PRODUCING WORK
BROADWAY
The Awaken Entertainment Team pointing to our name on the marquis.
TONY Awards Me & producing partner Angie Canuel Dress made by Scott Westervelt
Green Day's American Idiot
Superior Donuts
Producer in association with Awaken Entertainment
(Drama Desk and TONY nominations for Best Musical)
A critical smash on Broadway and in London, the two-time Tony Award® winning hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Their quest for true meaning in a post 9/11 world leads them on the most exhilarating theatrical journey of the season.
Based on Green Day's GRAMMY® Award-winning multi-platinum album, AMERICAN IDIOT boldly takes the American musical where it's never gone before. The result is an experience Charles Isherwood of The New York Times declares "thrilling, emotionally charged, and as moving as any Broadway musical I've seen this year!"
Producer in association with Awaken Entertainment
The passive Arthur Przybyszewski owns a decrepit donut shop in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The dynamic Franco Wicks, a black teenager who is his only employee, wants to improve the place.
Superior Donuts is a play by American playwright Tracy Letts. Its world premiere was staged by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2008, and it premiered onBroadway at The Music Box Theatre in 2009.
OFF & OFF OFF BROADWAY
Gregorian
Life Without Parole
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
Gregorian portrays one family's journey through the bloodiest century in human history as four generations discover the gravity of a name passed from father to son. Beginning with the Gregorian family's own tragic roots in the Armenian Genocide, through the rise of the Nazi Party, across the killing fields of Cambodia, and the continuing crisis in Africa, they do all they can to hold on to heritage, history, and hope.
Written by Matthew Greene
New York Premiere at Walker Space: Soho Playhouse
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
Inspired by original transcripts from real-life case studies of incarcerated domestic violence survivors, Life Without Parole takes you "behind the barbed wire" exposing how these convicted women bond together, explore their pasts, and survive when orange becomes their new black and blue. www.LifeWithoutParolePlay.com
Written by Warren Doody
New York Premiere at Teatro La Tea as part of the 18th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.
Created and Choreographed By Charlie Sutton
Alex Michael Stoll plays a hospital orderly.
Alex Michael Stoll welcomes Rachel Rak as Francis Farmer to Hollywood.
Created and Choreographed By Charlie Sutton
The Big Show
Full Cast of 110 Stories on stage for the 10th Anniversary staged reading.
110 Stories
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
The Big Show, created by Charlie Sutton and starring Rachel Rak, is an immersive re-imagination of the Eugine O'Neil play Thirst as told through the life story of fallen Hollywood star Francis Farmer.
*Grants awarded from chashama and
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Producer in association with Awaken Entertainment
10th Anniversary Memorial Production for the City of New York
NYU Skirball Center
Created by Sarah Tuft, 110 Stories captures the grief and resilience of New York City in the wake of September 11th through the words of those who experienced it directly -- not only the firefighters and police, but the ironworkers, chaplains, K9 handlers, nurses, photojournalists, and the homeless who witnessed the horrific events and saved lives that day, too. Together these unflinching first-person testimonials offer catharsis by revealing the hope, humor, and compassion that emerged in the midst of this tragedy. Memorializing 9/11 by sharing the stories no one saw on the news, this play is a powerful and humanizing account of New York City's darkest day.
Photo Courtesy of Hugh Hales-Tooke
Photo Courtesy of Hugh Hales-Tooke
The Golden Aurora
Produced By: Working Artists Theatre Project, Angie Canuel, and Jessica Dermody
The Dance
The Journey choreographed by Chad Luke Schiro
Produced By: Working Artists Theatre Project, Angie Canuel, and Jessica Dermody
Timberlake
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
The world premiere of The Golden Aurora written by acclaimed playwright Steven Fechter was presented at the 12th annual New York International Fringe Festival.
Written by Steven Fechter
World Premiere at The Bleeker Street Theatre
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
Timberlake; American Pulp is inspired by American movie melodramas of the 1950's and explores the cosequences of repressed sexuality, thwarted desire, and unrequited love.
Written by John Alban Coughlan
Directed By; John Kinsherf
Choreographed By: Chad Luke Schiro
New York Premiere at The Michael Weller Theatre
Welcome to the Jungle
Tall Tales from the Little Black Book
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
This wildly imaginative Sketch & Dance Odyssey created and choreographed by Chad Luke Schiro was an official selection of ANTFEST 2013 and played to sold out audiences.
This pop cultre multimedia extravaganza mixes sketch videos with live dance performance and sketch scenes for an epic theatrical experience.
Written by Chad Luke Schiro
World Premiere at Ars Nova
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
Tall Tales from the Little Black Book tells the simultaneous stories of four couples, each unknowingly related in one degree of separation.
Co-Directed for WAT Projects first directors collaborative by:
Amy Neswald, Steve Witting, Jessica Dermody, and Ari Laura Kreith
Written by Christopher Warre Smet
New York Premiere at The Michael Weller Theatre
FILM & VIDEO
Construction
Welcome to the Jungle
Associate Producer Jessica Dermody in association with
Vision Vehicle Productions
Vin, Bobby, and Ray are three blue-collar guys that can't seem to get things to line up in their lives. They had so many dreams when they were 18, but then life seemed to catch up with them, and now they feel stuck in every way. This is a story about men and the women who make them better.
Produced By: Jessica Dermody in association with
Working Artists Theatre Project
This wildly imaginative Sketch & Dance Odyssey, created and choreographed by Chad Luke Schiro, was an official selection of ANTFEST 2013 and played to sold-out audiences.
This pop culture multimedia extravaganza mixes sketch videos with live dance performances and sketch scenes for an epic theatrical experience.
Written by: Chad Luke Schiro
Directed By: Jessica Dermody
Director of Photography: Josh Gohlke
World Premiere at Ars Nova
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