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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
RAVEN JUSTINE TROUP (Creator and Show and Seussical (Associate Director);
Performer) Stages: Sensitive Guys (Tyler/ Houston Grand Opera: Das Barbecü,
Tracy), Little Shop of Horrors (Crystal); Bayou City Concert Musicals: Bells are
TUTS: Elf the Musical (Jovie), Spring Ringing, New Girl in Town and The Pajama
Awakening (Isle), Seussical the Musical Game; SHSU: The Busy World is Hushed
(Gertrude), Mamma Mia! (Lisa), and and On the Verge: or the Geography of
The Wiz (Ensemble); Alley All New: The Yearning.
Aves (Young Woman), When We Left
(Avline), and Sophia (Xerxes); The Alley KEITH LALONDE (Music Director) brings
Theater: Amerikin (Chris), Skeleton Crew over fifteen years of experience behind the
(Asst Director), and A Christmas Carol piano to his Stages debut. He primarily
(Martha); Obsidian Theater: For Colored serves as the worship pianist at St. Peter
Girls... (Orange); Art Factory: Hedwig United, a music director at both Island ETC
and the Angry Inch (Yitzhak), Funny Girl and HITS Theatre, and as an accompanist
(Fanny), Heathers the Musical (Chandler), for school programs throughout the
Disenchanted (Princess Who Kissed Greater Houston area. Classically trained
but diversely experienced, Keith enjoys
the Frog), Spelling Bee (Marcy), The singing and playing with choirs, jazz
Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda) bands, and musicals both home and
Brooklyn the Musical (Paradice), Lizzie abroad. in Fayetteville, AK, Shakespeare
the Musical (Lizzie), and Jekyll & Hyde and Company in Massachusetts, Syracuse
(Emma). Stage, the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival,
the St. Lou Fringe Festival, Studio Arena
Theatre in Buffalo, American Stage in
Florida, and in New York, at Ensemble
Studio Theatre, Theatre of the New City,
and countless other places. He directed
the Arabic premiere of Our Town in Cairo.
He received the 2004 and 2006 Northern
Ohio Live award, the 2014 Houston
Theatre Award, and numerous nominations
by the Houston Theatre Awards and the
St. Louis Theatre Critics Circle Awards for
his direction. He considers himself a lucky
man.