Artist Bios

Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”

Carly Arguelles (Swing) Main Street Theater: Debut; Playhouse 1960: Hello, Dolly!, Bright Star; Inspiration Stage: 9 to 5: The Musical. Education: B.F.A., Drake University, Musical Theatre Performance.

Jake Cummings (Squirrelle / Understudy for Gerald) Main Street Theater: Sleeping Beauty The Musical; Unity Theater: Godspell; The Garden Theater: Assassins; Strange Bird Immersive: The Man from Beyond; Stageworks Theater: Matilda: The Musical; A.D. Players Theater: (staged readings) Brother Andrew, The Burn Vote. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theater.

Miles Estes (Gerald) Main Street Theater: Sleeping Beauty The Musical; A.D. Players Theater: (Metzler New Works Festival) How To Die: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Sam Houston State University Theater: The Prom, Uncle Vanya, 365 Days/365 Plays, Airness, Almost Maine, What the Constitution Means to Me. Education: Sam Houston State University.

Joy Germany (Squirrelle) Main Street Theater: 26 Miles, Carmela Full of Wishes; Pearl Theater: The Revolutionists; Stages: Sin Muros A Latinx Theater Festival; University of Houston: The Wolves, Rumpelstiltskin. Film/TV: Over the Causeway by Pablo Mejia. Education: University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance, Acting.

Mac Hardy (Piggie) Main Street Theater: Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type; Unity Theatre: Jack and the Bean Stalk, The Mousetrap; Sam Houston State University Theatre: Hands on a Hard Body, Richard III, Creature, Memphis; Ohio Outdoor Theatre: Grease, Winnie the Pooh. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre.

Megan Jankovic (Swing) Main Street Theater: Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Mockingbird, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Junie B. Jones: Toothless Wonder, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!, Cinderella, Charlotte’s Web, Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School, The Diary of Anne Frank, A Year with Frog & Toad, Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Jackie & Me, Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Tour), Pinkalicious, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Tour), Duck for President, 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 Houston State University.

Sethe Nguyen (Squirrelle) Main Street Theater: Debut; Art Factory: The Rocky Horror Show, The Wild Party; Texas Tech University: Xanadu, Water by the Spoonful, The Secretaries, Bike America. Education: B.F.A., Texas Tech University, Acting.

Laura Moreno (Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) Carmela Full of Wishes, Last Stop on Market Street (Costume Design) Fancy Nancy The Musical, Miss Nelson Is Missing! The Musical!, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Dragons Love Tacos; Alley Theatre: (Assistant Director): A Midsummer Night’s Dream, What-a-Christmas!; Mildred’s Umbrella: Ladies’ Night: Beckett Shorts; Lamar University: The Revolutionists; Jewish Community Center: Photograph 51; Horse Head Theatre Company: Church, Judgement of Fools; Gravity Players: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Duchesne Academy: Little Women, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Comedy of Errors, Antigone; Edgar Guajardo Theatrical Productions: School of the Americas. Education: M.F.A, University of Houston, Directing; M.A, University of Houston, Arts Leadership; B.F.A., University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance, Acting.

Jeffrey Gordon (Music Director) Main Street Theater: Debut.

Nadya Mercado (MST JEDI Artist Directing Fellow) Main Street Theater: (Assistant Director) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Sam Houston State University: (Director) Mr. Wolf, (Assistant Director) Endgame, (Actor) Cry It Out, All in the Timing, Airness; A.D. Players: (Actor) Burn Vote Staged Reading); Mayde Creek High School: (Director) Brave Navigator. Education: Sam Houston State University.

Mitchell Cronin(Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: Fancy Nancy The Musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Junie B. Jones: Toothless Wonder, The Weir, The Secretary, Buyer and Cellar, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Pinkalicious, Daddy Long Legs, Junie B. Jones Is Not A Crook, A Charlie Brown Christmas,  The Last Wife, Native Gardens, How I Became a Pirate, The Revolutionists, RFK, Red Hot Patriot, Goodnight Moon and many more; Prague Shakespeare Company at MST: Much Ado About Nothing, Venus in Fur, Twelfth Night; Stages: Panto Cinderella, Panto Wonderful Wizard, Panto Snow Queen: Unfrozen; The Ensemble Theatre: Josephine Tonight, Eighth Day of The Week, Simply Simone*, The First Noel, A Soulful Christmas*; Catastrophic Theatre Company:Happy Days, Curse of The Starving Class*, Small Ball, Tamarie’s Merry Evening of Mistakes and Regrets (*Industry Award); additional Houston credits include Classical Theatre Company, A.D. Players, Horse Head Theatre, Prohibition Theatre, Opera in the Heights, DiverseWorks. Education: M.F.A., University of Maryland. www.JMCdesigns.info

Ryan McGettigan (Set Design) Main Street Theater: Taking Steps, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Crown Jewel, Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, The Secretary, Men On Boats, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Akeelah and the Bee, Bridge to Terabithia; Additional Selected Credits: Classical Theatre Company: Ubu Roi, Doctor Faustus; Theatre Under the Stars: Rock of Ages, Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Rocky Horror Show; Stages Repertory Theatre: Marie Antoinette, Failure, Language Archive, Next to Normal; Catastrophic Theatre: Speeding Motorcycle, Baby Screams Miracle, Fefu and Friends; 4th Wall Theatre: Doll’s House Part Two, Jesus Hopped the A Train, Pride and Prejudice; Queensbury Theatre: Elf the Musical; Cape Rep (MA): Noises Off, Indecent, Jerusalem, Eurydice; Legacy Theatre (GA): Music Man, 9 to 5; Houston Grand Opera: Bound (World Premiere), From My Mother’s Mother (World Premiere); Glimmerglass Festival: Cunning Little Vixen, Trouble in Tahiti, The Odyssey (World Premiere), Robin Hood (World Premiere). www.RyanMcGettigan.com

Melissa Pritchett (Choreographer) Main Street Theater: Debut; Alley Theatre: Twelfth Night, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Winter’s Tale, Sense and Sensibility; Bayou City Concert Musicals: Promises, Promises, The Pajama Game. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre.

Shawn W. St. John (Sound Design) Shawn is an award-winning sound designer, composer, producer, audio engineer and voice artist. He has worked with Tony Award winning sound designer Tony Meola, as well as notable actors, playwrights and directors, including Eli Wallach, Sandy Duncan, Christopher Fitzgerald, Joanne Woodward, Calista Flockhart, Arthur Storch, Joe DiPietro, Beth Henley, John Rando, Jason Nodler and Mickle Maher. Sound designs include Main Street Theater: Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Crown Jewel, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Men on Boats, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Wolf Hall; A.D. Players: Miss Maude, Dear Jack, Dear Louise; The Catastrophic Theatre: Baby Screams Miracle, Speeding Motorcycle, Booty Candy; Unity Theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Becky’s New Car; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Quills, Wilder Wilder; Additionally, Mr. St. John designs/mixes musicals for several educational theaters, and is a voice over artist and voice actor. Education: B.A., Rollins College, Theatre. www.fiver.com/stjohnstudios

Amber Stepanik (Costume Design) Main Street Theater: Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Present Laughter, Cinderella, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, A Year with Frog and Toad, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Holes; Lone Star College Montgomery: Gruesome Playground Injuries, Little Shop of Horrors, The 39 Steps, Mamma Mia!, 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 Shape of Things, Miss Firecracker Contest, Green Day’s American Idiot, The Birds, 96 Minutes; Queensbury Theatre: Unlock’d, Also Hunchback of Notre Dame, Illyria, Footloose, Antigone, Book of Will. Education: M.F.A., University of Houston, Costume Design & Technology; B.S., Trinity University. www.amberstepanikportfolio.com

Rodney Walsworth (Properties Design) Over 120 productions at Main Street Theater as actor, director, set designer, properties designer, sound designer including The Year of Magical Thinking, Enemies and Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions); Stages: Resident Properties Master, 2 ½ seasons; other Houston acting work includes The Ensemble Theatre, Theater LaB Houston, Talento Bilingüe de Houston, Stages; B&B Productions at Jump Start Theatre (San Antonio): The Laramie Project (Globe Award, Lead Actor – Drama). Resident Properties Master and Set Dresser, Main Street Theater.

Curmira A. Bill (Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: (Stage Manager) Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type; Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!, Cinderella, Last Stop on Market Street, Dragons Love Tacos, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, A Little House Christmas, (Assistant Stage Manager) The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, (Actor) Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook; Ensemble Theatre/Alley Theatre: (Stage Manager) Radio Golf (Staged Reading); Ensemble Theatre: (Stage Manager) Pullman Porter Blues, Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou (Houston Rolling World Premiere); Lionwoman Productions TX: (Stage Manager) Playhouse Creatures; New Era Theatre: (Actor) The Sweet Sky, Small Kings; Exalted Arts: (Actor) Mary’s Song, The Great Exchange; Houston Revels: (Actor) Christmas Revels (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022); Express Children’s Theater: (Actor) Santa’s Little Helper. Education: B.A., Oral Roberts University, Theatre Arts.

Vivienne M. St. John (Theater for Youth Artistic Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, A Little House Christmas, The Diary of Anne Frank, 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. Worked at several Houston theaters including TheatreLab, Express Children’s Theater, and The Houston Grand Opera. Main Street Theater’s Theater for Youth Artistic Director since 2000.

Rebecca Greene Udden (Executive Artistic Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) The Year of Magical Thinking, Mother of the Maid, Darwin in Malibu, Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue, 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), 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, American Leadership Forum Class XVI.