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WHO’S WHO

MITCHELL GRECO (Director) is the Artistic
Associate 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
HOLLAND VAVRA (Creator and Performer) Show and Seussical (Associate Director);
was most recently seen in her twenty-fourth Houston Grand Opera: Das Barbecü,
show (before the world stopped) at Stages Bayou City Concert Musicals: Bells are
in Honky Tonk Laundry as Katie Lane Ringing, New Girl in Town and The Pajama
Murphy; National Tour: Roy Orbison & Game; SHSU: The Busy World is Hushed
Buddy Holly Rock & Roll Dreams Tour with and On the Verge: or the Geography of
BASE Hologram; TUTS: Pippin (Leading Yearning.
Player) and Stages: Xanadu (Kira), both
at Miller Outdoor Theatre. Other Stages JONATHAN CRAFT (Music Director)
credits include: Big Fish (Sandra Bloom), received his musical education at Boston
Honky Tonk Angels & Honky Tonk Angels University and the Royal College of
Holiday Spectacular (Sue Ellen), The Music (London), and has been working
Marvelous Wonderettes series including professionally as a pianist and music
original cast of The Marvelous Wonderettes: director for the last ten years. He most
Dream On (Suzy Simpson), Panto recently served as the associate conductor
Goldilocks (Goldilocks), Steel Magnolias on the national tour of the musical
(Shelby), The Great American Trailer Park Cats, until Covid-19 returned him to his
Musical (both productions, Pippi & Jeanie), hometown of Houston. Locally, he has
Girls Night: The Musical (Anita), Andrews worked with TUTS, Stages, Queensbury
Brothers (Peggy), The Spitfire Grill (Percy); Theatre, Alley Theatre, A.D. Players
Queensbury Theatre: Side Show (Daisy), Theatre, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,
ELF (Deb); TUTS: LMNOP (Agatha), James the Symphony of Southeast Texas, and
and the Giant Peach (Sponge), Reefer many others. He has also worked at
Madness (Placard Girl), 110 in the Shade many local and colleges and universities,
(Snookie), The Music Man, A Christmas including SHSU, UH, UST, and the Lone
Story, Dreamgirls, Beauty and the Beast Star College System. Previously, he has
(Silly Girl). Proud member of Actors Equity been a staff pianist at the Kinkaid School,
since 2006. Owner of Freddie & David MD-in-residence at the Evelyn Rubinstein
(Etsy: freddieanddavid) JCC, and a co-host for the radio show
“Queer Voices” on 90.1 FM. He’s proud to
call Houston his home, where he lives with
his husband Edward and their three cats.