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DAVID SERERO  (Otto Frank/Director/Producer) David Serero, has received international recognition and critical acclaim from all over the world. At 38 years old, he has already performed more than 2,000 concerts and performances throughout the world, played in over 100 films and recorded 20 albums. He entered the prestigious Who's Who America for demonstrating outstanding achievements in the en...

Joaquina Kalukango received the 2022 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for her performance as Nelly O’Brien in  Paradise Square.  She received a 2020 Tony Award nomination for her performance in the critically acclaimed Broadway production of  Slave Play.  For that production she also received an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress...

CHILINA KENNEDY Chilina is known for playing Carole King in the musical  Beautiful  on Broadway for over 1,200 performances. She also recently originated the Tony-award winning role of Dina on the First Broadway National Tour of  The Band’s Visit . Chilina’s first appearance on Broadway was in 2012 when she played Mary Magdalene in Des McAnuff’s  Jesus Christ Superstar , which also had successful...

SAM CARNER is a New York bookwriter / lyricist. He won the $100,000 Kleban Prize for librettists, the Richard Rodgers Award, and the John Wallowitch Award for songwriters under 40. He and Derek Gregor were among Playbill.com’s 12 “Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know,” and 13 of their songs have been nominated for MAC Awards. Their musical UNLOCK’D played and extended Off-Broad...

Rachel Wagstaff wrote the book for multi-award winning musical,  Flowers for Mrs Harris  (Best Musical, UK Theatre Awards 2016) which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Daniel Evans, in September 2018 after a run at the Sheffield Crucible. Her critically acclaimed adaptation of  Birdsong  opened in the West End, directed by Trevor Nunn, and enjoyed four UK tours with the Origi...

Emmy Award Winner and Mexican star of theatre, music, and television Mauricio Martínez, will perform at 54 Below on October 5th and 6th. In his new show 5’11, Based in NYC, Martínez will sort through songs of what might have been from his musical, “What If”.  The show will be recorded and released as Mauricio's first live album.

Adrian and Aly are founders of Penumbra Theatre Théâtre Pénombre and are producing the musical Be More Chill in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 4-7th, 2023.

Michael Radi COMPOSER / LYRICIST / LIBRETTIST / PERFORMER / VOCAL COACH / MUSICAL DIRECTOR / MUSICAL WRITING EDUCATOR / CONTENT CREATOR / FOUNDER OF MTWC The King's Legacy THE KING’S LEGACY is a celebration of remarkable women in history told through the stories of Anne Boleyn - the second wife of King Henry VIII - and their daughter Queen Elizabeth I. The show portrays how Henry’s obsession f...

Mark Brown Hi, I’m Mark Brown and I’m a playwright. For more than 20 years I was an actor but I made a mid-career switch to writing. My mom always said I should have something to fall back on. For the longest time I thought she meant a mattress. The acting worked out okay. I did a lot of theatre, TV and film. I was blessed to work with some really great actors, from George Clooney to Philip Nolen....

Mark Cabaniss is a music publisher, writer, producer, broadcaster, and speaker. He is President/CEO of Jubilate Music Group, a worldwide music publisher creating printed and digital music, recordings, and videos. As an ASCAP composer and arranger, Mark’s published compositions have been performed nationally and abroad, and include choral anthems, musicals, cantatas, and instrumental pieces. His co...

Aaron Netsky My areas of expertise are writing and performing. They're what I studied, they're what I practiced, and they have many applications outside of the obvious. For one, when I speak or write, people know what I'm trying to say, they may even be convinced, and, importantly, they find it interesting. In addition to being an excellent communicator myself, I can help clear up the...

Sam is one of the first musicians in the world to have a Conservatoire Level Masters Course specially created for him, a ‘Piano Masters in Interpretation and Improvisation’ at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, bringing together his skills in jazz, composition and classical. Graduating with Distinction in 2019, he spent the following year as a Fellow with the Composition Department. He...

Steven Greenwood is a Montreal-based writer & director, and the Artistic Director of Home Theatre Productions. He holds a PhD from McGill University with a focus on queer cultural history, and he teaches university courses in film, theatre, and popular culture. His work is influenced by his passion for queer history & culture, and he is a fan of all things geeky, pulpy, campy & queer. 

Erin Murray Quinlan is a published  Playwright, Poet, And Composer with credits Off-Broadway and beyond.    Quinlan's latest show,  Brain Hemingway , had its premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe venue Greenside @ Infirmary Street in August '22 and will be returning to the festival in 2023 to Greenside @ Nicholson Square.   God Save Queen Pam  had its Off-Broadway debut in the summer of 20...

Alexander S. Bermange is a composer and lyricist whose musicals and theatre productions have enjoyed successful runs in the West End, across the UK and around the world, whose comic writing has acquired a formidable following amongst millions of radio listeners, and whose songs have been performed, recorded and released by international stars including Cynthia Erivo, Kerry Ellis, Miriam Margolyes,...

Jaime Lozano is a musical theatre composer who has been heralded as the “next big thing” on Broadway by Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda. A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Jaime earned his BFA in Music and Composition from the School of Music at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and was the recipient of a full scholarship to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he has the distincti...

Described by The Observer as ‘a highly individual singer-songwriter’, Maz O’Connor is a truly unique artist. Known for her haunting, emotive vocals and her poetic lyricism, her songs are most often short stories inspired by her love of literature, folklore and mythology. Her Irish roots, she suspects, inform her love of darker tales—those of heartbreak, longing and loss. She wrote her first song a...

MINDI DICKSTEIN is an award-winning writer of plays and musicals best known as the lyricist for Broadway's LITTLE WOMEN (licensed by MTI, Original Broadway Cast album released by Ghostlight/Sh-k-boom Records), which continues to be performed worldwide, including recent premieres in Tokyo and London.  Current projects include book and lyrics for MAIDEN VOYAGE (New Works Provincetown), lyrics fo...

James is a writer, producer, actor, theatremaker, singer, educator and a few other things. He made his Broadway debut as a singer for Riverdance, toured as Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar, and my performance career has spanned Broadway and off, to voiceover, television, and concert halls all over the world. I've also been involved in the development of dozens of new works for the stage as an...

Dear Mom, I'm Gay! The Musical Synopsis- Dan Sarkisian grew up in an evangelical home in a small town in Michigan. He moves to New York City to study fashion design, but quickly finds he has even more to learn about himself. Dan begins to explore his identity and sexuality. He slowly learns to embrace who he truly is, a part of himself that he has always suppressed. Dan falls in love with hims...

Janet McMahan has been working as a professional pianist since the age of sixteen. She has also worked as a writer, performing artist and producer of music, audio books and dramatic works. As a musician and singer, Janet has performed on the Grand Ole Opry, toured the United States and abroad as Roy Orbison's keyboard player and played for hundreds of society gigs, weddings, parties, etc. She...

From original songs and lyrics for both church anthems and stage musicals, to mood and transition cues for theater productions and film scores, Christy Stutzman has a gift for interpreting and expressing deep emotions through music and poetry.  Whatever musical score your creative project needs, Christy will listen carefully, study the project and will craft a musical style and approach that match...

A Woman Is ... a cabaret about family, identity, and becoming who you are. Triple-threat performer, Kiki Moritsugu, holds forth on her relationship with her larger-than-life mother. Sharing three generations of backstage stories from summer stock, Broadway, and shopping malls in Canada, Kiki reveals how one multi-racial woman defines herself in a world dominated by stereotypes.

Jim is not only a writer of Canadian Musical Theatre, but a teacher and advocate as well. His advanced age gave him an opportunity to study The Craft Of Writing For The Musical Theatre with Broadway Conductor and Composer Lehman Engel, whose tradition of teaching young musical theatre writers is still being continued at New York’s BMI Lehman Engel Workshop. After Leman’s passing in 1982, Jim helpe...

Dante Green  (they/he/she) is a Black, Queer, multi-hyphenate born and raised in rural Pennsylvania. They are an alumnus of The Headlong Performance Institute as well as The University of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing, Playwriting, and Production focused on writing and directing for Musical Theatre. Dante is the Founding Artistic Director of the evolving company  The Makers&#3...