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WHO’S WHO

EBONI BELL (Director) Stages: Panto
Hansel and Gretel (Director); Houston
Grand Opera: Katie: The Strongest of
the Strong (Director) Marion’s Song
(Assistant Director) Iconotheatrix, Director/
Choreography: Spring Awakening, Chicago,
Rent, The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee. Choreography: Heathers,
Carrie; Express Children’s Theatre:
Freedom Train (Director) BFA: Sam
Houston State University. Eboni is a
co-founder of the youth theatre
Iconotheatrix and a Native Houstonian.
Eboni is the Theater Manager for Stages
where she manages the rental program for
MARK IVY (Creator and Performer) The Gordy and is responsible for all front of
Stages: The Fantasticks (El Gallo), house operations for performances in the
Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour), Five new space.
Course Love, Shear Madness (Tony),
Xanadu (Thalia), Girls Night, Life Could JOSH MORRISON (Sound Designer) is the
Be a Dream (Eugene), Next to Normal Associate Artistic Director of Stages where
(Henry), Rabbit Hole (Jason), various he has been a staff member since 2001.
Pantos; Alley Theatre: A Christmas Carol, Josh has worked as an actor, director, fight
Twelfth Night (Fabian), Alley All New choreographer and technical director for
Festival – Songs From Mrs. Mannerly with the past 20 years with Houston theaters
Richard Kind; TUTS: Seussical (Horton), such as Stages, The Alley Theatre, AD
All Shook Up (Dennis), Little Shop of Players, Catastrophic Theatre, Rec Room,
Horrors (Seymour), James and the Giant Main Street Theater, Unity Theater,
Peach (Centipede), The Music Man, 4th Wall Theatre Company, Atomic Cafe,
Oliver; TUTS Underground: First Date Houston Shakespeare Festival, Horsehead
(Reggie – Houston Press Theater Awards Theater, and many others. Favorite roles/
Breakthrough Performance 2015), Reefer productions include: The Elaborate
Madness (Ralph – BroadwayWorld Best Entrance of Chad Deity (Director), The
Supporting Actor in a Musical 2014); Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Burt
AD Players: Godspell; Various BCCM Barricune), A Christmas Carol (Spirit
productions. Mr. Ivy was also in Beyoncé’s of Christmas Present/Bert), The Royale
music video for ‘Blow’. BFA in Musical (Max), Nixon’s Nixon (Henry Kissinger),
Theatre from SHSU. Humphrey’s School The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Pilate/
of Musical Theatre alumnus! Proud Freud/Burt), Orange Flower Water (Brad),
AEA member. This is for Jacob and my Veronica’s Room (Director), West Side
wonderful family. Thanks to Eboni, Ciara Story (Fight Choreographer/Shrank/
and Keith for all of their hard work. Follow Gladhand), The Taming of the Shrew
him: @ivyonce (Petruchio), Lion in Winter (Richard),
Rounding Third (Don), The Odd Couple
(Oscar), Wittenberg (Director), and The
Bear (Smirnov). Josh is also a voice actor
with Sentai Filmworks.