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Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Robin Robinson (Director) Main Street Theater: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Curious George: The Golden Meatball, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, The Last Wife, Ramona Quimby, Duck for President, Seussical, She Loves Me, Quilters, Our Country’s Good, Serious Money, Into The Woods, The Of Self Defense, Chocolate Cake, Old Doves (World Premiere), How To Say Goodbye. Stages: Merrily We Roll Along; The World Of Beauty (World Premiere); Theatre Lab : Avenue X; Search And Destroy; Hyde Park Theatre In Austin: Colonel Mustard (World Premiere); Capitol City Playhouse: Stud Silo (World Premiere); South Pacific; Grayson College: Over 80 Productions including Working, Treasure Island, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Othello, Godspell, Pippin, Grapes Of Wrath, Charlotte’s Web. Film: The Prodigy (Actor); Who's Who for Outstanding Educators; 2014 Educational Theatre Association Educator of the Year for Community Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Colleges. Education: M.A., Texas Woman’s University, Directing; B.S., University of Texas, Austin, Education. Member, TTAO (Texas Theatre Adjudicators & Officials). Alan Brincks (Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy) Main Street Theater: , Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (2018); Alley Theatre: All New Festival- The Supreme Leader; The Classical Theatre Company: The Fair Maid of the West; Unity Theatre: And Then There Were None. Landing Theatre: The Visit. Caduceus Theatre Co: Porcelain; Arkansas Shakespeare Festival: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Julius Caesar; Company One: Green Eyes; Virginia Stage Company: A Christmas Carol; Nebraska Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet; Quintessence Theatre: The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, As You Like It, The Metamorphosis, Mourning Becomes Electra. Sentai Filmworks: Multiple roles. Education: Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY B.F.A., Nebraska Wesleyan University; M.F.A., University of Houston. Claire Hart-Palumbo* (Mrs. Reynolds) Main Street Theater: (Actor) Silent Sky, The Year of Magical Thinking, (2004), Little Foxes, Sisters Rosensweig, (1996), (1992), (Director) Private Lives, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (2017 & 2018), Fallen Angels, Blithe Spirit (1999 & 2011), Present Laughter, Design for Living, On Approval, The Countess, Hayfever, Uncle Vanya, Pride and Prejudice (revival). Stages Repertory Theatre: founding company member. Additional Houston theater credits include The Alley Theatre, Queensbury Theatre; Luciole International Theatre Company, Wordsmyth Theater Company, Texas Repertory Theater, Express Theater, New Heights Theater, Young Audiences, Bayou City Concert Musicals, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Houston Shaw Festival, Country Playhouse, Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY the Group Theater, and Stage West. Regional credits include Julian Theater (San Francisco), Live Oak Theater (Austin), Unity Theater (Brenham), Idaho Repertory Theater (Moscow), Strand Street Theater (Galveston), and Freehold (Seattle). Film: There You Are, Helen Alone, Mulberry Stains, and Driving and Dementia. Teaching: University of Texas (Austin); University of Houston-Downtown; Mercury Studio; Lone Star College system. Education: Sam Houston State University; American Conservatory Theater; University of Texas. Proud union member of Actors' Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. Leslie Lenert (Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy) Main Street Theater: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (American premieres), Bridge to Terabithia, The Magic School Bus Live! The Climate Challenge (Tour); A.D. Players: Godspell, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Joshua and the Ta-Raa, Ta-Raa, Ta-Raa, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Hero Squad (2 & 3), Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY The Diary of Anne Frank, Charley’s Aunt; Theatre Southwest: The Philadelphia Story; Eklektix Theatre Company: Songs for a New World; Bayou City Theatrics: South Pacific; Houston Family Arts Center: Annie, Seussical the Musical, The Sound of Music; College of the Mainland Arena Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing. Education: University of Texas at Austin. Alyssa Marek (Cassie) Main Street Theater: Enemies; Classical Theatre Company: All's Well That Ends Well; Unity Theatre: Brighton Beach Memoirs; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Comedy of Errors; Shakespeare in the Shade: Two Gentlemen of Verona; University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance: Three Sisters, Mr. Marmalade, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, She Kills Monsters. Education: B.F.A., University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance, Acting. Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Skyler Sinclair (Lydia Wickham) Main Street Theater: Private Lives, The Secretary, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (2017 & 2018), Peace in Our Time; The Alley Theatre: Crimes of the Heart; A.D. Players: Around the World in 80 Days, Harvey; 4th Wall Theatre: Shakespeare in Vegas, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Classical Theatre Co.: Lysistrata; Catastrophic Theatre: The University of Tamarie; Unity Theatre: Doubt; Mildred's Umbrella Theatre: Dry Land; Landing Theatre: Oleanna; Celebration Theatre: The Divine Sister; Shakespeare Outreach: Romeo and Juliet (Tour); Education: B.F.A., University of Houston. Blake Weir* (George Wickham) Main Street Theater: Relatively Speaking, The Book of Will, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Enemies, The Last Wife, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions); AD Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Players Theater: The Hiding Place, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Charley’s Aunt; Obsidian Theater's 1984; Mildred’s Umbrella: Mac Wellman’s Dracula; Unity Theatre: Boeing Boeing, You Never Can Tell;; Landing Theatre: Fool for Love; Black Lab Theatre: Really Really; Film: REEL (Post- Production Gin and Tonic Films). Anime: Mitsuboshi Colors (Sentai Filmworks), Release the Spyce, Haikyuu!! (Second Season), My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!; Guest Artist for Explosure at The Nerdist School – Los Angeles, California. Education: B.F.A., Stephen F. Austin State University. On Twitter @ BlakeWeir88 Nathan Wilson (Brian) Main Street Theater: The Wizard of Oz, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (American premieres); Stages Repertory Theatre: Shear Madness, Panto Goldilocks; Queensbury Theatre: Sideshow, For Tonight, Elf. Obsidian Theatre: Cabaret. Texas Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Repertory Theatre: Hair Like the Sun, Hay Fever, Inspecting Carol; Sam Houston State University: Cardenio, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Dog Sees God, Trojan Women, Our Town, This is Our Youth. Janel J. Badrina (Sound Design) Main Street Theater: over 10 seasons including The Weir, Buyer and Cellar; Enemies, Native Gardens, Into The Woods, Close Up Space, Dog Act, Heidi Chronicles, Driftwood, The Last Night of Ballyhoo; Town Center Theater: Julius Caesar, Merry Christmas George Bailey, Night & Her Stars. Over 15 seasons as stage manager. Eric Marsh (Lighting Design) Main Street Theater: , Private Lives (2019), 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, Fallen Angels, Pippi Longstocking, James and the Giant Peach, A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration, , Close Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Up Space, Memory House, Love Goes to Press, Dog Act, Hot Patriot: Kick- *** of Molly Ivins, Jackie & Me, , Blithe Spirit, and many 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. Ryan McGettigan (Set Design) Main Street Theater: Secretary, Men On Boats, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Akeelah and the Bee, Mockingbird, Love and Information, Bridge to Terabithia, Putting it Together, Into the Woods, Civil War Christmas, Close Up Space, Henry Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY V (with Prague Shakespeare Company), Memory House, Richard III (with PSC); Classical Theatre Company: The Birds, The Cherry Orchard, A Christmas Carol, The Importance of Being Earnest, Doctor Faustus, Ubu Roi; Theatre Under the Stars: Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Rocky Horror Show, Million Dollar Quartet, James and the Giant Peach; TUTS Underground: Heathers, Striking 12, Bonnie & Clyde, First Date, LMNOP; Stages Repertory Theatre: Marie Antoinette ( Best Scenic Design Award), Failure, Language Archive, Next to Normal; Catastrophic Theatre: Buried Child, Middletown, Clean/ Through; Cape Rep (Brewster, MA): Indecent, Jerusalem, Eurydice, Beauty Queen of Leenane; Legacy Theatre (Atlanta, Georgia): Music Man, 9 to 5, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; New Orleans Opera: Die Fledermaus, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor; Houston Grand Opera: Bound (World Premiere), From My Mother’s Mother (World Premiere), Your Name Means Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY the Sea (World Premiere); Houston Ballet/ Asia Society Texas: Tsuru; Glimmerglass Festival: Cunning Little Vixen, Trouble in Tahiti, The Odyssey (World Premiere), Robin Hood (World Premiere).www. RyanMcGettigan.com Donna Southern Schmidt (Costume Design) Main Street Theater: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Goosebumps the Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium, Jackie & Me (2019), The Book of Will, Schoolhouse Rock, Live (Tour), Pinkalicious The Musical, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Tour), A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Wizard of Oz; A.D.Players, resident costume designer for 25 years; numerous productions including Charlotte’s Web, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Shadowlands, Stuart Little, Thumbelina, The Diary of Anne Frank, Anastasia, The Fantasticks, Angel Street, Beauty and the Beast, The Importance of Being Earnest, Joyful Noise, The Odyssey, Charlie’s Aunt, Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Alice in Wonderland, The Beams Are Creaking, Curious Savage, Winnie the Pooh, Anne of Green Gables, A Cardboard Christmas, The Jungle Book, Emma, The Hero Squad vs The World’s Angriest Cow, Anne of Avonlea, Winslow Boy, Pride and Prejudice; Express Children’s Theatre: The Yellow Boat, Arabian Nights, To Africa With Love, African Delight, Pablo’s Wonderous Wishes; InterActive Theater Company: Around the World in 80 Days; The Days and Nights of King Arthur; Actor’s Workshop: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Louisiana Tech University: The Music Man. Education: Louisiana Tech University; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. dlsoutherndesigns.com Rodney Walsworth (Properties Design) Over 100 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 Repertory Theatre: Resident Properties Master, 2 Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY ½ seasons; other Houston acting work includes Ensemble Theatre, Theater LaB Houston, Talento Bilingüe de Houston, Stages Repertory Theatre; B&B Productions at Jump Start Theatre (San Antonio): The Laramie Project (Globe Award, Lead Actor – Drama). Resident Properties Master, Main Street Theater. Julie Marie Paré* (Production Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: (Production Stage Manager) Private Lives, The Secretary, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (2018), Buyer & Cellar, The Last Wife, Grand Concourse, RFK, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-A** Wit of Molly Ivins, 1946 (World Premiere), Silent Sky, Time Stands Still, Woof (World Premiere), Breakfast at Eight (World Premiere), (Assistant Stage Manager) The Book of Will, Men On Boats, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (First American Productions), Peace in Our Time, Heartbreak House, Richard III (Prague Shakespeare Company); Stages Repertory Theatre; the Children’s Theatre Festival; Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Houston Shakespeare Festival; The Juilliard School; PCPA Theaterfest; Seaside Music Theater; Birmingham Children’s Theatre; Indianapolis Civic Theatre; Indiana Repertory Theatre; the Centennial Theater Festival; Northern Stage; Kentucky Repertory Theatre at Horse Cave; Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre; Menopause the Musical; Actors Theatre of Indiana; Arts Center of Coastal Carolina; Phoenix Theatre; Florida Repertory Theatre; Walt Disney World. Education: University of Washington. Julie is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Rebecca Greene Udden (Executive Artistic Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) The Hard Problem, The Book of Will, Hecuba and The Trojan Women, Troilus and Cressida, An Iliad and 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 Who’s Who I THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY 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, (World Premiere), Copenhagen, The Miser, Uncommon Women and Others, Pride and Prejudice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NEA Tour), A Little House Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, (NEA Tour), The Diary of Anne Frank, The Taming of the Shrew (NEA Tour), Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, 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, , Hamlet, and more; (Costume Design) numerous productions; Prague Shakespeare Company: (Director) Twelfth Night. Catastrophic Theatre: Advisory Board. Wordsmyth Theater Company: Advisory Board. Member of the American Leadership Forum Class XVI. 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award, Rice University. Founding Artistic Director, Main Street Theater. PRODUCTION STAFF Production Assistants �����������������������Megan Brooks, Sean Miller-Schumacher, Jacob C. Sanchez Stage Management Intern ��������� Sarah Sturdevant Wardrobe Assistant ����������������������� Amanda Adwers

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Greg R. Wehrer, Chair Toni Henning, Treasurer Mary Itz, Secretary Rebecca Greene Udden, Executive Artistic Director Jason H. Casell Janet Hansen Kassie Harris Kathryn H. Shurin Andy J. Zitterkopf ADVISORY COUNCIL Elizabeth Marshall Black C. Sidney Burrus Karol Kreymer and Robert Card Fran Epstein Christianne Hagemann Jill Jarvis Rodney Koenig Jacqueline C. McGregor Greg Marshall Sylvia Matthews Linda K. May Dean O’Kelley Kathryn Ritcheske Enid Robinson Victoria Benson Schutter Guy and Carol Streatfeild Thomas Tomlinson Elizabeth D. Williams Maxwell P. Zimmerman

MAIN STREET THEATER STAFF

Rebecca Greene Udden Executive Artistic Director Vivienne M. St. John Theater for Youth Artistic Director Jonathan Minchew-Gonzalez Director of Education and Youth Engagement Andrew Ruthven MainStage Associate Artistic Director / Director of Audience Services Shannon Emerick Director of Marketing & Communications Mark Roberts Technical Director Peggy Villarreal Business Manager / Comptroller Dwight Clark Marketing and Development Associate Angela Harris-Cannizzo Theater for Youth School Shows Manager Martha Oviedo Theater for Youth School Bookings Coordinator Anais Saenz Theater for Youth School Bookings Coordinator Danielle Docwra Theater for Youth Production Manager Adam Thornton Assistant Technical Director Boone Lacy Shop Foreman / Master Scenic Carpenter Rodney Walsworth Properties Master Front of House Lindsay Ehrhardt, Lauren Evans, Joanna Hubbard, Jonathan Teverbaugh, Zack Varela Main Street Theater (MST) was founded in 1975 to provide stimulating opportunities for Houstonians of all ages to engage with the performing arts while providing meaningful and challenging professional work for Houston theater artists. MST is a fully professional theater with three programs: MainStage, Theater for Youth, and Education Department. Main Street Theater is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theaters, of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (formerly ASSITEJ), the world theatre network of theatre for children and young people, and a founding member of Houston Arts Partners. Our MainStage operates under Actors’ Equity Association Small Professional Theater contract. Main Street Theater is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.