CLASSICAL THEATRE - Key Persons
Stage Management credits include: Classical Theatre Company: Ubu Roi; Miss Julie; A Christmas Carol, The Tempest; Uncle Vanya; The Triumph of Love; Candida; Ghosts; Tartuffe; One-Man Hamlet. Main Street Theater: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris; University of Houston: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; What the Butler Saw; I Hate Hamlet. As Assistant Stage Manager: Classical Theatre Company/Prague Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It; King Lear; Stages Repertory Theatre: Panto Sleeping Beauty; University of Houston/Alley Theatre: All My Sons. Andrea worked as the Production Stage Manager for the University of Houston Children's Theatre Festival for three seasons and as Assistant Stage Manager for one season. Shows at CTF include: Pinocchio; The Ugly Duckling; The Little Mermaid; The Princess and the Pea; Magic Theatre; as well as four new musicals written by Jerry Bock and Dr. Sidney Berger.
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- Member of the Administration Team
- Operations Manager & Artistic Company Member
As an actor with CTC he has appeared as Dr. Watson in The Return of Sherlock Holmes and The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, as well as The Ghost Sonata, Henry V, A Doll's House, and An Enemy of the People. His previous theatre credits include: You Can't Take it With You (G-man) and A Christmas Carol (Fred/Scrooge at 21) at the Alley; Cymbeline (Posthumous), Julius Caesar (Octavius), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) at the Houston Shakespeare Festival; as well as the world premiere of Abby Koenig's Spaghetti Code (Phil) for Horse Head Theatre. Andrew also performs regularly at the Houston Grand Opera, having appeared in Il Trovatore, Showboat (Pete),and Ariadne auf Naxos. He is also a voice actor for Sentai Filmworks and Funimation Studios, where he has voiced more than 100 characters since 2005. Andrew won Behind The Voice Actor's 2013 Best Male Voice Actor of the Year in Anime. Film credits include: Starship Troopers: Invasion and Critical Mass.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Artistic Team
- Artistic Company Member
Brittny Bush is thrilled to be a member of Classical Theatre Company. Her past CTC productions include: The Government Inspector, The Barber of Seville, and A Christmas Carol 2014 & 2015. Brittny has also performed with A.D. Players: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe; Cone Man Running Productions: Five Minute Mile 2016; Boiling Point Players: Improv Play x 3; Main Street Theater (partial listing): Harriet the Spy, Love and Information, Junie B. Jones The Musical, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Stargirl, Close Up Space, My Wonderful Day; Mildred's Umbrella: Museum of Dysfunction 2016 and 2017, Large Animal Games; InterACTive Theater (partial listing): Harriet Tubman, and Jack and the Beanstalk; and BooTown: The Farmer and the Badger, GUST. Brittny is currently a theater teacher with The Hope Stone Project has also worked with Main Street Theater Summer Camp for the past ten years. She is a native Houstonian with a BA in Theater Acting and Directing from the University of Houston.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Administrative Associate
- Member of the Administration Team
Eva has been active in the Houston theatre scene for several years in a variety of capacities. She is currently a freelance teaching artist, working as the Youth Theatre Director at the ER Jewish Community Center, a satellite teacher with Main Street Theater, and an instructor at Page Parkes Center of Modeling and Acting. Previously, she served as the Artistic Coordinator at HITS Theatre, where she taught, choreographed, and directed productions for kids in grades 1-12. Other arts administration credits include work with the annual Houston Shakespeare Festival (four seasons), Arts With an Impact, and Nova Arts Project. Eva received her BA in Theatre from the University of Houston. Eva has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 2005, and has worked as a stage manager for over 45 local productions at theatres including: Stages Repertory Theatre, Main Street Theater, HITS Theatre, The Children's Theatre Festival, Talento Bilingue de Houston, Miller Outdoor Theatre, and the University of Houston.
Ivar Siem - Chairman, President
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Artistic Director
- Executive
- Member of the Artistic Team
- Member of the Board of Directors
J.J. is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre Company. For CTC, he has directed Reading Series productions of Benedictus, Love's Last Shift, Second Shepherd's Play, and Prometheus Bound in addition to Mainstage productions of An Enemy of the People, The Bear & The Proposal, A Doll's House, The Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Tartuffe, Shylock, the Jew of Venice, Antigone, One-Man Hamlet, Ghosts, The Tempest, and The Merchant of Venice. He made his CTC acting debut as Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest, and most recently could be seen as Sherlock in The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. Raised in Texas, he came home to Houston after spending a number of years between Boston, Washington D.C., and New York City. Throughout his professional career he has been active in the theatre community locally, nationally, and internationally as an actor, director, and educator. He has appeared in numerous productions around the Houston area with Stages Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Unity Theatre, Unhinged Productions, Theatre Under the Stars, the Children's Theatre Festival, and the Great Caruso as well as the International Festival Institute at Round Top, and the Houston Shakespeare Festival. He has also worked in a number of theatres in Washington D.C., Boston, and elsewhere including the Bill W. and Dr. Bob Project, Theater J, the Greenbelt Arts Center, the Source Theatre Festival, and the Keegan Theatre. He has directed around the country at such theaters and universities as the Goddard Players, Creative Arts, Boston College, the Magic Circle Theater, and Tufts University. He has also directed and acted internationally at the National Theatre of Ireland through the Abbey Theatre Program. He was recognized as one of the Top 100 Creatives in Houston by the Houston Press in 2012. In 2016, he helped guide Classical Theatre Company to win the prestigious National Theatre Company Grant Award from the American Theatre Wing. As an educator, he was a professor of drama at the University of Houston - Downtown, and has taught at all levels of education including Medford High School, Tufts University, Boston College, YES Prep Academy, San Jacinto College, and in Washington D.C. at the Catholic University of America. In addition to training at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, he holds a BA in Theater Arts from Boston College, and an MFA in Drama from the Catholic University of America.
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- Artistic Company Member
- CTC Resident Artist
As a CTC resident artist, Julia has performed as Euelpides in The Birds, and Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. As a director at CTC she has worked on productions of Lysistrata, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Henry V, Miss Julie; The Triumph of Love; and Other directing credits include: All Girls (Stark Naked Theatre Co.); Almost Maine; Greater Tuna; Angel Street; The Importance of Being Earnest; Enchanted April; Cyrano (Unity Theatre); The Lion in Winter; Art; Wit; The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (Texas Repertory Theatre Company); The Art of Conversation (Musiqa); Good (staged reading at The Landing Theatre Company); O Mistress Mine (staged reading at Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Mauritius; The Bug; Private Eyes (Rice University); and The Nerd; Beyond Therapy (University of Houston). Assistant directing credits include: Bach at Leipzig; Cyrano; A Christmas Carol; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?; Yes, No, Maybe So (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Hamlet (Houston Shakespeare Festival). She created and directed the Alley Theatre Young Performers Studio for several seasons, and developed an IB early childhood creative drama program for Aldine ISD. Julia is a guest lecturer and visiting director for Rice University's Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts and a member of the performing arts faculty at St. Francis Episcopal Day School. She earned an MFA in theatre from the University of Houston.
Kalob Martinez is an actor who combined his professional interests in stage combat and voice acting and discovered puppetry. His solo show, "El Beto", (a one-man hand puppet adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) stands as the culmination of his theatrical endeavors in puppet arts. In 2019 he was awarded a Jim Henson Foundation grant. He is currently an associate artist and ensemble member of Sandglass Theater's, "Babylon: Journeys of Refugees", and plays the Hippo in Sandglass' virtual production for young audiences of "Rock the Boat". He voiced and served as the puppeteer for Arthur Fiedler twice with the Boston Pops as narrator for "Peter and the Wolf" and "A Visit from St. Nick". He is currently a Company Artist for the Classical Theatre Company (CTC) in Houston,TX, and for five seasons (2008-2013) he was an Associate Artist. In 2020 his work for CTC's "Peer Gynt" was awarded Best Use of Puppetry by the Houston Press Theatre Awards. He has performed as the mascot, Buster Brackets and Fantasy Frank, for the "Tournament Marathon Challenge" (2017-2019) and the "Fantasy Football Marathon" (2018) both on ESPN. He also assisted in the puppet build for "The Fantasy Show" hosted by fantasy football analyst, Matt Berry, on ESPN Plus. Martinez is also a seasoned voice over actor for the English dubs of Anime, the most popular titles include, "No 6", "The Place Promised in Our Early Days", "Halo Legends", "Parasyte: The Maxim", and "Starship Troopers: Invasion". BA Acting, University of Houston. MFA Puppet Arts, University of Connecticut. Advanced Actor/Combatant, Society of American Fight Directors.
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- Vice President of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Artistic Team
- Artistic Company Member
Lindsay has most recently appeared in most recently appeared in Lysistrata, The Fair Maid of the West, and The Government Inspector as well as The Ghost Sonata, The Bear and The Proposal, Bird #2 in The Birds, Nym/Cambridge/Williams in Henry V, Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard, and Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest. Previous credits include: Alice Sycamore in You Can't Take It With You at A.D. Players; Madame in The Maids and Mary in Late: A Cowboy Song with Mildred's Umbrella; Grace in Tigers Be Still, Jo in Boom, and Heather in Assistance with Black Lab Theatre; Tatiana Bakunin in The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Tata Herzen in The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, Tiffany in My Wonderful Day, Cat in The Cat in the Hat, Meg Murray in A Wrinkle in Time, Ms. Frizzle in The Magic Schoolbus Live!, and Mom/etc in Superfudge with Main Street Theater; Anna in The Rainbow Lands with 14 Pews; Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and Goldilocks in Goldilocks & the Three Little Plays with InterActive Theater; Annelle in Steel Magnolias with Sugar Land Imperial Theater. Education: Baylor University, BFA Theater Performance.
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- Member of the Artistic Team
- Artistic Company Member
Matthew Keenan
Artistic Company Member
Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Matthew has previously appeared at CTC as Osip in The Government Inspector, The Student in The Ghost Sonata, Peter in The Cherry Orchard, Algernon in The Importance Of Being Earnest, Hamlet in Hamlet, Nazi Officer in The Merchant Of Venice, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Osvald in Ghosts, Haimon in Antigone and also co-adapted A Christmas Carol. He is a graduate from the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin and is a proud company member of both the Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C. and CTC here in Houston. Previous acting credits include, The Lonesome West (Coleman), Picasso At The Lapin Agile (Picasso), The Woman In Black (Kipps), Dancing At Lughnasa (Gerry), Gdirl From Gdansk (Rich), The Rapture Index (Mark), Love Peace And Robbery (Darren), Stones In His Pockets (Jake), Translations (Doalty), The Shawl (Charles), The Departure Lounge (Frank), Don Carlos (Gabriel De La Cueva/Prince of Parma), A Christmas Carol (Dick Wilkins), Fusion (Jayo), Blue (Des), Romeo And Juliet (Romeo), Big Love (Oed), The B.F.G. (Danny/ Bonecruncher), Massacre @ Paris (Various), and What The Dead Want (Bobby). Film and television credits include On Our Way, Henry And Sunny, The Tudors, The Clinic, The Big Bow Wow, Camera Cafe, Bachelors Walk, and Bouncing Boy. Matthew made his directorial debut in 2011 at Keegan Theatre with Peter Coy's A Shadow Of Honor and most recently made his playwriting debut, also at Keegan Theatre, with An Irish Carol.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Artistic Team
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For CTC Philip has directed The Government Inspector, The Birds, Doctor Faustus, A Christmas Carol, and adapted and directed Ubu Roi. Other directing credits include his commedia dell'arte-inspired reimagining of The Duchess of Malfi and the world premiere of The Murder of Gonzago for the Prague Shakespeare Company, as well as the original collaborations Cut Down and IMA ZO!!! for BooTown, Margo Veil for Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company and his adaptation of Henry VI, Part 3 for Nova Arts Project's War of the Roses As an actor he has appeared in CTC's productions of The Barber of Seville, The Triumph of Love, Candida, and Tartuffe, as well as their co-productions with the Prague Shakespeare Company: As You Like It and King Lear. With other companies he has been seen in Julius Caesar, The Murder of Gonzago, The Duchess of Malfi, Macbeth, Cymbeline, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Prague Shakespeare Company); Henry V, Richard III (Prague Shakespeare Company/Main Street Theater); Love Goes to Press, Life Is a Dream, Dog Act, and the Coast of Utopia trilogy (Main Street Theater); The Barber of Seville (Houston Grand Opera); This Is Our Youth (Mosaic Theatre Company); Among the Thugs (Horse Head Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, Twelfth Night, and Cymbeline (Houston Shakespeare Festival). Philip is a graduate of the University of Houston School of Theatre and Dance and has studied commedia dell'arte with Antonio Fava at the Scuola Internazionale dell'Attore Comico.
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- Member of the Artistic Team
- Artistic Company Member
With CTC: directed The Fair Maid of the West and appeared in The Merchant of Venice, Ghosts, Uncle Vanya, The Tempest. Philip is the Co-Executive Director of Stark Naked Theatre Company. With Stark Naked he has appeared in Macbeth, Debt Collectors(which he also co-directed) and Dinner With Friends, and directed Body Awareness. Last season, he appeared at the Alley Theatre in Clybourne Park, and Christmas Carol. Broadway: Blood Brothers, The Kentucky Cycle. Off-Broadway: Hundreds of Hats. National Tour: Titanic, the Musical. Since arriving in Texas in 2001: Stages: Oh, the Humanity, Yankee Tavern, I Am My Own Wife, Mr. Marmalade, Lady,Souvenir, Amy's View, The Pavilion, Dirty Blonde. Over thirty productions at the Alley including: The Pillowman, The Farnsworth Invention, Eurydice,The Crucible, The Exonerated, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Mousetrap, Hamlet and The Invention of Love. Main Street Theatre: Houston Shakespeare Festival: King John, Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline. TUTS: Wonderful Life, Sound of Music, and one memorable performance of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Generations: Bat Boy, Spring Awakening, Our Town. BCCM: On the Town, Fiorello, Assassins, She Loves Me. EHS: The Tempest. Regional: St. Louis Repertory, Cleveland Play House, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The New Harmony Theatre and Weston Playhouse. Film and TV:Tripwire, The Nanny, Martial Law and Hollywood Off-Ramp. Education: The Juilliard School, Drake University, NTI, Moscow Arts Theatre School. As a director: Almost Main, Reckless (Brave Dog Theatre), Ferdinand the Bull (Stages), On the Town (co-director, BCCM) Art (Generations) Teaching: Philip teaches several ongoing acting classes as well as private sessions. For more information,please visit kimtobinactingstudio.com. Lehl is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Secretary of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Administration Team
- Internship Coordinator & Artistic Company Member
For CTC, Tom has directed The Importance of Being Earnest . As an actor at CTC he has appeared as Dr. Stockman in An Enemy of the People, Gloucester in King Lear, Touchstone in As You Like It, the title role in Tartuffe, Morell in Candida, Prisoner #A6202 in Shylock: the Jew of Venice, Teiresias in Antigone, Narrator/Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, and Hermocrate in Triumph of Love. Houston Shakespeare Festival: Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antonio in Twelfth Night, Cleon in Pericles, Pisanio in Cymbeline, Cicero/Conspirator in Julius Caesar, Costard in Love's Labor's Lost, Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Jaques in As You Like It and The Ghost in Hamlet. Stages Repertory Theatre: Panto Cinderella, Five Course Love, Searching for Eden, Spitfire Grill, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Convenience, Syncopation, Romance, Romance, Elizabeth Rex, Company and The Memory of Water. UH/Alley Theatre: All My Sons. Main Street Theater: Copenhagen, The Three-Cornered Hat. A.D. Players: The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sanders Family Christmas. The Barnstormers Theatre (Tamworth, NH): The Seagull, The Three Sisters, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Playboy of the Western World, Death of a Salesman, Lend Me a Tenor, I Do! I Do!. Film and Television: Warning: Parental Advisory, Law and Order. Education: MFA, University of Houston; BFA, Carnegie-Mellon University. Thomas is proud to have worked/studied with the following: Sir Peter Hall, Stuart Ostrow, Bobby Lewis, Elizabeth Orion, Mel Shapiro, and Sidney Berger. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre at Sam Houston State University and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.