Artist Bios

Tamara Siler – Sinners and Saints

Songs from a life upon the wicked stage and other divine inspirations!

Tamara Siler Tamara is a veteran of over 90 theatrical productions in and  around Houston. Her first professional role was at Main Street Theater as Viney in THE MIRACLE WORKER. Since then, MST audiences might remember her in the following: WORKING, PUTTING IT TOGETHER (The Wife), DOG ACT (Zetta Stone), CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Caroline), SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL (Sour Kangaroo). Around Houston, highlight performances include – Stages Repertory Theatre: PANTO HANSEL AND GRETEL (Witch) XANADU (2014, 2017 – Melpomene), BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL (Ruthie/Ned). Ensemble Theatre: FRONT PORCH SOCIETY (World Premiere – Winnie), ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (Asaka). TUTS: THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS (Jewel), CHESS (Ensemble), LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Ronnette). Music Box Theatre: AVENUE Q (Gary Coleman). Bayou City Concert Musicals: ON THE TOWN (Hildy). Country Playhouse/Queensbury Theatre: HAIRSPRAY (Motormouth Maybelle), DREAMGIRLS (Effie). The Little Room Downstairs: A NEW BRAIN (Lisa). New Heights Theatre: THE LIFE (Queen). Cabaret: Paul Hope Cabarets at Ovations, Stages Studio Series. Film: First Mourner in the award-winning short film BULLY: A Musical. Tamara has served on four theatrical boards, and is the current treasurer for Thunderclap Productions.

Trey Morgan Lewis Main Street Theater: Dog Act; Theatre Under the Stars: Sister Act, The Wiz; Moore Vision Entertainment: Once On This Island, Godspell; Pearl Theater: The Wiz, To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Evers’ Boys; Bayou Theatre Co.: The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, Fences; PVAMU Theatre: The Piano Lession; G.W. Carver Theatre: The Color Purple. Education: Prairie View A&M University; Sam Houston State University.

Angela Pinina Main Street Theater: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs,  Diary of a Wimpy Kid,  Sleeping Beauty, the Musical, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Curious George, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, Wizard of Oz, Bunnicula, Duck for President, Shrek the Musical.  The Catastrophic Theatre: Tamarie Cooper Shows: Speeding Motorcycle, Small Ball. The Garden Theatre: Company, Reefer Madness. Dinolion: Lionshare. Obsidian: Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens. Stages: Panto: Wonderful Wizard. Company Member: Strange Bird Immersive.

Whitney Zangarine Main Street Theater: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, Ramona Quimby; Mildred’s Umbrella: Cry It Out; The Garden Theatre: Company, Cruel Intentions (Intimacy Director), Reefer Madness (Intimacy Director), Bonnie & Clyde (Intimacy Director); A.D. Players: The Play That Goes Wrong; Unity Theatre: Crimes of the Heart; Paul Hope Cabarets: Company member.

Andrew Ruthven (Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) Kim’s Convenience, Taking Steps, Permanent Collection, Dog Act, The Weir, Daddy Long Legs; The Revolutionists, A Year with Frog and Toad, Into the Woods, A Catered Affair, (Actor) Mr. Pim Passes By, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf; Unity Theatre: (Director) Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Godspell, The Fantasticks; Theater LaB Houston: (Actor) Assassins. Education: M.F.A., University of Houston; B.A., University of Texas at Austin.

Steven Jones (Music Director) Main Street Theater: Fancy Nancy: The Musical, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Crown Jewel, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Tour), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School, A Year with Frog and Toad, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Pinkalicious, The Wizard of Oz, Shrek the Musical, Pippi Longstocking, Alice in Wonderland, Flora, the Red Menace, Into the Woods, Urinetown, The Light in the Piazza, Schoolhouse Rock, Live!; Stages: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, Mack and Mabel, Next to Normal, Grey Gardens, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Company; Theater LaB Houston: The Musical of Musicals, Passion, Johnny Guitar, The Rink; A.D. Players: West Side Story, The Fantasticks, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Unity Theater: A Grand Night for Singing, Forever Plaid, Master Class; Texas Repertory Theater: Illyria; The Ensemble Theatre: Once On This Island. Education: B.A., Baylor University, Music; M.A., University of Texas, Music.

Edgar Guajardo (Lighting Design) Edgar Guajardo is a Lighting and Scenic Designer/Theatrical Producer/ Poet/ Actor/ Painter/Carpenter originally from Pharr, Texas, but has been residing in Houston for 10 plus years. Main Street Theater: Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word (world premiere), Trouble in Mind; Disney Live: (Assistant Electrician) Mickey Mouse’s Rockin Road Show; Queensbury Theatre Company: Former Assistant Technical Director; Opera in the Heights: Resident Lighting Designer; Deluxe Theater FWCRC: Production Manager. Education: B.F.A., University of Houston, Theatrical Production, emphasis in Lighting Design and Scenic Design.

Jacob C. Sanchez (Sound Design) Main Street Theater: (Sound Design) 26 Miles, Permanent Collection, The Real Inspector Hound, Darwin In Malibu, The Hard Problem, Copenhagen, (Set Design) Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, (Actor) Mother of the Maid, (Production Assistant) Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Revolutionists, Working, 1946 (World Premiere), Love and Information, (Sound Engineer) La Fille du Laitier at MST: Macbeth Muet, Prague Shakespeare Company at MST and in India: An Iliad, Much Ado About Nothing; Tardigrade Theater Company: Purple, A Dragon’s Tale; Doorman Actors Lab: Mud; Noir Dame Productions: Over Here Over There, War of the Worlds; Lone Star College Montgomery: A Year with Frog and Toad; San Jacinto College South: The Grey Zone, Wonder of the World, Woyzeck, Cabaret. Education: San Jacinto College South.

Rodney Walsworth (Props Design/Set Dressing) Over 120 productions as actor, director, set designer, properties and sound design including Wolf Hall, Darwin in Malibu and The Woman in Black. Recent prop designs include The Coast Starlight, Purlie Victorious, Seven Assassins Walk into a Bar, The 39 Steps and The Lightning Thief. Resident Property Designer/Set Dresser: Main Street Theater.

Nychollete Easter (Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: (Assistant Director) The Woman in Black, (Directing Fellow) Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word (world premiere), (Production Assistant) Purlie Victorious : A Non – Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, (Production Crew) Kim’s Convenience, Leopoldstadt, (Teaching Artist); The Ensemble Theatre: (Stage Manager) Stew, The Bluest Eye (Assistant Stage Manager) Take The Soul Train To Christmas; The Black Rep (St. Louis): (Director) Turn Up!, (Assistant Director) Jitney, Stamping, Shouting, Singing Home, Waiting for Martin, (Assistant Stage Manager) Sweat.

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, An Iliad and Twelfth Night with Prague Shakespeare Company (MST collaborations), Holes, Enemies, Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions), Silent Sky, Peace in Our Time, Heartbreak House, The Real Thing, The Coast of Utopia, The Heidi Chronicles, Arcadia, Caroline, or Change, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, 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, The Sisters Rosensweig, 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.