Artist Bios

The 39 Steps

Kevin Crouch* (Richard Hannay) Main Street Theater: Debut; A.D. Players: The Play That Goes Wrong, A Texas Carol, A Texas Carol: Part Deux; Stages: Bad Jews, Luna Gale; Unity Theatre: A Diary of Anne Frank; Dorset Theatre Festival & Barrington Stage Company: Clybourne Park; Connecticut Repertory Theatre: His Girl Friday; Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Two Gentleman of Verona; Great Lakes Theatre: A Christmas Carol, The Seagull, Twelfth Night, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Othello, An Ideal Husband, A Comedy of Errors. Associate Professor of Theatre at Sam Houston State University. Education: M.F.A., New York University, Graduate Acting Program; B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Theatre. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. www.kevin-crouch.com ILYEJA

Meg Rodgers* (Annabella Schmidt/Pamela/Margaret) Main Street Theater: Enemies; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Richard III, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing; A.D. Players: Rock Nativity; Rec Room: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Virginia Stage Company: The Three Musketeers, Henry V; The American Shakespeare Center: Hamlet, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure For Measure, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, A Christmas Carol, Pericles, Une Tempête, Thrive (World Premiere), Twelfth Night, Alls Well That Ends Well, Henry V, Macbeth, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, A King and No King, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Anne Page Hates Fun (World Premiere), Arden of Faversham, As You Like It, Emma, Richard III, Man of Mode, The Belle’s Stratagem, Every Christmas Story Ever Told; Hope Repertory Theatre: Shakespeare in Love, The Old Man and The Old Moon, West Side Story. Education: M.F.A., University of Houston, Professional Actor Training Program; B.A., Slippery Rock University, Psychology.

Chris Szeto-Joe (Clown 2) Main Street Theater: (Actor) The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Taking Steps, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Muscial!, Last Stop on Market Street, The Real Inspector Hound, (Production Crew) Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mother of the Maid, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley; The Sankofa Collective: The Three Musketeers; Stages: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson: Apt. 2B; Crystal Rae Productions: Lions; Shakespeare in the Shade: Twelfth Night: Tapestry Players: The Summer’s Tale (U.S. Premiere), Leading Ladies, Honk!, A Christmas Memory; Express Children’s Theatre: Chinese Folktales: Wit and Wisdom of the Ancients; Legends of Chinese New Year; The Octarine Accord: Blast Radius; Cone Man Running: The Melancholy Play, The 5 Minute Mile: Southwestern University: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Silent Sky, Noises Off, Heathers: The Musical. Film/TV: Saving Savant. Education: B.A., Southwestern University, Theatre, cum laude.

Wesley Whitson (Clown 1) Main Street Theater: Debut; 4th Wall Theatre: Hamlet, Swing State, Fairview, Gloria; The Ensemble Theatre: Chicken & Biscuits, Clyde’s; Houston Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear; REC Room: Dead Rockstar Sing A Long Club, Peter Pan; Dirt Dogs Theatre Co: Clybourne Park; Unity Theatre: The Mousetrap, And Then There Were None, The Wizard of Oz; A.D Players: The Christmas Shoes; Mildred’s Umbrella: Feather’s and Teeth; Prague Shakespeare Co: The Comedy of Errors. Education: B.F.A., University of Houston, Theatre.

Kara Greenberg (Director) Credits Include: Main Street Theater: Seven Assassins Walk into a Bar (World Premiere), The Best of Everything (Houston Press Best Supporting Actress Nominee), Relatively Speaking (Houston Press Best Supporting Actress), Enemies, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions), Working: The Musical, Girls Only, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, On Approval, Oh Kay!;  A.D. Players: A Texas Carol (2022, 2023, 2024); Mighty Acorn Productions: Almost Maine, The Outsider; Stages: Panto Star Force, Sin Muros Latin Play Festival, Wallflower (World Premiere), Bat Boy the Musical, The Laramie Project (Regional Premiere), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; The Alley Theatre: A Christmas Carol; A Comedy of Errors; Landing Theatre: How I learned to Drive; Theatre LaB Houston: My Name Is Asher Lev; Houston Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure; Regional Credits include: Kith & Kin (West Coast Premiere), Sneaux! (World Premiere, Andy Fickman, Dir.), Like You Like It (LA Premiere), The Mineola Twins, The American Plan, The Last Session. Film/TV: national commercials, industrials, web hosting, independent films, made for TV movies, voiced hundreds of roles in over 30 Anime series – see full list on IMDB. Education: M.F.A, University of Houston, Acting/Directing; B.A., University of Texas at Austin, Drama. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. www.karagreenberg.com. ILYASR

David Gipson (Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: The Wind in the Willows, Present Laughter, The Oldest Boy, The Real Inspector Hound, Pete the Cat, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Jackie and Me, The Giver, A Wrinkle in Time, 1946 (World Premiere), The Women, The Trust, Watch on the Rhine, Deep Down; Stages: Elizabeth Rex; Unity Theatre: Billy Bishop Goes to War and many more; Infernal Bridegroom Productions: Speeding Motorcycle and many more; MCC Theater (NYC): Runt of the Litter; Regional credits include Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago): Murder in Green Meadows and more; Village Theatre (WA): Guys and Dolls; Skylight Musical Theatre (WI): Snow Dragon; Cape Fear Regional Theatre (NC): Murder for Two. Education: B.F.A., University of Texas at Austin, Theatre Production.

Ryan McGettigan (Set Design) Main Street Theater: Elephant & Piggie’s: We Are in a Play!, 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

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: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Crown Jewel, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, 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

Paige A. Willson (Costume Design) Main Street Theater: The Woman in Black, The Best of Everything, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Relatively Speaking, Daisy; Instructional Professor of Costume Design and Technology at the University of Houston, costume and mask designer for theatre, dance, and performance art. Lead designer for the U.S. National Exhibit for the Prague Quadrennial 2019: Concordance; Alley Theatre: Crafts Master/ Milliner from 2004- 2009; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Henry 4.1, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2010, 2002, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, The Tempest, As You Like it, The Taming of the Shrew 2011, 2004, The Winter’s Tale; Generations: a Theatre Company: Sweeney Todd; Karen Stokes Dance: Purple; Stephan Koplowitz Task Force: Natural Acts in Artificial Water; A.D. Players: The Hiding Place. Education: M.F.A., University of Houston, Costume/Lighting/Scenic Design; B.F.A., University of Louisiana- Lafayette, Performing Arts/Dance.

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.