Jay Michaels Communications/Channel i – creating visibility for independent theater, film, music, and literature has been the battle-cry of this boutique promotion and production firm for more than 20 years. Through a diverse internal multi-media platform, this communications organization is able to supply guarenteed coverage to hundreds of emerging artists and their productions while growing its external network of promotional sites and groups.

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JUNE EVENTS — NEW YORK

June 1 AT 1:00 p.m. & 4:00 p.m. – MIKE & MINDY’S WILD WEEKEND JAM
(Music & Lyrics by Bucky Heard & Timothy D. Lee of The Righteous Brothers)
Open Jar Studios, 1601 BROADWAY, 11th Floor, NYC

June 6 @ 7:30 – 8:30 pm – DOUG DEVITA’S FABLE
Event at the Drama Book Shop 266 West 39th Street New York City

June 10 @ 7pm and June 11 @ 2pm – BULLET POINTS, A NEW MUSICAL
Theatre Row Theatre Five 410 West 42nd Street New York City

June 15, 16, 18, 24, 25 @ 7:00 pm – COUGAR THE MUSICAL
The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street, New York City

June 16 – OUR LITTLE SECRET directed by Jay Michaels 7:30pm
Playwrights Horizons 416 W 42nd St, New York City

June 17 – AMANDA RECKONWITH with a special guest (7:00 p.m.)
at PANGEA 178 2nd Ave, NYC

June 21 – JULIUS CAESAR – opening June 21 at the American Theatre of Actors (info TBA)

June 23 & 24 @ 9:30 p.m. – MARIA KONNER: GIRL SHOCK PANGEA 178 2nd Ave, NYC

JUNE EVENTS — NATIONAL

Opening June 15 – THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD
(Book, Music & Lyrics by Terrence L. Cranert)
Hoogland Center for the Arts, Peggy Ryder Theater, 420 South Sixth Street, Springfield, Illinois
Through July 30.

INDEPENDENT FILMS
Bobcat Moretti (Pete Dorton, co-exec. prod; Rob Margolis, Dir./ Rob Margolis & Tim Realbuto, Wtrs.)
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant – LIVE! by Kyle Jarrow (a concept by Alex Timbers) 
The Red Light by Jim Kierstead (seeking investors)
ERIK by Bill Oberst, Jr. & Jay Michaels (in devlopment)

STAGE PLAYS SEEKING INVESTMENT
How to Write An Irish Play by John Grissmer
Sincerly Held Beliefs by Bambi Everson
Girl on the Moon by Judy Pancoast
Through Their Eyes by Raymond Goode
After Happily Ever After by Roger Griffin
Phillie’s Trilogy by Doug DeVita
Beasties: A Sci-Fi Rock Opera by Gary Sohmers
Finding Helena, a musical by Alexandra Conroy

LITERARY
Right This Way by Robert Viagas Amazon.com

READ ABOUT ALL THESE PRODUCTIONS AND THE INDUSTRY IN FIVE STAR ARTS JOURNALS

ArtsIndependent
In-Depth Studies of Independent Arts & Artists (the flagship site)

DramaQueensReviews
Exploring Feminine Art & Artists

OuterStage
Cutting-Edge Work in & out of NYC

Words4Culture
Musical Theatre, Cabaret, Nightlife, and Culture

ArtistsWrites
Literary Critiques and Publications

InDfilm
Visionary Independent Film & Filmmakers

ShowTones
Spotlighting the Emerging Artist

OMNIARTISTS
Exploring Film & Theatre Technicians

The PassionPit
Indie Arts & Artists on Medium.com

In the Dark with Jay Michaels
Exploring Fright & Fantasy

Taking the Stand
Political Views from the Artistic Community

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Jay Michaels began his arts career during the original off-off Broadway movement in New York. He is co-founder with Broadway staff veteran, Mary Elizabeth Micari) of Genesis Repertory, a non-profit arts & education organization named after one of the original movement theatres. Michaels was part of Lincoln Center’s tribute to Caffe Chino and the original Genesis theatre. While Jay Michaels is known as a prominent stage and film director/producer and promotional executive, his past credentials also include special events assistant at the New York Daily News for projects at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Madison Square Garden; a national tour manager for Cats, Edwin Drood, and Les Miserables; television media buying associate; and senior event marketing executive for international galas and fundraisers including speech-writing for dignitaries including the Weisslers, the Nederlander and Shubert organizations, James Earl Jones, and Hilary Clinton to name a few. He served on the promotional staff for The Joyce Theater’s Drama Desk award-winning American Theater Exchange series in 1986 as well as managing promotional events for Broadway shows, Guys & Dolls (1992), Damn Yankees (1994), Vagina Monologues (2005) and Beginnings (2018).

His boutique PR firm, JMGC, handles some of New York’s most prominent indie theatre artists and numerous indie filmmakers and festivals. He is also professor of communications at several universities.