Artist Bios

Seven Assassins Walk Into a Bar

Callina Anderson (Midas) Main Street Theater: The Woman in Black, Taking Steps, The Hard Problem, Grand Concourse, The Revolutionists; Rec Room: Wolf Play, Dance Nation; A.D. Players: To Kill a Mockingbird; The Ensemble Theatre: Phenomenal Woman, Freeda Peoples, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Platanos y Collard Greens; Unity Theater: On the Exhale; Classical Theater Company: Medea, War of the Worlds, The Return of Sherlock Holmes; Houston Equity Festival: The Outsider, Almost, Maine, The Effect; Mildred’s Umbrella: Come and Go, Well, Dollface; Education: B.A., University of Houston, Theatre. @callinaanderson linktr.ee/callina.anderson

Dwight Clark (Bartleby) Main Street Theater: 26 Miles, Permanent Collection, Mother of the Maid, The Hard Problem, The Book of Will, Design for Living, The Countess, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Chemistry of Change, Serious Money, The Lucky Chance, Tainted Blood; Classical Theatre Company: The Marriage of Figaro, Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Stages: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Veronica’s Room, Panto Cinderella, The Unseen, The Dead Guy, Bright Ideas, Elizabeth Rex, Betty’s Summer Vacation; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Measure for Measure, King John, Romeo and Juliet; Alley Theatre: Angels in America, Three Tall Women; Theater LaB Houston: The Sum of Us; Ashland Street Theatre: Snakebit. Education: North Carolina School of the Arts.

Brad Goertz (Vane) Main Street Theater: Debut; Unity Theatre: Fruitcakes!, The Game’s Afoot; A.D. Players: Esther, Fiddler on the Roof, Forever Plaid, The Sound of Music; The Garden Theatre: Reefer Madness; Opera in the Heights: The Light in the Piazza; Dirt Dogs: August: Osage County; Stages: Next to Normal, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, A Midnight Clear; The Music Box Theater: Company, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!; Queensbury: RENT, Hello, Dolly!, Little Women; Bayou City Concert Musicals: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, On the Town, The Pajama Game; Texas Rep: Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings. Education: M.S., University of Houston, Human Resource Development.

Kara Greenberg* (Rabbit) Main Street Theater: The Best of Everything ( Houston Press Best Supporting Actress Nominee ), Relatively Speaking( Houston Press Best Supporting Actress Winner ), Enemies, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , Working The Musical, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, On Approval; A.D. Players: A Texas Carol & A Texas Carol Part Deux; Stages: Panto Star Force, Sin Muros Latin Play Festival, Wallflower, Bat Boy the Musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Laramie Project; MATCH: The Outsider, Almost Maine; The Alley Theatre: A Christmas Carol; A Comedy of Errors; Theatre LaB Houston: My Name Is Asher Lev; Houston Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure; Regional Credits include: Kith & Kin, Sneaux! (Andy Fickman, Dir.), Like You Like It, The Mineola Twins, The American Plan, The Last Session. Commercials, web hosting, independent films, TV movies, Voiced 30+ Anime series. B.A., University of Texas at Austin, Drama; M.F.A., University of Houston, Theatre. AEA and SAG/AFTRA. karagreenberg.com, @kgbsofunny. ILYASR

Christianne Mays* (Taft) Main Street Theater: 1946 (world premiere), Homebody/Kabul, Full Bloom, Checkhov in Yalta; Alley Theatre: The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Heiress, I Hate Hamlet, The Mousetrap, And Then There Were None, Orpheus Descending; Stages: Speaking in Tongues, Kindertransport, Broken Glass; Classical Theatre Company: Enemy of the People, Hamlet, Ghosts; Houston Shakespeare Festival: King Lear, MacBeth, A Winter’s Tale, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Unity Theater: Barefoot in the Park. Film & TV: Picture Bride, A Woman of Independent Means, thirtysomething. Education: B.A., Rice University; M.F.A., UCLA.

Seth Carter Ramsey (Montana) Main Street Theater: Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word (world premiere); Stoic Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Houston Grand Opera: Il Trovatore; Apprentice Productions: Right Angles; The Garden Theatre: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged); Pronoia Theater: Space Train; Shakespeare in the Shade: Macbeth, Hamlet, Henry V, Oedipus, Medea. Film/TV: For King and Country Entertainment: Unsung Hero; City On A Hill Productions: The LIFE Project. Education: B.F.A., University of Houston. @seth_c_ramsey

Saroa-Dwayne Sasa (Green) Main Street Theater: Debut; The Garden Theatre: Assassins; AD Players: Fiddler On The Roof; University: Uncle Vanya, Sweeny Todd, American Idiot, A Doctor in Spite of Himself. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theater.

Dain Geist (Director / Playwright) Main Street Theater: (Actor) Mother of the Maid, Enemies, Love and Information, Fallen Angels, Love Goes to Press, The Coast of Utopia; 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 Outsider, Almost, Maine, The Effect; Classical Theatre Company: The Government Inspector, Dr. Faustus, Hamlet, Ubu Roi; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Antony & Cleopatra, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Othello, Taming of the Shrew; Education: B.F.A., Adelphi University; M.F.A., Actors Studio Drama School. Member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2015.

Jon Harvey (Sound Design) Main Street Theater: Taking Steps, The Best of Everything. Jon is a company member of Classical Theatre Company. He is a seven-time Houston Press Theatre Award Nominee for Directing (1) and Sound Design (6) winning last year for his design of A Steady Rain produced by Dirt Dogs Theatre Company. He has been doing theatre in Houston for 25 years and has worked with several performing arts organizations in the Houston area, including 4th Wall Theatre Company, A.D. Players, Alley Theatre, Catastrophic Theatre, Country Playhouse, Da Camera, Dirt Dogs, Dos Chicas Theatre Commune, Ensemble Theatre, Fan Factory, Horse Head Theatre Company, Houston Shakespeare Festival, The Landing Theatre, Unity Theatre and the University of Houston.

Torsten Louis (Set Design) Main Street Theater: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Little House Christmas, Darwin in Malibu, The Diary of Anne Frank, Jackie & Me, The Book of Will, Pinkalicious the Musical, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Grand Concourse, and many more. Over the past several years, Torsten has also designed sets for the A.D. Players, Southwestern University, Baylor Opera Theater, Unity Theatre, Stages, Horse Head Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars Humphreys School, Houston Grand Opera To Go!, Opera in the Heights, Mildred’s Umbrella, and several local high schools. Torsten is the design and technical coordinator at Wildfish Theatre in Houston. Education: M.F.A., The University of Texas at Austin; B.A., St. Olaf College.

Macy Lyne (Costume Design) Houston-based freelance costume designer and professor of Theatre at University of Houston Downtown. Main Street Theater: Taking Steps, Stuart Little, Permanent Collection, The Real Inspector Hound, Mother of the Maid, The Secretary, Daddy Long Legs, Men On Boats, The Revolutionists, Into the Woods; Texas theatre company designs include: Street Scene, Happy Days, Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Candide, Rhinoceros, The Barber of Seville for Catastrophic Theatre, TexARTS, 4th Wall Theatre Company, San Jacinto College, Stages, The Ensemble Theatre and many others. She enjoys traveling and has designed for Utah Musical Theatre, Utah State University, and Santa Fe University of Art and Design among others. Opera companies include: Tulsa Opera, Ars Lyrica, Moore’s School of Music, The Houston Grand Opera, The Shepherd School of Music, and Mercury Chamber Orchestra. Film/ Television credits: Music Video: Hannah Herrera Fall Apart; Feature Film: Be Not Afraid; Web Series: Penny Power, ZomBFF (promo shoot). Education: MFA Theatre Design Utah State University. www.macylyne.com

Eric L. Marsh (Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: What the Constitution Means to Me, The Best of Everything, Dog Act, Darwin in Malibu, The Hard Problem, Private Lives, The Book of Will, Enemies, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions), Working, Silent Sky, Putting It Together, Peace in Our Time, A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration, The Real Thing, Close Up Space, Red Hot Patriot: Kick- *** Wit of Molly Ivins, The Coast of Utopia, and more; Texas Repertory Theatre: Smokey Joe’s Café, Sylvia, Wait Until Dark, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Dracula; Ensemble Theatre: The Waiting Room, The Wiz; Sam Houston State University: Rocky Horror Show, Enron, Into The Woods, Bare: A Pop Opera, Nine, Hamlet, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Rent, The Secret Garden, Chicago, Scenes of an Execution, The Full Monty, 42nd Street, South Pacific; TUTS: Like You Like It. Education: M.F.A., Western Illinois University; B.A., CSU – Chico. Professor, Sam Houston State University.

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.

Emma Bacon* (Production Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: Debut; Stages: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, Sin Muros Festival (2023)- 619 Hendricks; Rec Room Arts: Hurricane Diane, Is God Is, Put Your House In Order, A Number, Mrs. President (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023), Peter Pan, Betrayal; TEATRX: La Vida Es Festival (2021 & 2022). Education: B.F.A., University of Houston, Stage Management.

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.

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.