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Michelle Plevin Started ROOMS101 LTD with Mark Tunstall in 2022, the production house has grown rapidly. Michelle first became involved in production as an associate producer for the film ‘Five Cars’, and then executive producer of ‘unlicensed’, both feature films, written by mark hampton.

Last year, Rooms101 began filming on ‘death cries alone’, written by sean staab. Currently, Rooms101 is also casting for a triple bill horror anthology, with filming starting next year.

In addition to the feature films, Rooms101 Has also become home to singer-songwriter Ben Hughes, who has produced his first album, available now on spotify. We also have several tv, radio and stage projects in the pipeline, but this year has been all about kidults!

This year has been a huge career change for michelle, having spent the last 30 years working as a nurse, specialising in neurodiversity and mental health.

Michelle plevin is the production manager of kidults! the musical.

Mark Tunstall is a published writer, producer , actor and director. Current films:'Unlicensed' as 'Jon' (a boxing trainer)'Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird as 'Ted' (an engineer), with Cillian Murphy, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen and Red Rock Entertainment.'Death Cries Alone' as 'Damien'.Currently directing/appearing in: a horror movie anthology: My 18th Birthday, Rendlesham and St. Melvin's. Currently playing lead in 'Kidults' - (a new musical in the Westend).And is appearing as 'Mark' in new Alan Partridge series 'And Those Feet...' 

KIDULTS! Is a heartwarming comedic and magical reflection on our school days, that we are sure everyone will relate to. Discover the possible stories behind the characters we all remember from school. An insightful and thought provoking look at how our experiences and parenting influenced who we are today.

A show for adults about all of our memories. A nostalgic yet disconcerting reality check, that uses comedy, music, and tall tales to deliver powerful messages.

Small but Mighty Productions was founded in 2015. After nearly a decade of growing and learning, our mandate is this:
To create new Canadian work which provides opportunities both on and offstage for women and maginalized people, using a queer feminist lense. We started out with nothing, just two gals with a dream of interesting work, an important message, and dynamic roles. Over the years we have produced original work as well as material from emerging playwrights all over the world. Our current focus is original Canadian musicals, with a dream to landscape the queer experience by decade through our storytelling. We also run a cabaret series in Paupers Pub, and have a full season of a webseries ready to be shot when funded.
The future goal for the company is to own our own space. A place where we can not only operate the Small But Mighty season, but also rent space to other artists giving them a place to rehearse and perform their material. We also aim to run workshops, coachings, and classes in the space at an affordable, accessible rate for emerging artists in the GTA. This line of work is exhausting and thankless sometimes, so we hope to be a hub for growth and support for our fellow artists.

Artist in Residence/Resident Writer

Artist in Residence/Music Director

Manuele Mizzi is a Jamaican-Italian tenor, Manuele Adrian Mizzi discovered his love for performing at a very young age. Growing up in Markham he attended Unionville High School for the Arts later obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Voice Performance from York University under the tutelage of renowned Canadian operatic soprano Stephanie Bogle and having also studied with renowned European soprano Galina Lumkosky.

With a repertoire ranging from pop to musical theatre to opera and classical, he has performed in a wide variety of venues throughout North America. His musical theatre credits include performing the roles of Schroeder in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Japheth in Two by Two, Thomas in Emmanuel the Musical (New York City), Barnaby in Hello Dolly, Shrek in Shrek Tateh in Ragtime, The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, and Dickon in The Secret Garden among many others.As a soloist, Manuele Adrian Mizzi has performed with The Neapolitan Connection, Vocal Horizons Chamber Choir, Greater Toronto Philharmonic, All the King’s Voice’s and the Burlington Civic Choir among others.Manuele Adrian Mizzi also has a long career of teaching under his belt. As an avid pianist, accompanist, musical director and director, he has been working with all ages from 3-99 for the last 23 years. His directing and musical directing credits include musicals, plays, pantos and recitals.

Doctor Bird Productions is his next foray into the performing world - a place to bring his love of direction, performing and colaboration together. The doctor bird is Jamaica's national bird and his love of his heritage and love for the beauty of the animal world helped him bring this new company to life to soar like the great hummingbird. 

We are committed to the practice of color-conscious casting. We recognize that considerations of race, including how race and ethnicity shape society and the stories we tell, are vital components to the casting process. Also critical to the casting process are audience perceptions of race on stage and in film. 

He is the author of Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams; Barrington Stage Company and Greenwich House Theater Off-Broadway), Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova, NAMT), The Black Suits (Center Theater Group, Barrington Stage Company), ReWrite (Urban Stages, Goodspeed Opera House), Theaterworks USA’s The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We The People. Musicals currently in development include The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (for La Jolla Playhouse), Punk Rock Girl, and Love In Hate Nation.

His music appeared on Season 2 of NBC’s “Smash,” with his song “Broadway, Here I Come!” hailed by The New York Times as a new entry in The Great American Songbook. Albums: Be More Chill (OCR), which has been streamed over 220 million times; Things To Ruin (OCR); Two-Player Game; and The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree all available on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records.

His concert act, Joe Iconis and Family, frequently plays Feinstein’s/54 Below, The Laurie Beechman Theater, Weston Playhouse, and other venues around the country.

Joe is deliriously inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, Martin Scorsese, Sardi’s, The Rolling Stones, whiskey, The Muppets, and The Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with.

Dan Redfeld Composer / Conductor / Orchestrator

Award-winning composer, conductor, orchestrator, pianist and producer Dan Redfeld has had his music and arrangements performed internationally from the concert hall to the musical theatre stage to the recording studio.

Redfeld received his training at Boston’s New England Conservatory before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he graduated with a degree in composition with an emphasis in conducting.

In June 2016, A Hopeful Place – A Song Cycle for Soprano & Chamber Orchestra, was released on Navona Records/ PARMA Recordings. With music by Redfeld and text by John Gabriel Koladziej, A Hopeful Place was written for soprano Kristi Holden and premiered in Los Angeles in 2010. The recording features Holden and the Hollywood Studio Symphony under the baton of the composer.

Christina Harding is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, performer, and choreographer. Ms. Harding is a protégé of the renowned dancer and choreographer Dean Barlow. Shows and credits include Anything Goes, Shrek the Musical, The Who’s Tommy, Chess, and The Billboard Music Awards. Her short film Moustache, a nod to film noir, has screened internationally and won numerous awards. Christina is also working on a new project with cowriter John Koladziej and composer Dan Redfeld.

John Gabriel Koladziej is a New York-based writer. A Hopeful Place marks John’s second collaboration with composer Dan Redfeld after co-writing the lyrics for Jo – The Little Women Musical (with lyricist Christina Harding).  He is currently writing the libretto for Shoot the Moon.  John is also currently working on a new musical piece with Redfeld and Harding, soon to be announced.

John trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City and holds a BFA in Drama and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing, both from New York University.

JOAN ROSS SORKIN is a playwright, musical theatre bookwriter and lyricist, opera librettist, and screenwriter. Her two most current musical projects are Black Swan Blues with Randy Klein, and Bordello with Barbara Bellman and Emiliano Messiez. Black Swan Blues had a staged reading in October, 2022 as part of The York Theatre Company’s Developmental Reading Series, and Bordello is scheduled to have the same in December, 2023.

Joan’s family musicals include Dandelion, with Mary Liz McNamara, with its world premiere at Playhouse on Park, W. Hartford, CT in April, 2023, and the award-winning Isabelle and The Pretty Ugly Spell with Steven Fisher with productions at The Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, Coral Gables, FL (Winner, National Children’s Theatre Award), NYMF (Outstanding New Family Musical), and Vital Theatre; and Go Green! Prince Charming’s Quest for Love and Ecology in NYC with Mary Feinsinger, presented in the very first New York Children’s Theater Festival.

He is the composer of For My People, a song cycle featuring the poetry of American author, Margaret Walker. For My People was featured at the Furious Flower Poetry Festival at James Madison University and the University of Kansas. The music premiere of the renowned poem by Margaret Walker ‘For My People’ was April 2, 2011 at the Forbes Center for the Arts, James Madison University, VA. His compositions, Facing It and Dear John, Dear Coltrane, based on the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Michael Harper premiered at the 2014 Furious Flower Poetry Conference featuring the combined James Madison University and Morgan State Chorales.

His musical, Black Swan Blues, in collaboration with Joan Ross Sorkin, bookwriter and lyricist, inspired by the ballet “Swan Lake,”. Black Swan Blues explores white privilege and racism in America in the South in the early 1960’s. Set in New Orleans, a rich, idealistic journalist and a poor, vulnerable blues singer’s true love is challenged when secrets from their tangled past involving race, murder and the Ku Klux Klan are revealed. Only through the magic of voodoo do they find eternal love. The score is timeless and contemporary evoking the period.

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 distinction of being the first Mexican to be accepted to and earn an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Jaime is one of the five artists selected for the 2020-2022 Joe’s Pub Working Group residency and one of the artists selected as part as The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021. 

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A prolific composer, Jaime’s works have been produced at venues such as the Minskoff Theatre (Broadway), Lucille Lortel Theatre (Off-Broadway), The Pearl Theatre (Off-Broadway), The Players Theatre (Off-Broadway), Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (Off Broadway), Goodspeed Opera House, The Juilliard School of Music, The Triad Theatre, Theatre for the New City

Dan Remmes is an award-winning, published playwright, screenwriter and actor.
He has appeared on stages across the country, as well as in film and television. His scripts have received productions and workshops across Europe and North America (including The White House). They have featured OSCAR-WINNING, TONY-WINNING, EMMY-WINNING and OBIE-WINNING actors.
Dan is best known as the book writer of GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL which recently received its United States premieres at the historic Ogunquit Playhouse featuring Hal Linden and Sally Struthers and at the The La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts featuring Cathy Rigby and Ken Page. Both productions were greeted with rave reviews.
Among ongoing projects, Dan has three feature films in development. He currently writes, directs and stars in the award-winning online web series, COVID COUPLE.

Neil Berg is the composer/co-lyricist, along with Pulitzer Prize/TONY-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, of the award-winning new musical The 12, which just finished a very successful pre-Broadway tryout to critical and audience acclaim at the Goodspeed Opera House, directed by TONY award-winning director John Doyle, produced for Broadway by Cody Lassen & Joe Grano. The 12 previously ran at The Denver Center to unanimous rave reviews and won the 2015 HENRY Award for best new play or musical. Broadway opening anticipated in 2025/2026 season.

Neil is currently in development as the composer of the new Broadway bound musical version of My Cousin Vinny, based on the iconic movie, with book/lyrics by original screenwriter, Dale Launer.

Neil has two new commissioned musicals opening in 2024: The Sabbath Girl which opens May 3rd at Penguin Repertory Theatre (directed by Joe Brancato), then transfers Off-Broadway in July to the Big Theater @ 59 East 59th, and How My Grandparents Met, opening this winter at The NJ Rep Theater, both written with playwright/book writer/co-lyricist Cary Gitter.

Neil is currently the composer of the new musical Charlie Hustle, about controversial baseball icon Pete Rose and the story of his gambling addiction that led to his downfall, with book/lyrics by Ryan Noggle. Charlie Hustle will have its first developmental production in Detroit, Michigan this fall.

Becky is a Scottish theatre director, facilitator and writer. She trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and was a finalist for the prestigious JMK Award in 2019 and 2021.
Her work spans Musical Theatre, Shakespeare, new writing and reworked classics in various forms and capacities. She also works across a variety of educational institutions and engagement departments across Scotland.
Directing credits include: Woman Walking (Sylvian Productions/Perth Theatre); God Catcher (Petrichor Productions); The Steamie (Dundee Rep); Seven Against Edinburgh (Lyceum Theatre); Bloodbank, He Who Opens the Door, Not Now, Absolute Bowlocks, Celestial Body, The Cameo (Play, Pie, Pint/Lemon Tree/Traverse Theatre); Glory on Earth, Little Women - The Musical, Faustus: That Damned Woman, 9 to 5 The Musical, The Pajama Game, Bad Roads, Much Ado About Nothing, Enron, Blue Stockings (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); The Comedy of Errors (Petersfield Shakespeare Company); The Fairy that Fell off the Christmas Tree (She Productions); Bombshells, It's Different for Girls (She Productions/East Riding Theatre); Macbeth (Summer on Stage/Lyceum Theatre); It Never Ends (Traverse Theatre/Cumbernauld Theatre); Buffer, Riot Squat (Thrive Theatre); The Hen Night, Like a Moth to a Flame (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
Becky worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company for two years as an assistant director on Romeo and Juliet and The Hypocrite. At the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh she has been commissioned as a writer, worked as a director and facilitator and was resident Assistant Director for the 2014/15 season.

Janine Robledo – Book/Music/Lyrics is a New York City based creative. Originally from Miami, Florida, she

is a Cuban-American librettist /composer/lyricist, and classically trained pianist. She holds an

M.F.A. from the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts

and a B.A. from Florida Atlantic University where she studied piano performance. A recipient of

the Paulette Goddard Award, Janine is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and Maestra

Music. Her musical comedy "The Curious Contents of Christie's Wastebasket" (composer Aden

Kent Ramsey) has had a reading at NYU, and with Two River Theater in Red Bank. It also

received a workshop with the Berklee Theater Arts Collaborative in Boston and was presented

as part of the 2019 Emerging Artist’s Theater New Works Series at Tada Theater. Janine was

previously a writer in residence for 2 years with Three Act Theater Company which culminated

in two workshop performances of her musical "Chaundria and the Giant" (composer Micha Joel)

at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center.

Ghost in the Machine

In a secluded lab nestled in the Argentinian mountains, an inventor named Victor

creates Cynthia, an android to save his son's life. When Cynthia meets Victor's son, Carlo,

an everlasting bond is formed. On a quest to keep Carlos alive and to free herself from the

psychological imprisonment of her creator, Cynthia ponders the creation of her own

invention. Janine Robledo's original musical Ghost and the Machine is part rom-com, part

sci-fi thriller in the vein of Frankenstein meets Edward Scissorhands.