company

Blair Ault

Blair is the Marketing/Public Relations Manager for Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company, and a recent graduate from the Honors College at the University of Houston. At a younger age, she performed with various theatrical companies in the Houston Area including Theatre Under the Stars, The Alley Theatre, and several community theatres. Blair is also an alum of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and has interned with Diverseworks! and the Texas Renaissance Festival. She now works as a creative services personnel for the Honors College, teaches musical theatre with the TUTS outreach program, and concots other ways to avoid sleep.

Zachary Doss

Zachary is resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager for Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company. Notable productions as dramaturg include (University of Houston) On the Verge, The Good Woman of Setzuan, Katrina: The Bridge, bobrauschenbergamerica; (Horse Head Theater) Red Light Winter; (Nova Arts Project) O3: The Oedipus Project, Hamlet: Re-Envisioned, Wars of the Roses Cycle; (Mildred’s Umbrella) Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Last Easter, Margo Veil. He also served as Dramaturgy Intern on Cyrano de Bergerac and as Assistant Dramaturg on the world premiere of Gruesome Playground Injuries, both at the Alley Theatre. When he isn’t busy doing theater, he spends his time reading books, writing books, plays, poems, or whatever else he feels like, and being hopelessly addicted to social media.

Ryan Kelly

Ryan made his debut with Mildred's Umbrella in 2007 in a short skit in 365 Plays/365 Days, and went on to play Daniel in Dark Matter and Earl in Haunt of Flies. He has a long history of theatre, both acting and directing in the southwest side of town in Fort Bend County with an occasional appearance in the Clear Lake area. Favorite productions include Sylvia, Noises Off, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Foreigner, See How They Run, We Must Kill Toni among many others. He’s a graphic designer by day (which started the working relationship with MU in the first place), to which he’s eternally grateful. He does all of the graphic design for Mildred’s Umbrella’s Fabulous posters and programs.

Julie Boneau

Mildred’s Umbrella acting credits: The Marriage of Bette and Boo, A Long History of Neglect, Museum of Dysfunction II. Other acting credits include The Catastrophic Theatre: The Tamarie Cooper Show – Journey to the Center of My Brain, The Splasher; Theatre LaB Houston: Frozen, Sinkhole (for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Celebration at The Alley Theater); Main Street Theater: Present Laughter; Main Street Youth Theater: Ramona Quimby; Dos Chicas Theatre Commune: Stream of Consciousness, Out at Sea; BLP: The Order of the Scarlet Cat, Asshole Parade, Oedipus Rex; Theatre Illuminata: Thirst; Wandering Troupe in association with Fan Factory: KBBJ; The Ornery Theater: The Adding Machine. College of the Mainland: Spinning into Butter. Julie was the recipient of the Outstanding Debut Performance Award at COM for her performances in Spinning into Butter. In addition to acting, Julie has written/directed/acted in her short one-woman show called Going Coastal: The Ladies of I-10 at Mildred’s Umbrella’s Museum of Dysfunction II and also at The 2008 Freneticore Fringe Festival where her original show won the award of “Audience Favorite”. She also performs regularly with La Chicana Laundry Pictures (films: Scrito ep. II, Dolls, The Demented Domestic, Vilut, Pants the Cat: The Devil’s Bride and Mutually Assured Destruction). Education: B.S., Lamar University, Theatre; M.A., University of Houston School of Theatre.

Bobby Haworth

Bobby is a Mildred's Umbrella company member. Recent productions include The Flu Season, Elixir of Love, Alice and the Underground, Gate of Heaven, A Murder of Crows, The War of the Roses and Love Loves a Pornographer. He is represented by Acclaim Talent in Austin TX, who he has actually heard from once or twice. Bobby would like to thank everyone involved in the production for their creativity and hard work.

Sara Jo Dunstan

Sar

a Jo Dunstan has been in the theater since she was knee-high to a pig’s eye (and stopped growing at that point as well).In 2008, she received her BA in Theatre from UH and currently attends South Texas College of Law (yes, she's lost her mind). She is currently the board secretary of Mildred's Umbrella. She made her MU debut as “Nell Gwynn” in Compleat Female Stage Beauty and received rave reviews. She also appeared in MU’s Margo Veil, The Marriage of Bette & Boo, and several Museum of Dysfunction short plays. In 2010, Sara Jo wrote her first short play, Inductive Reasoning, which premiered at Museum of Dysfunction, and can be viewed in its entirety on Youtube. Sara Jo has worked previously Main Street Theater, Great Caruso, Unhinged, Bootown, Wordsmyth, Catastrophic, and Theatre LaB, and founded Sexy Girl/Badass Bro Productions (which doesn’t really do anything except donate a few bucks here and there to cool theater productions).

Mia Migliaccio

Mia made her acting debut in Houston in June 2008 in bare: a pop opera at Country Playhouse. She has performed with Mildred’s Umbrella in Museum of Dysfunction II and was the assistant stage manager for Compleat Female Stage Beauty. She has worked with several theaters in Houston including Main Street Theater (The Light in the Piazza), College of the Mainland Theater (Doubt, My Funny Valentine), National Repertory Theater (Scorched), Company OnStage (Dangerous Corner, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and Country Playhouse (bare: a pop opera, Times Square Angel, MADCAP 24, The Act of Murder). She has a B.A. in Geography from The University of Texas at Austin and works as a GIS Analyst during the day.

Candyce Prince

Candyce made her debut with Mildred's Umbrella in the summer of 2009 with The Museum of Dysfunction II- A Showcase of Shorts, starring as Sarah in The Most Effective Way, written by Jennifer Decker. She then went on to play the title role of Margo Veil in MU's fall 2009 production. Candyce has since appeared in Under the Big dark Sky for MU as Miss Larkin, under the direction of Trish Rigdon. With a BFA in theatre from Adelphi University Candyce has been active in the Houston theatre scene since her return from New York in 2005. She has portrayed a variety of characters throughout her career in Houston such as Sophia in Fools by Neil Simon(Theatre Southwest) as well as singing space cadet Jubilee Climax in Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Unhinged Theatre). One of her most recent roles was the snobby sister and a daddy's girl in her role as Becky in Love and Marriage: Texas Style, a southern take on Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew (Houston Family Arts Center). She recently made her directorial debut in Museum of Dysfunction IV with Cloud Cover and she is always up for any challenge that heads her way.

Rod Todd

began working with Mildred's Umbrella in the Galveston run of 365 Days/365 Plays. Other MU credits include Under A Big Dark Sky along with Museum of Dysfunction III & IV. Rod is also part of MU's Children's Theatre out-reach program. Rod has recently appeared with the Fan Factory (Comrades and An Adult Evening Of Shel Silverstein.) Other credits include CAST Theatrical (Moonlight & Magnolias), Boo Town (Houston Fringe Festival), Strand Theatre (Sherlock's Last Case and A Midsummer Night's Dream) and COM Theatre (The Kentucky Cycle, Dinner With Friends, Ten November, The Hothouse and The Boys Next Door.)

Will Morgan

Will studied drama at San Jacinto College South, SUNY Purchase, and Brock University in Ontario. There he appeared in Arthur Miller's The Crucible In An Age of Terror and Paul Thompson's Border Collective. In Houston, Will has appeared in Main Street Youth Theatre's Taming of the Shrew, Lend Me a Tenor and Wit at Texas Repertory Theatre, and H.Y.P.E. at the Alley Theatre, among others. Will also worked with Nova Arts Project, appearing in The Bacchae and The Conduct Of Life. Will performed a season of summer stock at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre in Iowa where he appeared in Guys and Dolls and You Can't Take It With You. Will was a featured non-dancing dancer in the opera Armide with Mercury Baroque. Most recently, Will appeared in Margo Veil with Mildred’s Umbrella and Mud produced by Doorman Actors Lab, the theatre he and his life-partner, the Lovely Lydia Lara co-founded. Purple Monkey Dishwasher.

Ashley Allison

Ashley has worked with Mildred’s Umbrella in several shows including Margo Veil, Lonely Odd Creatures and Alice and the Underground, which won the audience choice award at the Freneticore Fringe Festival. Ashley has also worked with Nova Arts Project in The Bacchae and Gate of Heaven. She would like to thank her boyfriend for all his support and writing her bio. Ashley is also featured in the Mildred's Umbrella pin up calendar.

Mark Carrier

Mark Carrier - Mark made his Mildred's Umbrella Debut in 2007 with 365Days/365 Plays, and went on to perform in the role of Bunce in One Flea Spare.

Some other roles of interest are: Oedipus the King, Order of the Scarlet Cat (Brazosport Little Players), The Adding Machine, 365 Plays/365 Days (Kid Ornery Theatre), ...for those that live in cities,Envy the Cockroach (Dos Chicas Theatre Commune), Shel's Shorts, Carl The Second, Tape (Fan Factory Theater Company). Recent directing credits include: The Lower Depths (Dos Chicas Theatre Commune) and A Raisin in the Sun (Country Playhouse).

John Wind

John has participated in numerous theater productions in Houston. He is a theater “ Jack of all trades,” and has acted, directed, designed lighting, built sets — all areas of theater production. He was seen on stage as the Ringmaster in Mildred’s Umbrella’s Eros: A Circus.(2002) Other favorite roles include: Bill in Kama Sutra (2001), Johnny in 1940’s Radio Hour (at Company Onstage), Dromio in Comedy of Errors and the Narrator in The Good Doctor. He recently directed The Sugar Bean Sisters, Eleemosynary and Incorruptable at The Company Onstage. Recently he has done light design for Dracula, By the Bog of Cats and Triptych.

Elizabeth Seabolt

Elizabeth Seabolt-Esparza has been acting in Houston since she was twelve making her debut appearance as Gloria in Wait Until Dark at Playhouse 1960. She has appeared at Theatre Southwest as Maggie in Lend Me a Tenor, Meredith in Five Women Wearing the Same Dress and Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird. With Upstage Theatre she has appeared as Deidre McDavey in I Hate Hamlet. She appeared as Gregory in Romeo and Juliet at Country Playhouse (mainstage) and Terry in Extremeties (Country Playhouse blackbox). At Company Onstage she appeared as Fanny in As It Is In Heaven, Sorel in Hay Fever and Millie in Picnic. At Fan Factory she played the role of Kimberly Bergalis in Patient A. She appeared in Tamalalia 4 with Infernal Bridegroom as ensemble playing various flora and fauna and such. With Dos Chicas she appeared as Demimondaine in For those Who live in Cities, Kaitlyn in Envy the Cockroach, Gina in Media Darlings and Nastya in the Lower Depths. In the summer of 2005 they also produced her short play Deadbolt as part of the Stream of Consciousness/Verge of Insanity piece. With Mildred's Umbrella she appeared as Mary Clifford in Dark Matter, a variety of different parts in the Suzan Lori Parks 365 Days/365 Play project and as Mistress Revels in Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Emily in The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Life/Queen of Cups in Notions of Right and Wrong,and Hermia in Dead Man’s Cell Phone . With Pandora Theatre she has performed as Xenia James in Star Chamber and wrote and acted in Revenge Fantasy for Pandora Theatre's secomd Vox Feminina. Her play The Evening News was produced in the second Museum of Dysfunction and her play Crap was produced in the forth one. She has directed for two Museum of Dysfunctions for The Most Effective Way and Obsession.She served as Assistant Director for the production of True West at Theatre Southwest and was also a featured guest artist for the Freneticore Fringe Festival in 2008. She has a B.A. in Drama from University of St. Thomas.

Philip Hays

For Mildred's Umbrella, Philip has directed Margo Veil and designed sound for The Flu Season. As a founding member of BooTown, he has collaborated on and performed in Cut Down, IMA ZO!!!, Fitcher's a Bastard but His Bird's Alright, and the Grown-up Storytime series. Other acting credits include Coast of Utopia (Main Street Theater); Kriegie Wartime Log (Gingerhead Productions); The Barber of Seville (Houston Grand Opera); The Triumph of Love, Candida, and Tartuffe (Classical Theatre Company); As You Like It and King Lear (Prague Shakespeare Festival/Classical Theatre Company); Among the Thugs (Horsehead Theatre); This Is Our Youth (Mosaic Theatre Company); and Cymbeline, Pericles, Twelfth Night, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Houston Shakespeare Festival). He is a graduate of the University of Houston and has studied commedia dell'arte under Antonio Fava at the International School of the Comic Actor.

Bruce Wind

Bruce has been involved in theatre since April 1994 when he was the sound board operator at Houston Community College-SW. He has also been involved in productions at the Shakespeare-By-The-Book Festival, Company Onstage, Unity Theatre in Brenham, and Mildred's Umbrella. His duties have included stage manager, light board operator, sound board operator, sound design, carpenter, electrician, painter, and some acting. Acting credits include Othello, Midsummer Nights Dream, Lonestar, and The Good Doctor. His previous productions at Mildred's Umbrella are Tomorrow Morning, Dracula, The Third Side, Museum of Dysfunction II, Last Easter, and Night of the Giant.

Anthony Rathbun

Photographer Anthony Rathbun is based in Houston Texas. His photography can be viewed at www.anthonyrathbun. com.

Jonathan Shafer

Jonathan has been seen dragging Walt Zipprian's body off stage at the end of Night of the Giant, and was the Stage Manager for Margo Veil. for which he would like to apologize to the people of Lithuania. Jonathan is a student at the University of Houston, where he may yet graduate with a degree in English Literature.

Trish Rigdon

Trish Rigdon has been a director, producer, and designer in theatre for the last dozen or so years and recently began doing the same in film. She served for four consecutive seasons (2003 – 2006) as the Associate Director/Producer for the Peter Hall Company Season at Theatre Royal Bath with the acclaimed director Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and former Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Great Britain. Her work with Sir Peter included West End productions of the 50th anniversary of Waiting for Godot and You Never Can Tell, US tours of As You Like It (2003 & 2005), US tour of The Importance of Being Earnest with Lynn Redgrave, and Measure for Measure for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s season of the complete canon in 2006. Other productions with the Sir Peter at Theatre Royal Bath include Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Habeas Corpus, and Galileo’s Daughter (World Premiere). She also worked with Sir Peter on Romeo and Juliet at Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles. Other directing credits include: LaLlorna (Express Theatre, Houston); Hecuba, True West, No Exit, The Laramie Project, Antigone and Spike Heels (Rice University, Houston).

Credits as Costume Designer include: The Importance of Being Earnest with Lynn Redgrave (National Tour); Crime and Punishment, Blackbird Cincinnati Playhouse, Lord of the Flies, Round House Theatre; Waiting for Godot, You Never Can Tell (London, West End) Measure for Measure, Habeas Corpus, Miss Julie, Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Galileo’s Daughter, Don Juan (Peter Hall Company, Theatre Royal Bath and UK tours), Oocam’s Razor (film). The Gold (Arts With an Impact – Houston) Credits as Lighting Designer include: Texas Contemporary Dance Initiative; City Dance Company 2000 - 2005; Phantasmagoria, Dancing Off the Page (Chrysalis Dance Company). Assistant Lighting Designer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Broadway, London, Steppenwolf Theatre); American Buffalo (Off-Broadway, Donmar Warehouse); Top Dog/Underdog (Steppenwolf Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center) The Goat, Of Mice and Men, As Bees in Honey Drown, Comedy of Errors (Alley Theatre); Lemonade (Alley Theatre, Off-Broadway).

Trish was the Director of Theatre for Rice University 2003 - 2007 where she previously served as Associate Director 2000 - 2003. She holds an MFA in Theatre from University of Houston where she also now teaches in the School of Theatre & Dance, Graduate Design Program. She also serves as the Chair of Education for Women in Film and Television – Houston and is the Executive Director of Houston Cinema Arts Society, which presents Cinema Arts Festival Houston in November each year focused on films and new media by and about artists in the visual, performing, and literary arts.

Danitra Luers

Danitra is proud to be a Mildred’s Umbrella company member. Her MU stage management credits include: Cuckoos, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and Under the Big, Dark Sky. She performed in the Museum of Dysfunction III and directed a short piece for Museum of Dysfunction IV. She is currently working for Main Street Theater doing a little bit of everything: Props Mistress, Production Assistant, Acting/Theater Instructor, and as Assistant Stage Manager for their Youth Theater productions. She also works on a variety of indie film and web projects and is in the process of learning more about lighting and stage carpentry. Danitra is a graduate of the University of Houston’s English department.

Dylan Fitzpatrick

is a student at the University of Houston and was stage assistant for the Estess Years tribute through the Honors College, ran the Christmas Lights Show at Memorial City Mall, and was recently sound operator for Under The Big Dark Sky and Notions of Right and Wrong for Mildred’s Umbrellla, as well as sound designer for Museum of Dysfunction IV. He’s also worked with many dance productions, including the 2011 Big Range Dance Festival.

Jennifer Decker

Jennifer is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company. Mildred’s projects include Kama Sutra (director), Eros: A Circus (acrobat), Things Being at the Worst (Puttenesca), Tomorrow Morning (Claire), Mac Wellman’s Dracula (Vampirette), [sic] (Babbette), Triptych (director), A Long History of Neglect (Justine) Dark Matter (director), One Flea Spare (Darcy), and A Murder of Crows (director). In the last few years, she has also worked as actor, director, producer or advisor with many other independent Houston Theatres, including Dos Chicas, Fan Factory, The Landing Theatre, Thunderclap Productions, Wordsmyth Theatre, The Nova Arts Project, Unhinged Productions, the national reading of The Laramie Project: 10 years Later, and others. She has an MLA in English and an MLA in Drama from St Thomas University. Her writing has been published in Laurels and the Allegheny Review. She also teaches English at Houston Community College.

John Harvey

John Harvey is co-founder of Mildred’s Umbrella, and the writer of several of our plays: Kama Sutra, Eros: A Circus, Things Being at the Worst, Tomorrow Morning, Hotel Pasiphae, Needful Creatures, Night of the Giant, Under the Big, Dark Sky and Rot. A graduate of University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, his poems have appeared in such journals as Gulf Coast, Whiskey Island, and XCP. Harvey has collaborated with local writers in performance-art shows at the Art Car Ball and the Menil Collection and made his acting debut in December 2003, in a dos chicas theater commune production of Immaculate Contraception/Sadomasochistic Christmas. He also played Inspector Viper in Mildred’s Umbrella’s Tomorrow Morning, and Jonathan Harker in Mac Wellman’s Dracula. He is Director of the Center for Creative Work at The University of Houston Honors College.

Karen Schlag

Karen is Artistic Director for the Mildred’s Umbrella Children’s Outreach Program and has performed for the company in shows such as Cuckoos (Beatrice), Last Easter (June), Murder of Crows (Nella), Notions of Right and Wrong (Annabelle, Mother), Rot (puppeteer/ shadow), Dark Matter (Mary Jones) and Mac Wellman’s Dracula (Vampirette). Some of Karen’s other theatre work includes Sylvia (Kate) and It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play (Lana Sherwood) for Texas Repertory Theatre, Romeo and Juliet (Nurse) Phoenix INC Theatre Company, The Tamarie Cooper Show (ensemble) with Catastrophic Theatre, Twelfth Night (Viola) with the Shakespeare-By-The-Book Festival, A Doll’s House (Nora) and Eleemosynary (Echo) at Company Onstage and Loplop Presents Loplop (Frida) performed at Obsidian Art Space. Karen can also be seen in the Houston films Jacob (Lucky Chucky Productions), The Disappointed Sniper (Privitera Productions), Brushing Death (City Cyclone Entertainment, LLC) and Bitters and Other Natural Remedies (Cinema Overdrive). Some of Karen’s directing credits include Lady and the Tyger for Mildred’s Museum of the Dysfunction (2010), Charlotte’s Web and Aladdin, both at Company Onstage and The Three Lives of Marion with Wordsmyth Theater. Karen is a Communications lecturer at the University of Houston-Downtown, a member of the Houston-area Actor’s Gym and a founding member for Wordsmyth Theater.

Christie Guidry Stryk

Christie is an Associate Artistic Director for Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company. She holds a BA in Theatre from The University of St. Thomas. Theatre credits include: For Mildred’s Umbrella Theater —Mac Wellman’s Dracula (Mina), By the Bog of Cats (Caroline Cassidy), 365 Days/365 Plays, Dark Matter (Andromeda); Shakespeare-By-the-Book Festival—A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), King Henry V (Princess Katherine), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page), Macbeth (Lady Macduff); Playhouse 90—Nunsense II (Sr. Leo); dos chicas theatre commune ...for those who live in cities (Lover); University of St. Thomas- Jungalbook (Sherakhan), Dancing at Lughnasa (Christina), Ruthless! The Musical (Louise Lerman), Diana of Dobsons (Miss Jay), Picnic (Madge Owens); Annex Theatre Private Eyes (Cory), Defying Gravity (Elizabeth), All In the Timing (Betty). Film credits: Y-guy Productions Timmy the Greeting Card Guy (Crystal); Toxic Monkey Productions Dead of Knight

Commercial Credits: Wal-Mart, Spokeswoman for Matrix Worldwide. Christie has also done scenic painting for Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre, Unhinged Productions, Annex Theatre, The University of St. Thomas, Playhouse 90, and Ft. Bend Theatre.

Wayne Barnhill

Wayne was the technical director for Infernal Bridegroom Productions and is now a company member of Castastrophic Theatre. Set design and acting roles for IBP include: The Danube, A Soap Opera, The Noblest of Drugs, Full Circle, Meat/Bar, Rhinocerous, The Hotel Play, Trappakeepa & Girth, Me-sci-ah 1&2, Baal, Medea and Speeding Motorcycle. For Brazosport Little Players: 32 Short Stories About Brazosport, and various other creative escapades. Wayne was most recently seen on stage in Mildred’s Umbrella’s A Long History of Neglect and Dark Matter, and has also designed and constructed sets for Mildred’s, including By the Bog of Cats, [sic], Triptych, A Long History of Neglect, One Flea Spare, A Murder of Crows and Rot. For Catastrophic Theatre: Spirits to Enforce (acting);The Strangerer, The Tamarie Cooper Show; The Splasher.

Amy Warren

Amy Warren has been acting in the Houston/Galveston for most of her life and holds a Masters degree in Theatre from the University of Houston. She first appeared with Mildred’s Umbrella in Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays. Since then she has appeared as Desdemona in Dark Matter, Georgia in Murder of Crows, Barbara in Night of the Giant, Margaret in The Marriage of Bette and Boo and The Queen of Swords in Notions of Right and Wrong. Amy has also appeared in Museum of Dysfunctions II – IV and helped represent MU in three fringe festivals appearing in the short plays Smoke, Haunt of Flies and Pass This On. Favorite roles outside of MU include Cass in Wonder of the World, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Sylvia in Sylvia.

Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey is Artistic Director of the Fan Factory, he directed the FF productions of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts & runs the August In August Strindberg Festival. Jon is also a Mildred’s Umbrella company member and has appeared in Margo Veil, Under The Big Dark Sky and MU’s Children’s Theatre program. Prior to founding The Fan Factory Theatre Company, Jon worked professionally with sound for several performing arts organizations in Houston, including Da Camera, Ensemble Theatre, and the Alley Theatre. In 1996, Jon was a member of the Alley Theatre’s staff when the theatre received the Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

Kevin Taylor

Kevin Taylor is an artist from upstate NY who works in sculpture, music, lighting and set design and puppetry. He has worked with Basil Twist in Symphonie Fantastique, Petrushka, Red Beads, and Dogugaeshi and O.D.C. Theatre, in Robert Hites' Recent Work, Jenny Roger and Clove Galiee's Trick Saddle (among others) , Superior Concepts Monsters, the Village Halloween Parade, and Mabou Mines Ecco Porco and Animal Magnetism. He is a founding member of the Blue Print Collective. Locally, he has worked for Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre, Houston Grand Opera (Hansel and Gretel) and was the light designer for Rot, (Bobbindoctrin/Mildred s Umbrella), Dark Matter and One Flea Spare with Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company.

Craig Trauschke

Craig has worked in theatres all over Houston as a Stage Manager, running crew, light operator, sound operator and spotlight operator. Venues include University of Houston, Masquerade Theatre and Zilkah Hall at the Hobby Center. He has work with Mildred’s Umbrella since 2009 in productions such as The Third Side, Last Easter, Margo Veil, and Museum of Dysfunction II and III.

Lyndsay Sweeney

Lyndsay has had the privilege to perform with many companies including: Mildred’s Umbrella: Notions of Right and Wrong (Queen of Pentacles), Museum of Dysfunction IV, The Flu Season (Nurse), Margo Veil, Museum of Dysfunction III; Alley Theatre: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion; Texas Repertory Theatre: Our Town (Mrs. Gibbs), Always, Patsy Cline (Louise), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Mrs. Meers), You Can’t Take It With You, Lend Me a Tenor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Crimes of the Heart (Lenny); Main Street Theatre: Translations (Bridgett), Mr. Pim Passes By; Unity Theatre: Enchanted April (Costanza); Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble: The Winter’s Tale (Hermione), Pericles (Marina), Coriolanus, The Texas Shakespeare Festival & Theatre Collide. She holds a BA from Baylor University in Theatre Performance (yes, they have Theatre at Baylor and it’s pretty awesome!) Lyndsay earned her MFA in Australia while being a company member with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. Her solo show, Shakespeare’s Women: Gnawing at My Soul, had its US premiere, produced by Theatre Collide, at Main Street in August 2006. She also performed her show as a Guest Artist for TETA in January 2007. Lyndsay is the Theatre Teacher for Project GRAD Houston, a non-profit company that works to keep students in school and get encourage them to graduate and go to college to fulfill their dreams! She is also a private acting coach and has taught for Main Street Theatre and the Alley.