Artist Bios

Memoriam

Dillon Dewitt (Chris) Main Street Theater: Debut; Catastrophic Theatre: Tamarie’s Texas Toast, It Is Magic, Tamarie Cooper’s Totally True Revue (Plus Lies, Too), They Do Not Move, Tamarie Cooper’s Live In-Person Sticky Sweet Summer Show!; Houston Music Classifieds: Lungs; Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre: Tooth & Tail, The Hunchback of Seville; Firecracker Productions: Bob: A Life in Five Acts; Classical Theatre Company: R.U.R., All’s Well That Ends Well; Ensemble Theater: Sassy Mommas, In All Thy Getting, Br’er Rabbit; Fade to Black: Uncle Tom’s Hangar, Jesus, The Good Time Charlie; Obsidian Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra.

Dain Geist* (David) Main Street Theater: (Actor) Mother of the Maid, Enemies, Love and Information, Fallen Angels, Love Goes to Press, The Coast of Utopia, (Director/Playwright) Seven Assassins Walk into a Bar; A.D. Players: A Texas Carol, A Texas Carol Part Deux, The Sound of Music; Stages: Black Super Hero Magic Mama; Houston Equity Festival: The Effect; Classical Theatre Company: The Government Inspector, Dr. Faustus, Hamlet, Ubu Roi; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew; Education: B.F.A., Adelphi University; M.F.A., Actors Studio Drama School. Member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2015.

Julia Krohn* (Rachel) Main Street Theater: Debut; Original Las Vegas Company of Jersey Boys (Lorraine); NYC Credits: ABBA’s Kristina (pre-Broadway workshop), Joy (Off-Broadway); Regional: Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Mack and Mable; Theater Under the Stars: The Ugly Christmas Sweater Musical, Anything Goes, Cats, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Man of La Mancha, Spamalot, A Chorus Line, Elf, Hands on a Hardbody, Sweet Potato Queens, All Shook Up; Alley Theatre: Cowboy Bob, A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes, Toward Zero, Quack, The Three Musketeers; Catastrophic Theatre: Small Ball; Teaching experience: St. John’s School (Houston), The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Houston), The Professional Performing Arts School (NYC); First Place both as Presidential Scholar in the Arts and NFAA.

Chesley Ann Santoro* (Rivka) Shubert Theater, Broadway: A Chorus Line; Houston Music Theater: Carousel, Brigadoon, The King and I, and others; Alley Theatre; A…My Name Is Alice, Tomfoolery, Stepping Out, Eschelon; Theater-on-the-Square, San Francisco: A…My Name Is Alice; Theater Under the Stars: All Shook Up, Pippen, Music Man, Wonderful Town and others: Houston Theater Center: Carnival, Scrooge, Brigadoon; Miller Outdoor Theater: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors; Desert Inn, Las Vegas: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Stages: Baby; Houston Grand Opera: Showboat; Houston Pops Orchestra: Special Appearance; Unity Theater: The Glass Menagerie, The Dining Room, Harvey, Arms and the Man, Enchanted April, Arsenic and Old Lace.

Sammi Sicinski (Becky) Main Street Theater: Debut; Mildred’s Umbrella: Cry It Out, O: A Rhapsody in Divorce, Oh My God, Well; Stages: 619 Hendricks (Sin Muros Festival); Firecracker Productions: BOB: A Life in Five Acts, Becky Shaw; The Octarine Accord: Advance Man (The Honeycomb Trilogy Part 1); TEATRX: Sonia Flew; On The Verge Theatre: Love, Loss and What I Wore; Rogue Productions: I Love You Because; Obsidian Theatre: A Drag Christmas Carol, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Young Frankenstein; The Landing Theatre: Devil Dog Six, All in the Timing; Boiling Point Players: A Midsummer’s Night Dream, True Story; Cone Man Running: Melancholy Play, Separating the Art; Queensbury Theatre: As Bees in Honey Drown. Education: B.A., University of Houston, Theatre.

Noga Flaishon (Playwright)

Noga Flaishon is a neurodivergent British/Israeli writer and producer. Initially training as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, she worked in the industry for several years before transitioning to full-time writing and producing in 2020. She is a writer and producer at Big Finish Productions, creating audio dramas in the Doctor Who universe. She writes for Six to Start, contributing to the interactive mobile game Zombies, Run!. She is also completing an MFA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Noga’s work has been recognised by the Arts Council of England, The Offie Awards, The Standing Ovation Awards, Papaptango Award, Verity Bargate Award, The King’s Head Theatre, Pleasance Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, and The Jewish Play Project, among others.

Noga’s credits include but are not limited to: 100 Years of Waiting (The Hope Theatre), Broken Link (OnComm-nominated, The Living Record Festival, The Space Theatre, Brighton Fringe), Bunker (Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe), Lethe (Standing Ovation Award-nominated, King’s Head Theatre), and A Mother’s Love (Doctor Who audio drama, Big Finish Productions).

Her work explores mental health, memory, and gender politics, often blending sci-fi, horror, and magical realism to tell poignant and unsettling stories about real-life issues.

Julia Oppenheim (Director) Main Street Theater: The Best of Everything, The Secretary, RFK; Stages Repertory Theater: The Ultimate Christmas Show Abridged; Classical Theatre Company: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Henry V, Miss Julie, The Triumph of Love, Candida; Catastrophic Theatre: Fefu and Her Friends; A.D. Players: Harvey; Unity Theatre: Becky’s New Car, Doubt, The Miss Firecracker Contest, Shooting Star, Almost Maine, Greater Tuna, The Importance of Being Earnest, Angel Street, Enchanted April, Cyrano; Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company: Dry Land; Stark Naked Theatre Company: All Girls; Texas Repertory Theatre: The Lion in Winter, Art, Wit, The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare Abridged; Rice University: Bob: A Life in Five Acts, Mauritius, Private Eyes; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: (Assistant Director) The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, Bach at Leipzig, Yes, No, Maybe So, A Christmas Carol, Cyrano. Education: M.F.A., University of Houston, Theatre.

Lee O Barker (Set Designer) Main Street Theater: (Set Design) The Best of Everything, The Real Inspector Hound, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, (Properties Design) Pete the Cat, (Sound Engineer) The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (2015); Alley Theatre: (Scenic Design Assistant) A Christmas Carol (2022), (Set and Props Design) Oskar’s Not-so-simple Comeback; The Coterie Theater (Kansas City, MO): The White Rose: We Defied Hitler, Beat Bugs: A Musical Adventure, Secret Soldiers: Heroines in Disguise; University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory: An Italian Straw Hat; Classical Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew; Queensbury Theatre: Outside Mullingar; Ensemble Theatre: Plenty of Time; Mildred’s Umbrella: Cloud Tectonics, Mac Wellman’s Dracula; Late: A Cowboy Song; Lamar University: Assistant Professor, (Set Design) As You Like It, Peter Pan, Dumb Show, Dangerous Corner, The Incredible Fox Sisters. Education: M.F.A., University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory, Theatre Design and Technology.

Amelia Rico (Projections Design) Main Street Theater: (Director) 26 Miles, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Book of Magdalene, (Student Productions) The Never Ending Story, Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars; (Actor) Winnie the Pooh; Mildred’s Umbrella: (Director) Oh My God, Contemporary American Theater Festival: (Actor) Ushuaia Blue; Earnest Holley Memorial Theater: (Director) Clara’s Play; Theatre Collide: (Actor) Skriker, A Work in Granite; Film & TV: Blumhouse: (Actor) Madres; ABC: (Actor) Grey’s Anatomy; AMC: (Actor) Dark Winds; Paramount Television: (Actor) Yellowstone, 1923; The CW; Walker; Netflix: (Actor) Rich Kids (DTLA Best Ensemble 2018), Mo; Ricornel Productions: (Writer/Director) The Investment (Houston Latino Film Festival 2025), Break My Soul (BIFA 2024), Ride or Die (Texas Short Film Festival Award Finalist 2024), (Writer) Vilomah (Austin Indie Fest Director’s Choice 2019, Xerb.TV), ZomBFFs (DTLA Screenplay Finalist 2020), Fine (LFI Inclusion Fellowship Semi-Finalist). Education: B.A., University of Houston, Acting/Directing, (Film Studies Minor). www.ameliarico.com

John Smetak (Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: 26 Miles, Permanent Collection, Mother of the Maid, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Men on Boats, Relatively Speaking, Copenhagen, Into the Woods, A Catered Affair, A Number/Machinal, Master Class, The Pie Dialogues, The Light in the Piazza, Caroline, or Change, Anna in the Tropics, Homebody/Kabul, Intimate Apparel, The Secret Garden, Margin for Error, On the Razzle, Somebody’s Sons, The Little Foxes, Eating Crow; (Stage Manager) Ouroboros, Wondergirl, The Weir, The Laws of Storms; Stages Repertory Theatre: Honky Tonk Laundry, Who’s Holiday, The Ultimate Christmas Show, Who Am I This Time, Girls Night Out, Gideon’s Knot, Wittenberg, Mistakes Were Made, Yankee Tavern, Panto Pinocchio, The Man from Nebraska, A Picasso, Panto Cinderella, Lady, The Unseen, Amy’s View, Baby, Castro’s Beard; Catastrophic Theatre: Buried Child, Waiting for Godot, Endgame; Classical Theatre Company: Candida; Stage Supervisor for Lighting & Projections at Miller Outdoor Theatre. ETCP Entertainment Electrician. B.A., University of Houston, Theatre.

Rodney Walsworth (Props Design) 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 and Set Dresser, Main Street Theater.

Yezminne Zepeda (Sound Design) Selected Works: Main Street Theater: What the Constitution Means to Me, Carmela, Full of Wishes, The Oldest Boy, James and the Giant Peach, Julia and the Script Writer, The Last Wife, The Revolutionists; Alley Theatre: 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; 4th Wall Theatre Company: Random Acts, As You Like It, The Realistic Joneses.

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.

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