Artist Bios

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!

Tristan Flores (Rocky/Dr. Robert/Martha/Maxwell/Pig #3) Main Street Theater: Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical, The Wind in the Willows; A.D. Players Theater: Gift of the Magi, A Midnight Society; Sam Houston State University Theater: Marisol, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Sweeney Todd, Airness, Uncle Vanya, Silent Sky. Education: Sam Houston State University, Musical Theater.

S. Mariah Fonseca (Swing) Main Street Theater: Debut; Express Children’s Theatre: An Art Class with Frieda Kahlo; Glass Half Full Theatre: Cenicienta: A Bilingual Cinderella Story; Mary Moody Northen Theatre: Luchadora!, Godspell, These Shining Lives, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Film/TV: Texas WIC’s Adventures of Zobey and Food Discovery episodes on YouTube; voice acting for upcoming animated movie Adam and Eve. Education: B.F.A, St. Edward’s University, Acting (Musical Theatre minor).

Jessy Martin (Alexander T. Wolf) Main Street Theater: Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical, Stuart Little, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, James and the Giant Peach, Cinderella; A.D. Players: Forever Plaid; STAGEWORKS Theatre: Man of La Mancha; Odeum Theater Company: A Sondheim Special; Creative Movement Practices: Treasure Island; Houston Christian University: Don Giovanni, A Grand Night for Singing. Education: B.A., Houston Christian University, Vocal Performance.

Angela Pinina (Magill) Main Street Theater: Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, The Wizard of Oz, Bunnicula, Duck for President (2016), Shrek the Musical; Catastrophic Theatre: Small Ball, The Tamarie Cooper Show (6 different shows), Speeding Motorcycle; Stages Repertory Theatre: Panto Wonderful Wizard; Garden Theatre: Reefer Madness; Obsidian Theatre: Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens; Dinolion: Lionshare; Lubbock Moonlight Musicals: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast; Queensbury Theatre: Whistle Down the Wind, Man of La Mancha; Strange Bird Immersive: Company Member.

Helen Rios (Prudence/Pig #1)) Main Street Theater: Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wind in the Willows, Stuart Little; Alley Theatre: Wolfie; Stages: POTUS, Body of Christie; The Ensemble Theatre: Akeelah and the Bee, Don’t Worry Willy; Octarine Accord: The Honeycomb Trilogy – Sovereign; Shakespeare in the Shade: Twelfth Night, All’s Well that Ends Well; Houston Grand Opera: A Christmas Carol; Mildred’s Umbrella: Nuncupo; Warner Brothers Entertainment: Harry Potter: A Yule Ball Celebration; Bluff City Theatre (MO): Lower Case. Film/TV: Jem and the Holograms. Education: University of St. Thomas, Drama.

Emily Faith Smith (Julia/Pig #2/Dance Captain) Main Street Theater: Debut; Strange Bird Immersive: Man from Beyond; Sam Houston State University Theater: She Loves Me. Education: Sam Houston State University.

Sarah Swift (Swing) Main Street Theater: Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical, Sleeping Beauty The Musical; Unity Theatre: Honky Tonk Angels; Sam Houston State University Theater: She Loves Me. Education: B.F.A., Sam Houston State University, Musical Theatre.

Paul Gilvary (Composer) has composed original music for numerous shows at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, including Crossing California, Cat’s Cradle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Puss in Boots, Bongo Larry and Two Bad Bears, and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!. By day, Paul is an elementary school music teacher. By night, he plays fiddle and keyboards for the country band Buck Cheaper and the Bargain Hunters.

Robert Kauzlaric (Book and Lyrics) is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and director. He has written more than a dozen theatrical adaptations, which have been performed in nearly forty U.S. states, as well as in England, Ireland, and Canada. His adaptations include The Island of Dr. Moreau (Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards: Best Production-Play and New Adaptation), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Non-Equity Jeff Nomination: New Adaptation), Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (Non-Equity Jeff Award: New Adaptation), The Three Musketeers (commissioned for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and The Woman in White, and a musical version of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. For children, Mr. Kauzlaric has written musical adaptations of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! (called “one of the best children’s shows of the year” by The New York Times), Peter Brown’s Flight of the Dodo, Mo Willems’ Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, and Richard and Florence Atwater’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins, as well as a fanciful twist on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, called Lions in Illyria.

William Rush (Composer) A bandmate to co-composer Paul Gilvary and a student of the mystic arts, William Rush channels musical guides through the ether. A self-described “rhythmic sculptor,” his musical training started with the gift of an AM clock radio and ended with violin lessons at age 8.

Chad Fontenot (Director/Choreographer) Main Street Theater: (Actor) Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Crown Jewel, Stuart Little, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Houston Grand Opera: Salome, Parsifal; Opera in the Heights: L’Italiana in Algeri; Creative Movement Practices: Macbeth; The Garden Theatre:  Into the Woods, While Childhood Slept; Art Park Players: Mamma Mia, Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers; Education: B.A., Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Theatre (Acting/Directing emphasis, Dance minor); A.A., San Jacinto College, Music.

Debbie Wylie (Musical Director) Main Street Theater: Daddy Long Legs, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Duck for President, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile; TUTS Audition and Rehearsal Accompanist; Stages Theatre: The Marvelous Wondrettes, Panto 2013; Queensbury Theatre: Sideshow, For Tonight (regional premiere), The Drowsy Chaperone; Unity Theatre: Nunsense, Nuncrackers, Little Women, Godspell; Second Baptist School: Bye Bye Birdie, Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Hello Dolly!, Guys and Dolls, The Little Mermaid; Cypress Ranch High School: Shrek, Legally Blonde, Anything Goes; Bridgeland High School: Evita, Cats; countless other shows and venues.

Sarah St. John (Assistant Director) Main Street Theater: (Assistant Director) The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, (Directing Intern) Junie B. Jones: Toothless Wonder, (Dramaturg) The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, (Run Crew) : The Pigeon Gets a Bigtime Holiday Extravaganza! (World Premiere), Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cinderella, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown.

Mariana Pérez (MST JEDI Directing Fellow) is a Mexican actress, director, and educator passionate about creating theater that bridges cultures and generations. She has directed Captain Star / Capitán Estrella, a bilingual play for young audiences performed at the Consulate of Mexico, The Music Inside of Me, a short film featured at La Vida es Cortos Festival. She also served as Assistant Director on El Llano en Llamas with HAPAA Houston and is currently Assistant Directing Duermevella with Teatro Loft. Mariana is especially interested in theater for youth and in the imaginative possibilities of theater with objects. She is committed to nurturing curiosity, creativity, and cultural pride in young audiences while continuing to grow as a director and storyteller.

Afsaneh Aayani (Puppet Design) Main Street Theater: The Pigeon Gets a Bigtime Holiday Extravaganza! (World Premiere), Kim’s Convenience, The Wind in the Willows, Charlotte’s Web, Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus, Dog Act, The Oldest Boy, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe plus numerous puppetry credits; Regional Credits: Cincinnati  Playhouse: English; The Old Globe: English; Alliance Theatre: English; Alley Theatre: Alley All New Festival, A Christmas Carol; Chautauqua Theater: Birthday Candles; American Stage: Disgraced; Two River Theater: Romeo and Juliet; Theatre Under the Stars: The Ugly Christmas Sweater, Frozen; Trinity Rep: Alabaster; Other Credits: Meow Wolf Houston; Heartbeat Opera: Extinctionist; Catastrophic Theatre: Turn of the Screw, Innominate, Cleansed, Waiting for Godot, A Maroon’s Guide to Time and Space; Stages: Roe, Black Superhero Magic Mama, Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B; El Paso Opera: Frida, Sunday in the Park With George; Houston Grand Opera: Big Swim; Houston Shakespeare Festival: King Lear; Theatre of the Republic: Finding Nemo the Musical; PBS Arkansas: Blueberry’s Clubhouse; Moores School of Music: Little Shop of Horrors. Education:  B.F.A., Tehran University of Art, Puppetry; M.F.A., University of Houston, Scenic Design.

Hayley Christensen (Sound Design/Assistant Stage Manager/Sound Engineer) Main Street Theater: (Sound Design) The Wind in the Willows, Stuart Little, Miss Nelson Is Missing! The Musical!, The Last Stop on Market Street, (Assistant Stage Manager/Sound Engineer) Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, (Sound Engineer) The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Charlotte’s Web; Lionwoman Productions TX: Dancing Lessons, Playhouse Creatures; Weathervane Theater: Addams Family, Kinky Boots, Amadeus, Disaster!, Green Day’s American Idiot, Buyer and Cellar, Pippin, The Mountaintop, Always…Patsy Cline; Utah Valley University: Silent Sky, Constellations, King Stag, Love and Information, Gruesome Playground Injuries.

Mitchell Cronin (Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Fancy Nancy The Musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Junie B. Jones: Toothless Wonder, The Weir, The Secretary, Buyer and Cellar, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Pinkalicious, Daddy Long Legs, Junie B. Jones Is Not A Crook, A Charlie Brown Christmas,  The Last Wife, Native Gardens, How I Became a Pirate, The Revolutionists, RFK, Red Hot Patriot, Goodnight Moon and many more; Prague Shakespeare Company at MST: Much Ado About Nothing, Venus in Fur, Twelfth Night; Stages: Panto Cinderella, Panto Wonderful Wizard, Panto Snow Queen: Unfrozen; The Ensemble Theatre: Josephine Tonight, Eighth Day of The Week, Simply Simone*, The First Noel, A Soulful Christmas*; Catastrophic Theatre Company:Happy Days, Curse of The Starving Class*, Small Ball, Tamarie’s Merry Evening of Mistakes and Regrets (*Industry Award); additional Houston credits include Classical Theatre Company, A.D. Players, Horse Head Theatre, Prohibition Theatre, Opera in the Heights, DiverseWorks. Education: M.F.A., University of Maryland. www.JMCdesigns.info

Lauren Davis (Properties Design/Scenic Charge) Main Street Theater: (Props Design) The Pigeon Gets a Bigtime Holiday Extravaganza! (World Premiere), Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Musical, The Wind in the Willows, Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School, The Diary of Anne Frank, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Jackie & Me, (Scenic Charge) The Wind in the Willows, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Sherlock Holmes, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Don’t let the Pigeon drive the bus, Dog Act, A Year with Frog & Toad; Catastrophic Theater: (Properties Design and Charge Scenic Artist) Miss Laraj, Love Bomb, Spirits to Enforce, Tamarie’s TX Toast, Rhinoceros, (Properties Design) Cleansed, Curse of the Starving Class, Snow White, Trevor, Buried Child; Open Dance Project: (Properties Design) OZ, Red Landscape, 1968, Bonnie & Clyde, Galapagos; Stages: (Charge Scenic Artist) Alma en Venta, Panto Wonderful Wizard, Panto Unfrozen, Mack and Mabel, Xanadu, Panto Goldilocks, Road Show, Panto Mother Goose, Panto Red Riding Hood. Ms. Davis also works locally as a decorative painter and mural artist.

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

Amber Stepanik (Costume Design) Main Street Theater: The Pigeon Gets a Bigtime Holiday Extravaganza! (World Premiere), Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Sleeping Beauty The Musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Present Laughter, Cinderella, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!, The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, A Year with Frog and Toad, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Holes; Lone Star College Montgomery: Gruesome Playground Injuries, Little Shop of Horrors, The 39 Steps, Mamma Mia!, The Normal Heart, Spring Awakening, @ Macbeth a Social Media Tragedy, The Student Body, The Rocky Horror Show, 1984, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, The Shape of Things, Miss Firecracker Contest, Green Day’s American Idiot, The Birds, 96 Minutes; Queensbury Theatre: Unlock’d, Also Hunchback of Notre Dame, Illyria, Footloose, Antigone, Book of Will. Education: M.F.A., University of Houston, Costume Design & Technology; B.S., Trinity University. www.amberstepanikportfolio.com

Curmira A. Bill (Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: (SM) The Pigeon Gets a Bigtime Holiday Extravaganza (Rolling World Premiere), Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!”, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical!, Cinderella, Last Stop on Market Street, Dragons Love Tacos, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, A Little House Christmas, (Asst. SM) The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, (Actor) Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook; Ensemble Theatre/Alley Theatre: (SM) Radio Golf (Reading); Ensemble Theatre: (SM) Pullman Porter Blues, Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou (Houston Rolling World Premiere); Lionwoman Productions TX: (SM) Playhouse Creatures, Dancing Lessons; Alley Theatre: (SM) Whitelisted (Reading), The Brainstormers & Their Cosmic Mission. Education: B.A., Oral Roberts University, Theatre Arts.

Vivienne M. St. John (Theater for Youth Artistic Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, A Little House Christmas, The Diary of Anne Frank, Jackie & Me, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Goodnight Moon, (Costume Design) Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, Superfudge, Henry and Ramona, The Great Gilly Hopkins, If You Take a Mouse to School, Sideways Stories from Wayside School; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Assistant Production Manager, Visiting Mr. Green with Eli Wallach, Hay Fever with Joanne Woodward and Calista Flockhart, Jitta’s Atonement with Dianne Wiest, Free Fall with Sandy Duncan, Bill Graham Presents with Ron Silver; Company Manager: Four of a Kind, Good Company, Woman in Mind with Marlo Thomas and Elizabeth Franz, Over the River and Through the Woods; Production Manager: The Ray Davies Show. Worked at several Houston theaters including TheatreLab, Express Children’s Theater, and The Houston Grand Opera. Main Street Theater’s Theater for Youth Artistic Director since 2000.

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.

Front of House Staff

Kacie Adams, Emily Buesing, Jake Cummings, Lindsay Ehrhardt, Faheemah Karim, Domenico Leone, Sethe Nguyen, Mark B. Robbins, Laura St. John, Sarah St John, Lindsay Steel, Zack Varela