christmas; Art

Factory: Tuck Everlasting; Fort Bend Theater:

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Fiddler on the Roof; HGOco: Princess and the Pea, The Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel, Romeo and Juliet; Texas Repertory Theater: Thoroughly Modern Millie; SRO Productions: Heartbreak USA, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Feeling Alright; University of St. Thomas: Pride and Prejudice. Film/TV: commercial work; Bully, The Musical. Education: B.M., Houston Baptist University, Vocal Performance. Ms. Lerner can be seen later this season in MST’s MainStage production of Master Class.

Scott Lupton (Stanley) Main Street Theater: Pinkalicious The Musical, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Wizard of Oz, Bunnicula, Mockingbird,

Shrek, the Musical, Junie B. Jones: The Musical, Lyle the Crocodile, Goodnight Moon, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Pippi Longstocking: The Family Musical, A Year with Frog and,Toad, The Best Christmas

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Pageant Ever (2013), Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat, Alice in Wonderland, (Assistant Stage Manager) Fancy Nancy: The Musical; Stages Repertory Theatre: Panto Pinocchio; PMT Productions: Edges; Standing Room Only: American Idiot; Bayou City Theatrics: The Wild Party, Aida, Into the Woods, RENT: Live in Concert; The Rocky Horror Show; Theatre Lab Houston: See Rock City & Other Destinations, Reefer Madness; County Playhouse: Hairspray, Bare; ACE Theater: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. Education: The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), Los Angeles, CA.

Taelon Stonecipher (Arthur/Doctor Dan/Hollywood Agent/Napoleon/Go-Go Dancer) Main Street Theater: Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Mr. Popper’s

Penguins, A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Wizard of Oz, Bunnicula, Shrek the Musical, Lyle the Crocodile, Busytown (Tour); Houston Grand Opera: Monkey and

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Francine in the City of Tigers, Carousel; The Ensemble Theatre: Fly; Unity Theatre: Plaid Tidings; Island ETC: Next to Normal, Urinetown, Godspell; Bayou City Concert Musicals: Bells Are Ringing; Stageworks Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors. Film/TV: Bully - A Musical. Education: B.F.A., University of Texas at El Paso, Music Theatre.

Emily Curley (Sound Design) Main Street Theater: Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat (Tour), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, 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.

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David Gipson (Lighting Designer) Main Street Theater: Prague Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet; Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Jackie & Me (2019), Daisy, Hello! Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Holes, Akeelah and the Bee, Bunnicula, Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas, Junie B. Jones The Musical, Lyle the Crocodile, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley; Stargirl, Madeline’s Christmas (2014), A Year with Frog and Toad, The Giver, A Wrinkle in Time, House of the Spirits, The Women, The Trust, Defying Gravity, Watch on the Rhine; 37 Arts and MCC Theater: Runt of the Litter; Infernal Bridegroom Productions: The Hotel Play, Mud, The Danube, former company member; Ensemble Theatre: The Piano Lesson, Home; Contemporary American Theatre Festival: The Late Henry Moss, Thief River; The Goodman Studio: Straight as a Line, The State I’m In; Victory Gardens Theatre: God of Isaac, Drowning Sorrows, Murder in Green Meadows; Pegasus Players: Company, The Lynching of Leo Frank,

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John Callaway Tonight; Organic Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, The Little Prince; Oak Park Festival: Don Quixote, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Twelfth Night; Teatro Vista: Santos and Santos, Broken Eggs, Aurora’s Motive, Journey of the Sparrows, company member; Steppenwolf’s Arts Exchange: Our Town; National Jewish Theatre: Falling in Love with Love; City Lit Theatre: The King, Right Ho, Jeeves; Unity Theatre: Resident artist.

Nicholas Graves (Set Design) Main Street Theater: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Lake Dillon Theatre Company: Tiny Beautiful Things, Rock of Ages; Granbury Theatre Company: Arsenic and Old Lace, You Can’t Take It with You, Footloose; Bigfork Summer Playhouse: The Wedding Singer, Young Frankenstein, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Little Mermaid, Annie, The Full Monty, 9 to 5: The Musical, The Music Man; Little Theatre of the Rockies: Swing: The Musical; Sam Houston State University: Assassins,

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Clybourne Park, Hairspray, Peter and the Starcatcher, Our Lady of 121st Street. Education: M.F.A., Indiana University; B.F.A., Abilene Christian University.

Mark B. Robbins (Properties Design) Main Street Theater: (Properties Design) Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat (Tour), A Year with Frog and Toad, 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, 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

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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.

Amber Stepanik (Costume Designer) Main Street Theater: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Holes; Lone Star College Montgomery: The Normal Heart, Spring Awakening, @Macbeth a Social Media Tragedy, The Student Body, The Rocky Horror Show, 1984, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, The

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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: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Into the Woods, Clements High School: As You Like It; (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: M.F.A. candidate, University of Houston, Costume Technology; B.S., Trinity University.

Saraiah Gonzalez (Performance Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium,

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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 Artistic 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) The Diary of Anne Frank, Jackie & Me, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Goodnight Moon, (Costume Design) Junie B. Jones and a

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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) Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, 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

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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) 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

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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

Greg R. Wehrer, Chair

Toni Henning, Treasurer

Mary Itz, Secretary

Rebecca Greene Udden, Executive Artistic Director

Jason H. Casell

Janet Hansen

Kassie Harris

Kathryn H. Shurin

Andy J. Zitterkopf

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Elizabeth Marshall BlackC. Sidney BurrusKarol Kreymer and Robert CardFran EpsteinChristianne HagemannJill JarvisRodney KoenigJacqueline C. McGregorGreg MarshallSylvia MatthewsLinda K. MayDean O’KelleyKathryn RitcheskeEnid RobinsonVictoria Benson SchutterGuy and Carol StreatfeildThomas TomlinsonElizabeth D. WilliamsMaxwell P. Zimmerman

Rebecca Greene UddenExecutive Artistic Director

Vivienne M. St. JohnTheater for Youth Artistic Director

Jonathan Minchew-GonzalezDirector of Education and Youth Engagement

MAIN STREET THEATER STAFF

Andrew RuthvenMainStage Associate Artistic Director /

Director of Audience Services

Shannon EmerickDirector of Marketing & Communications

Mark RobertsTechnical Director

Peggy VillarrealBusiness Manager / Comptroller

Dwight ClarkMarketing and Development Associate

Angela Harris-Cannizzo Theater for Youth School Shows Manager

Martha OviedoTheater for Youth School Bookings Coordinator

Anais SaenzTheater for Youth School Bookings Coordinator

Danielle DocwraTheater for Youth Production Manager

Adam Thornton Assistant Technical Director

Boone Lacy Shop Foreman / Master Scenic Carpenter

MAIN STREET THEATER STAFF

Rodney Walsworth Properties Master

Front of House Lindsay Ehrhardt, Lauren Evans,

Zack Varela, Peggy Villarreal

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 Arts Connect. Our MainStage operates under Actors’ Equity Association Small Professional Theater contract.

Main Street Theater is funded in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

MAIN STREET THEATER STAFF