Francis ERIC Montesa is happy to return to MMT as Production Stage Manager for In the Heights, previously with MMT–Driving Miss Daisy and Greater Tuna. Coming out of lockdown, ERIC stage managed Twelfth Night twice for The Acting Company and Shakesperience Production, Inc. ERIC's other credits include Romeo & Juliet & Ain’t Suppose to Die a Natural Death (Tour) for The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Hong Kong for Blueberry Pond Ensemble Theatre, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Rules Of Charity for Theatre By The Blind, Romeo & Juliet for Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival , The Tempest for the Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Falstaff for The Shakespeare Project; Driving Miss Daisy and Charley's Aunt for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Welcome to Our City for Mint Theatre Company; Awake & Sing! w/ Anne Jackson and Dark Laughter for The Actors’ Studio; Murder in Mind at Ubu Rep. and Regionally for the Wayside Theatre (Va.), Source Theatre Co., Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, DC) and the Centenary Stage (Pa.). He has directed scenes from A Raisin in the Sun, A Centennial Celebration of Langston Hughes, and stage managed A Cultural Celebration for Actors Equity.  ERIC has done National Tours of Porgy & Bess, How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying, Singin’ In the Rain, Titanic, and Crazy for You. When New York went on lockdown due to the pandemic in March 2020, he was in the middle of teching his first dance concert, Princess Yaa, produced by The Gloria Eve Performing Arts Foundation. The day after finishing Act I, he got the call that the performances were cancelled. Regardless, he still went to the theatre and finished a paper tech of Act II with the director and lighting designer in the hope of rescheduling the performances in June, which never happened. ERIC has been a member of Actors Equity since 1997.