Artist Bios

The Year of Magical Thinking

Pamela Vogel* (Joan) Main Street Theater: Peace in Our Time (Best Supporting Actress Finalist Houston Press 2014). Recent credits include Peg Smith in Swing State at 4th Wall Theatre and Frau Schmidt in The Sound of Music at Houston Grand Opera; Additional credits: 4th Wall Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy, The Lifespan of a Fact, Small Mouth Sounds, Body Awareness; Catastrophic Theatre: Leap and the Net Will Appear; AD Players: The Sound of Music, The Lilies of the Field; Unity Theatre: Doubt; Classical Theatre Company: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Triumph of Love (Best Supporting Actress Finalist 2012), Tartuffe; Stages: Southern Rapture; Texas Repertory Theatre: The Lion in Winter, Wit; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Othello, The Taming of The Shrew; Regional work includes the Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Utah Shakespeare Festivals. Pamela is a collective member of the Houston Equity Festival who, in May 2021, produced and performed in the digital full-feature Miss American Pie – A Historical, Political, and Culinary Monologue. In 2019, she appeared in Wit for the festival and subsequently developed an online class as Vivian Bearing PhD, performing the role, playing scenes with and engaging students in discussion about the play. She teaches the class for high school English and university medical humanities students. www.pamelavogelhomepage.com

Rebecca Greene Udden (Director/Executive Artistic Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) 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.

Liz Lacy (Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: Debut; Thunderclap Productions: Melville & Hawthorne; Galveston College: Purple, The Taming of the Shrew, Cosi, The Tragical Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. (Director) Galveston College: Airness, All in the Timing, The 39 Steps, More Fun Than Bowling, The Revolutionists, Silent Sky; Tardigrade Theatre Company: A Dragon’s Tail, Purple; Doorman Actor’s Lab: MUD. (Scenic Design) Lone Star College-Montgomery: The Tempest, A Year with Frog & Toad, Places in the Skull. Education: M.F.A., University of Houston; B.F.A., Sam Houston State University.

Rodney Walsworth (Set Design/Resident Property Artist) Over 115 productions at Main Street Theater as actor, director, set designer, properties designer, sound designer including 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, Main Street Theater.

Yezminne Zepeda (Sound Design) Selected Works: Main Street Theater: What the Constitution Means to Me, The Oldest Boy, The Last Wife, The Revolutionists; 4th Wall Theatre Company: Swing State, The Father, Random Acts, As You Like It, The Realistic Joneses. Alley Theatre: The Emporium, Torera (World Premiere), Alley All New Festival, A.D. Players: Texas Carol, No One Owns Me, The God Committee, Tuesdays with Morrie; Catastrophic Theatre: The Book of Grace, Tragedy A Tragedy.

Julie Marie Paré* (Production Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: (Production Stage Manager) Taking Steps, The Best of Everything, Trouble In Mind, Darwin In Malibu, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Private Lives, The Secretary, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Last Wife, Grand Concourse, RFK, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-A** Wit of Molly Ivins, Silent Sky, (Stage Manager) Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, (Asst. Stage Manager) The Book of Will, Men On Boats, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions), Peace in Our Time; Stages; The Children’s Theatre Festival; Houston Shakespeare Festival; The Juilliard School; PCPA Theaterfest; Seaside Music Theater; Birmingham Children’s Theatre; Indianapolis Civic Theatre; Indiana Repertory Theatre; the Centennial Theater Festival; Northern Stage; Kentucky Repertory Theatre at Horse Cave; Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre; Menopause the Musical; Actors Theatre of Indiana; Arts Center of Coastal Carolina; Phoenix Theatre; Florida Repertory Theatre; Walt Disney World. Education: University of Washington. Julie is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 45,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFLCIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org

*Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, [Producer], and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.