Administrative Staff

Troy Scheid has been head of Kids On Stage since 2005; but she has been involved with the program since she was a KOS student herself. After graduating from HSPVA's Theatre Department, she attended Rice University , receiving degrees in history and medieval studies. Professionally, she has been involved with productions at Main Street Theater and Main Street Youth Theater, the Back Porch Players, Baker Shakespeare, the Rice Players, and Theatre Southwest, as a director, scenic designer, costume designer and actor. She worked in Community Relations at Stages Repertory Theatre and Civic Art + Design at the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County before taking her current position. The theater group she founded, Collide, has been in existence for nearly 3 years, doing avant-garde performances in “found” spaces such as warehouses and art galleries. Collide's biggest production so far was the world premiere of a Broadway-style musical, Byzantium, at New York's 2005 International Fringe Festival; a recent favorite was a production of the Baroque opera Dido & Aeneas staged with puppets inside a large cabinet (and opera singers outside of it).

Jonathan Gonzalez comes from the San Francisco Bay Area where he served as Education director for the Marin Shakespeare Company, and where he was also an actor and teacher in the company. He was also a Teaching Artist-in Residence at The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Peninsula Youth Theatre In Palo Alto, and Youth-In-Arts in San Rafael. Jonathan has taught theatre in over two dozen schools, directed and acted in more than 150 productions and is a proud member of Actor's Equity. Since arriving in Houston he has worked at Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center where he directed The Three Nasty Gnarlies, Aladdin, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, and Seussical. Other local venues where he has acted, directed, and taught include The Tulane Shakespeare Festival in New Orleans, The Curt Miller Magic and Comedy Show at Moody Gardens, Rice University, Texas A&M and The University of Houston where he received his MFA in directing, and directed Free Man Of Color, True West, As You Like It, and The Importance of Being Earnest. At Main Street Theatre he taught Abracadabra! camps and directed After The Rain King and Scapino!! for KOS.