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WHO’S WHO

MITCHELL GRECO (Director) is an
Associate Artistic Director at Stages, where
he directed and choreographed Honky
Tonk Laundry, Miracle on 34th Street: A
Live Musical Radio Play, Murder for Two,
Little Shop of Horrors, The Great American
Trailer Park Musical (2018), Five Course
Love, Big Fish, Xanadu, The Honky Tonk
Angels series, Girls Night: The Musical,
Life Could Be a Dream, co-directred Shear
Madness and assistant directed Next to
Normal and Winter Wonderettes. Other
directorial credits include TUTS: All Shook
Up, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror
TAMARA SILER (Creator and Performer) Show and Seussical (Associate Director);
is a veteran of over 80 theatrical Houston Grand Opera: Das Barbecü,
productions in around Houston. Stages: Bayou City Concert Musicals: Bells are
Panto Hansel and Gretel (Witch), Xanadu Ringing, New Girl in Town and The Pajama
(2014, 2017 – Melpomene), Bat Boy: Game; SHSU: The Busy World is Hushed
The Musical (Ruthie/Ned); Ensemble and On the Verge: or the Geography of
Theatre: Front Porch Society (World Yearning.
Premiere – Winnie), Once on this Island
(Asaka); Main Street Theater: Working JONATHAN CRAFT (Music Director)
(Maggie Holmes), Putting it Together (The received his musical education at Boston
Wife), Dog Act (Zetta Stone), Caroline, University and the Royal College of
or Change (Caroline), Seussical the Music (London), and has been working
Musical (Sour Kangaroo); TUTS: The professionally as a pianist and music
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Jewel), director for the last ten years. He most
Chess (Ensemble), Little Shop of Horrors recently served as the associate conductor
(Ronnette); Music Box Theatre: Avenue on the national tour of the musical
Q (Gary Coleman); Bayou City Concert Cats, until Covid-19 returned him to his
Musicals: On the Town (Hildy); Country hometown of Houston. Locally, he has
Playhouse/Queensbury Theatre: Hairspray worked with TUTS, Stages, Queensbury
(Motormouth Maybelle), Dreamgirls (Effie); Theatre, Alley Theatre, A.D. Players
The Little Room Downstairs: A New Brain Theatre, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,
(Lisa); New Heights Theatre: The Life the Symphony of Southeast Texas, and
(Queen); Thunderclap Productions: The many others. He has also worked at
Great Storm; KMS Musicals: Children of many local and colleges and universities,
Eden (Ensemble), Parade (Ensemble, including SHSU, UH, UST, and the Lone
Angela); Film: First Mourner in the award Star College System. Previously, he has
winning short film BULLY: A Musical, been a staff pianist at the Kinkaid School,
Thunderclap Productions. Graduate of MD-in-residence at the Evelyn Rubinstein
Houston’s High School for the Performing
and Visual Arts and Rice University (BA, JCC, and a co-host for the radio show
History). Tamara is also Deputy Director of “Queer Voices” on 90.1 FM. He’s proud to
Admission – Access and Inclusion at Rice call Houston his home, where he lives with
University. his husband Edward and their three cats.
in it; and at Primary Stages, he created
the New American Writers Group. In
addition to Stages, he has directed plays
at these three theatres, TheatreSquared