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Bree Welch

Bree made her Mildred’s Umbrella debut as Morse in One Flea Spare. Bree has performed previously with the Houston Shakespeare Festival in The Tempest (Miranda), Hamlet (Ophelia), Love’s Labors Lost (Rosaline), As You Like It (Pheobe), Taming of the Shrew (Bianca), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia) Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet) and Measure for Measure (Lady of Verona). She has also appeared in Unity Theatre's Enchanted April, The Odd Couple, and The Heiress; The Children's Theatre Festival's Snow White, and The Wolf and the Foolish Little Kids. Bree is a graduate of the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance, and is currently the Events Manager at the Alley Theatre.

David Anderson

David is an original member of Mildred’s Umbrella, and has performed in several plays in the last few years. Outside credits include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare- Abridged, and Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound. For Mildred’s Umbrella: Andy in Kama Sutra,the Tumbler in Eros: A Circus, Quincey in Mac Wellman’s Dracula, the Student in Needful Creatures, and the ghost of Joseph Swane in By the Bog of Cats. For dos chicas theater commune; ... for those who live in cities, Stream of Consciousness: The Verge of Insanity, A Wandering Troupe’s KBBJ,and a recent Kid Ornery production of The Adding Machine.

Shondra Marie

Shondra has worked with many theatres around Houston. Most recently, she appeared at Main Street Theater in the World Premiere of P’s & Q’s: the ABCsof Manners. Other theatres include: Unity Theatre: A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Gift of The Magi; Theater Lab: Nursery School Musical; Texas Repertory Theatre: Smoke on the Mountain: Town Center Theatre: Quilters; Main Street Theatre: The Secret Garden, Morning Star; Mildred’s Umbrella: By the Bog of Cats, Kama Sutra; A.D. Players: The Glass Menagerie, Godspell; Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre Lab: Company; Children's Theatre Festival: The Land of Broken Toys, The New Adventures of Pinocchio; Main Street Youth Theater: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. She has worked with the Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Arts with an Impact, Thunderbird Theater, Stage Left Productions, InterActive Theatre, Theatre Collide, Strand Theatre, Cy Fair College and Actors Theatre of Houston, and has also worked on films, commercials, voice-overs, anime, audiobooks and original cast albums.

Carole Kelly

Carole has worked in some capacity on every Mildred’s Umbrella show to date, usually as stage manager or production manager but also in other capacities. For Mildred's Umbrella as stage manager: Eros: A Circus, Things Being at the Worst, Tomorrow Morning, MAc Wellman's Dracula, Needful Creatures, By the Bog of Cats, [sic], Triptych, A Long History of Neglect and One Flea Spare. For Mildred’s as director- Smoke; as assistant director- Rot; as production manager- Rot, One Flea Spare and A Murder of Crows. She has acted in 365 Days/365 Plays (Mildred's), and Museum of Dysfunction: Family Album (Mildred's Umbrella). Outside credits include: Stream of Consciousness: The Verge of Insanity as an actor (dos chicas theatre commune) and Times Square Angel as assistant director/stage manager (Country Playhouse).

Kelly Robertson

Kelly recently moved back to the Houston area. Her debut show with Mildred’s Umbrella was costume design for One Flea Spare. Kelly worked has designed for several local theatres in the past, including The Strand Theatre (Galveston the Musical, scenery), the University of Houston Central and Downtown campuses (Speed-the-Plow, scenery; Our Town, scenery), Brazosport College (numerous shows), Applause Theatre Company (Oliver!, scenery) and the short-lived Shaw Festival (Misalliance, scenery). She received her BA in Theatre from the University of Houston and her MFA in Design from the University of Georgia (thesis: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, scenery and costumes). While in Georgia, Kelly worked with acclaimed Indian playwright Satish Alekar on the American English-language debut of Begum Barve (scenery). She also worked with performance artist Randall Packer on part three of his controversial five-part opera, A Season in Hell [Religion of the Lie] (scenery), produced in the Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery, Athens, GA. Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Drama and Technical Director at UHD.

Mike Switzer

Mike Switzer has worked with Mildred's Umbrella, Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre, Infernal Bridegroom Productions, Slump, The Brazosport Lazer Panthers, and is a company member of The Catastrophic Theatre. He also produces and directs for Ornery Theatre.

Eric Doss

Eric First started working with Mildreds Umbrella in 2004 and quickly grew attached to the company..the rest is history. He was a company member when he lived in Houston, and worked with Mildreds Umbrella: One Flea Spare-Kabe, ROT-Earl, A Long History of Neglect- Andy, Sic-Theo, By the Bog of Cats-Carthage, Mac Wellman’s Dracula -Dr. Seward, Tomorrow Morning-Max, as Director/Designer: Needful Creatures (Eros: A Circus), Hotel Pasiphae (sound/video) Dark Matter (sound/video); Houston Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Much Ado, Hamlet, As you like It, Romeo and Juliet , Loves Labors Lost, Julius Ceaser and Cymbaline. Theatre Lab: Diva; Bobbindoctrin Puppet theatre: Crime of the Assistant Master Butler, DaDa:Medea, Fan Factory: Patient A and Squeeze Plays, Unity Theatre: A Christmas Schooner; Houston's Ensemble Theatre, Stages-Early Stages, Interactive Theatre and with Basil Twist for the Houston Grand Opera. He worked in New Mexico with Shakespeare in Santa Fe, Santa Fe Performing Arts Company, Teatro Hispanidad de Santa Fe, and the Southwest Theater Company. In NYC- York Theatre Company. He is a graduate of an intensive arts curriculum; the College of Santa Fe , New Mexico where he studied theatre and multimedia . He also dabbles in film production and web design. (dfxden.com). He currently resides and works in New York City.

Patricia Duran

Patricia Duran was a company member of Mildred’s Umbrella Theater and was last seen with us as Lucy in Dark Matter: Lucy and the Mystery of the Vine Encrusted Mansion and Joan in Joan of Arc in Autumn. Other MU credits include Rot (Barbara), Triptych (Clarissa), By the Bog of Cats (Catwoman/ Sound Design), Hotel Pasiphae (Director/Co-Sound Design), Needful Creatures (Elissa), & Mac Wellman’s Dracula (Lucy/Choreographer). Duran has performed at the Alley Theatre in Our Lady of 121st (Norca) and A Christmas Carol (Mrs.Cratchit/ Mrs. Fezziwig). She has also worked at Stages Repertory Theatre in two bilingual productions; the Regional Premiere of Eduardo Machado’s The Cook (Adria/Lourdes) and Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding (The Bride). Duran has performed with Unhinged Productions in Boston Marriage (Claire) and the bobbindoctrin puppet theatre collaboration of The Long Christmas Ride Home (Rebecca). She has worked locally with dos chicas theatre commune and Encore Theatre among others. Her stage credits at the Greer Garson Theatre Center in New Mexico include such varied productions as Goodnight Desdemona/ Goodmorning Juliet, Marisol, The House of Blue Leaves, and As You Like It. She has also done voiceover work for ADV films. Duran received a B.A. in theatre with a minor in dance from the College of Santa Fe, NM. She now works and lives in New York City.

Michelle Edwards

Michelle was a company member and co-Artistic director for Mildred’s Umbrella until 2006. She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Houston, and has also attended programs at Boston University, Carnegie Mellon and RADA. She was an active member of Houston’s theatre community as an actor, director and teaching artist working with theatres such as The Alley, Infernal Bridegroom, Stages, Theatre Lab, Atomic Café, Little Room Down Stairs, and Diverse Works as well as a teaching artist for The Alley Theatre’s E.C.O. Drama Kids program. She has worked overseas an Associate Artistic Director in residence for Theatre Songe to produce new works in Sydney, Australia. Credits include: Mildred’s Umbrella: Acting: Triptych (Pauline), By the Bog of Cats (Hester Swane), Hotel Pasiphae (Pasiphae), and Things Being at the Worst (Duchess). Directing: [sic], Needful Creatures: Kama Sutra. Producer: Tomorrow Morning. Alley Theatre: Our Lady of 121st Street (Sonia), HYPE; Theatre de la Jeune Lune: The Miser (Ensemble); Unhinged Productions: Acting: Laura’s Bush (Dody), Directing: Boston Marriage; IBP: Roberto Zucco (Mother/Madame), Marie and Bruce, Camino Real; Atomic Cafe: La Turista (Salem), The Water Engine, Silent Night, Deadly Night, among others. Other acting credits include: Kingdom of Earth (Myrtle), Frankenstein in Love (Veronique), One for the Road (Gila). She left Houston to pursue her MFA in Acting at the University of Montana in fall 2006.

Alan Hall

Alan is a Houston Theater Veteran. He has done everything... The Houston Shakespeare Festival, alternative theater companies like dos chicas theater commune, Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theater, Texas Renaissance Festival, and more mainstream theaters (the Country Playhouse, Main Street Theater) as well. He earned his acting degree from Northwestern University in Illinois, and has been extensively trained in stage combat and fencing.He is also a musician and a comedian, and willing to do improv or make at fool out of himself at the slightest provocation. Some of his shows include A Long Christmas Ride Home;Bonjour la Bonjour, for those who live in cities, I Hate Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Largo Desolato, The Crime of the Assistant Master Butler, Titus Andronicus, Father Ted, Oedipus Rex, The Days and Knights of King Arthur, The Firebird, Alicia in Wonder Tierra, and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. He also played the Cardinal in Mildred’s Umbrella’s Things Being at the Worst, Frank in [sic], and Van Helsing in Mac Wellman’s Dracula, Raymond in A Murder of Crows and he directed A Long History of Neglect. He has also performed at the Axiom in Infernal Bridegroom’s Rhinoceros, Full Circle and Tamalalia 9 and 10.