Monica Hammond is a Serial Entrepreneur and Theatrical Marketing Professional. She is the Founder of Big Leap Brands, a Marketing and Consulting Agency designed to help Experts grow and scale their businesses. She is also the Founder and CEO of Broadway Murder Mysteries and Curious Custom. She is the former Artistic Associate of The Attic Theater Company, which produced dozens of shows in New York City for its decade-long span. Before becoming CEO of The TheaterMakers Studio, Monica held the role of Director of Marketing for Tony Award-Winning Broadway Producer, Ken Davenport for nearly a decade, working on various Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, including but not limited to, the Tony Award-Winning revival of Once On This Island, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, It’s Only A Play, Gettin’ The Band Back Together, as well as the National Tour of A Night With Janis Joplin. Off Broadway: André & Dorine, Tammany Hall, That Bachelorette Show, The Awesome 80s Prom, Daddy Long Legs, Sesame Street The Musical, Clowns Like Me, and more.

Beth Blickers is an agent at IAG, where she represents artists who work in theatre, opera, dance, television and film. She started her career at the William Morris Agency, where she began work after graduating from NYU. Beth has served on the jury panel for the Weissberger Award, the Ed Kleban Award, the Lark’s PONY Fellowship and Playwrights Week and facilitated industry related workshops and panels for organizations around the country.

She is the Past President of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and is the Board Chair Emeritus of Theatre Breaking Through Barriers, a New York company that works with artists with disabilities.

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Jonathan Hogue is a Tony Award-nominated Broadway producer and two-time Drama Desk-nominated writer/composer with speciality in new work development and creative branding from nearly a decade in Executive, Administrative, and Marketing positions for Broadway & regional theatre, advertising, and NYC live events. He is the Creator and Lead Producer of Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical (Book, Music & Lyrics), a parody of the Netflix series Stranger Things, which completed a hit nine-month off-Broadway run in 2023 and launched international runs in the UK, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Canada, and across the US (Drama Desk 2023 Nominee for Outstanding Book, Lyrics, and Scenic Design of a Musical; Off-Broadway Alliance 2023 Nom - Best New Musical; 7 BroadwayWorld 2021 Awards including Best New Musical). Other producing credits: The Queen of Versailles, Illinoise, How To Dance In Ohio, and Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie. He has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Forbes, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, and Time Out New York, and has received rave reviews and awards for his various productions in NYC and around the world. Outside of producing, Jonathan works in General Management for 101 Productions supporting many Broadway productions (An Enemy of the People, Appropriate, Smash, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, among others), and has also served as a reader for TRU Voices and the Williamstown Theatre Festival Weissberger New Play Awards. He holds a MFA in Theatre Management & Producing from Columbia University, and is a proud member of the Broadway League. For more info, visit JonathanHogue.com.

Jane Dubin is a TONY Award-winning producer and the President of Double Play Connections, a theatrical production and management
company committed to supporting emerging artists and playwrights in the creation and development of new works. Jane is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute's 14-week (NYC) and O’Neill Center Intensive (CT) Producing Workshops and Director of Theater Resources Unlimited’s Producer Development Program Master Class. Ms. Dubin is Chair of the Board of Directors of Houses on the Moon Theater Company and a recent Board member of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She was a Tony voter for seven years.

She is a member of the Broadway Women’s Alliance, the Off-Broadway Alliance, and the Off-Broadway League. She was co-curator of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center New Play Reading Series; co-producer of Hudson River Rising, presenting events in Westchester for One Billion Rising (V-Day); strategic consultant to SPACE on Ryder Farm; and a member of the Grand Jury for the New York Musical Festival for 5 seasons. She served as an evaluator for a NAMT innovation grant panel and for Bethany Arts Community’s residency program. She is a frequent panelist and guest lecturer on theater-related matters. Jane serves on the advisory boards of Elizabeth Mascia Child Care Center (Westchester), Axial Theatre and Dirty Laundry Theatre.

Before embarking on her career in theater, Ms. Dubin spent over 20 years in the financial services industry. Trained as an actuary, she was a Managing Director of a large insurance/investment company and then principal of a private investment firm, as the Director of Marketing and Client Services. Ms. Dubin has an MBA in Finance from NYU and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Rochester, with a BA in Mathematics and an MS in Public Policy Analysis. While at Rochester, she was awarded an internship at the White House.

Productions: Recent: STILL, with Tim Daly and Jayne Atkinson. Upcoming: The Village of Vale – an original audio musical. Previously: Is This A Room, Dana H., The Prom (Drama Desk Award Best Musical), Farinelli and the King (starring Mark Rylance, nominated for 5 Tony Awards), An American in Paris (4 TONY Awards, plus London and National Tour), Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (Westside Theater and on Tour), Ann, starring Holland Taylor (Lincoln Center); Bandstand (Broadway), Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008 GLAAD Media Award for Theatre); Groundswell (the New Group), Peter and the Starcatcher (Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tour), winner of 5 TONY Awards; The Norman Conquests (TONY Award, Best Play Revival), The 39 Steps (OB, Tour); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (London). Film: Radium Girls.

Dominick LaRuffa Jr. recently wrapped the Off-Broadway world premiere of ‘Til Death starring opposite Tony Winners Judy Kaye and Robert Cuccioli. Just after doing double duty; simultaneously leading the world premiere of Powerhouse (A.R.T NY) Off-Broadway and producing The Kite Runner on Broadway. Dom is most commonly known for his film and television work with more recent credits including Paul on the long running hit CBS/Paramount+ legal drama Bull, a recurring role on Gravesend (Amazon), the Martin Scorsese epic The Irishman (Netflix), and soon to be co-starring in the psychological thriller feature, Abandoned Heights.

Dominick is the founder of Blue Collar Artist Studio. He is an acting coach, producing and development consultant, dramaturg, and a six-time Tony award nominated producer. Off-Broadway principle roles include How Alfo Learned to Love (59E59), My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis (The Theater Center), My Big Gay Italian Wedding, My Big Gay Italian Funeral, among others. His work as a Broadway producer includes: All The Way, You Can’t Take It With You, On The Town, Deaf West Theatre’s Revival of Spring Awakening, The Realistic Joneses, China Doll, Six Degrees of Separation, American Son, The Lifespan of a Fact, and Betrayal.

Maya Davis is a Black biracial NY-based producer and director with a mission to create art that lives at the intersection of social progress and artistic excellence. She is currently the Producer at Williamstown Theatre Festival, an Associate Member of The Wooster Group, and Associate Director & Producer on Waterwell's upcoming FORD / HILL Project. Maya has directed and produced in NYC at institutions including National Black Theatre, The Wooster Group, The TEAM, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Flea, The Tank, The Drawing Center, and Fordham University, and regionally at Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center. In addition to her theater work, Maya produces radio plays and films, and she co-creates immersive games and escape rooms.

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Neil Gooding is currently one of the producers of Back To The Future in the West End, Broadway and on the US Tour. This year, Neil was one of the Producers of Harmony on Broadway . Neil was also a producer for the premiere of What’s New Pussycat in Birmingham, as well as Harmony (New York), Islander (New York) and LEAP (Australia).  Other producing credits include Drummer Queens, The 39 Steps (New York), The Empire Strips Back (US Tour), The Woman In Black (Australian Tour) the Helpmann Award winning Sweet Charity, The Empire Strips Back, Handle With Care (NYC) starring Carol Lawrence and Alan Cumming’s one-man version of Macbeth (Broadway).

In 2014, Neil was the director of Passion, at the Arts Centre in Melbourne for Life Like Touring.  He also directed the Australian premiere of Dogfight by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (Hayes Theatre), the national tour of Thank You For Being A Friend, and the World Premiere of Truth, Beauty And A Picture Of You. Neil has produced and directed Sing On Through Tomorrow by Matthew Robinson, LOVEBiTES by Peter Rutherford and James Millar, Love Letters starring Ian Stenlake and Rachael Beck, Irving Berlin: Songs In The Key Of Black starring Lucy Maunder, Mitchel Butel in Killing Time, The Divine Miss Bette starring Catherine Alcorn, as well as being one of the producers of the hit Australian play Holding The Man in the West End starring Jane Turner and Simon Burke. In 2009, he produced the original tour of Breast Wishes and directed and produced the Australian premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical! for which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award and a Green Room Award for his direction. In 2008, Neil produced (with WhiteBox) the World Premiere of The Hatpin starring Caroline O’Connor, Peter Cousens, Barry Crocker AM and Melle Stewart, which then went on to perform at the NYMF in New York. Neil also served as the Assistant Director on both of these productions. 

For several years, Neil was employed by Jacobsen Entertainment, where he responsible for the financial administration of the Arena Productions of The Man From Snowy River Arena Spectacular, the Long Way to the Top concert series, De La Guarda and Dirty Dancing, as well as being the tour accountant on the road with Ja Rule & Ashanti in 2003. Neil also worked for Delta Goodrem and toured Australia as her Tour Accountant on her Visualise Tour. 

Neil is the author of Back to the 80’s (which is now produced hundreds of times around the world every year), and Popstars.

He has been awarded a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Queensland and was the Chairman and one of the founding members of Hayes Theatre Co in Sydney.

Jeremy Handelman is a two-time Tony Award nominated producer whose many credits include the Broadway productions and national tours of both The Kite Runner and John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons, the Broadway revival of On the Town, and the Off Broadway and regional production of the rock musical comedy Brooklyn Crush, formerly F#%king Up Everything (NY Times Critics' Pick). He has executive produced many other productions and staged readings, including the acclaimed production of The Chekhov Dreams.

Eric Webb is a NYC based writer and dramaturg whose plays and musicals have been produced in NYC and Tokyo. As a dramaturg, Eric has worked with The TheaterMakers Studio and Ken Davenport since 2013 as Director of Creative Development, aiding hundreds of writers and composers in achieving their goals of moving from the page to the stage. Eric also previously served as Artistic Director for March Forth Productions, Literary and Marketing Manager for La Vie Productions, and Dramaturg for Young Playwrights, Inc. Writing projects in development include Rise (with composer Scott Wilkinson), Breakup - The Musical (with composer Stephanie Bianchi), and Thompson/Gifford. Previous writing credits include #JustBeYou (Random Farms Kids’ Theater, JOY Kids’ Theater), A White Man’s Guide to Rikers Island (Players Theater, Gene Frankel Theater), “Orion” (short film), The Angels of Mons (March Forth Productions/Horsetrade at Theater Under St. Marks).