WEST END ARTISTS
THE TEAM
EDMUND GAYNES - President/CEO
As a theatre producer, Mr. Gaynes’ Off-Broadway productions include the current hit Black Angels Over Tuskegee (8 years), as well as recent long-running productions of Zero Hour (Drama Desk Award), The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith (Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical, The Rise of Dorothy Hale, The Big Voice: God or Merman?, Cougar The Musical, Picon Pie, Emily Mann’s Annulla, A Brush With Georgia O’Keeffe, Trolls, Panache, Chaim’s Love Song, Matty: An Evening with Christy Mathewson, Einstein: A Stage Portrait and Bein’ With Behan, which was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award. He produced the West Coast premieres of Marry Me a Little and Starting Here, Starting Now and was nominated for four Ovation Awards, Los Angeles’ highest theatre honors, for his productions of The Taffetas and Songs the Girls Sang.
Mr. Gaynes also produced the National Tour of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical, which played coast to coast.
He currently operates two Off-Broadway theatres in New York City: St. Luke’s Theatre and Actors Temple Theatre, as well as the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center, the Avery Schreiber Playhouse and the BrickHouse Theatre in Los Angeles. In addition to the above New York producing credits, he has produced throughout the country, with over forty productions in Los Angeles alone.
He has also appeared as an actor in 13 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows including Greenwillow with Anthony Perkins, The Body Beautiful with Jack Warden, Promenade with Madeline Kahn, Edward Albee’s Bartleby and Best Foot Forward, in which he co-starred with Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli and sang “Buckle Down, Winsocki” on the original cast album. Directors he has worked with include Elia Kazan, Stella Adler, Herb Ross, George Abbott, George Roy Hill, Bobby Lewis, Peter Hunt, George Schaeffer, Robert Moore, Alan Schneider, Joe Layton, Gene Saks, Martin Charnin and Jerome Robbins. TV credits range from Mary Martin’s “Peter Pan” to “Cheers”, “Kojak”, a recurring role on “The Patty Duke Show”, “N.Y.P.D.”, “The Sid Caesar Hour”, “Playhouse 90”, “The Ed Sullivan Show”, among many others, as well as a two-year run as Paul Stewart on “As the World Turns”.
Mr. Gaynes was reently presented with a “Legend of Off-Broadway” honor by the Off-Broadway Alliance at Sardi’s in New York City.
GEORGIANA MITROI - Associate General Manager/Company Manager
A key West End executive, Georgiana is currently the company manager of the long-running Sistas and This One’s for The Girls, at St. Luke's Theatre and Associate general manager of Vilna at Actor’s Temple. She was also previously Company Manager of Ruthless at St. Luke's Theatre, Soul Doctor at Actors Temple Theatre and Austin at Theatre Row. Working with Jessimeg Productions. Georgiana was also been Associate General Manager of Baghdaddy at St. Luke 's Theatre and Zero Hour at Theatre at St. Clements. Other company management credits include This One’s for the Girls, Babette’s Feast, Geo also oversees all ticketing platforms and marketing for the company.
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ADAM SMITH JR. - Treasurer
Adam has served as a Treasurer for over 60 stage production with time at the Shubert Organization, The Theatres at 45 Bleecker, The Davenport Theatre, and West End Artists. Prior to managing box office businesses, Adam was a Vice President at Options Group working for Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. He has also served as Director of Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations at the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival.
JENNIFER KRANZ has over two decades of experience in production and marketing in entertainment. She’s held tenures at Cablevision, Time Warner, Lifetime Television, NBC Universal, and AMC Networks where she worked on Top 5 TV businesses such as USA Network, Sci Fi Channel, Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network.
She is an expert in what drives the primary ticket-buying audience – women - to consume television, movies, and theater. Other areas of expertise include script development, strategic planning for theater and media, research and analytics best practices. She is a consultant to the TV industry and theatrical producing companies including Rosalind Productions Inc. as Director of Creative Development and Parity Productions as Producing Artistic Director as well as Broadway co-producer.
Jennifer has a Masters degree in Entertainment Finance and Marketing from New York University. She has guest lectured at NYU’s Stern School of Business and is a Betsy Magness Leadership Fellow. She is a voting member of the TV Academy of Arts and Sciences and a board member of influencer Theater Company Page 73.
PAMELA HALL - Artistic Director Pamela directed the recent hit musical Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical, which ran for three years Off-Broadway. Other Off-Broadway directorial credits include The Rise of Dorothy Hale, Emily Mann’s Annulla, and Dietrich and Chevalier, all at St. Luke’s Theatre, Trolls at the Actors Playhouse, Neva Small: Not Quite an Ingenue at Actors Temple Theatre, and the long-running hit, Picon Pie at the DR2 and Lambs Theatres.
Pamela directed the National Tour of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical. She was also nominated for Los Angeles’s highest theatre honor, the Ovation Award, for her direction of the Los Angeles premiere of The Taffetas. She directed the West Coast premieres of Jeff Daniels’ black comedy, Shoe Man, the Fred Allen bio-play Mr. Allen, Mr. Allen, Maltby and Shire’s Starting Here, Starting Now and the long-running original musical Crazy Words, Crazy Tunes at the Westwood Playhouse. Pamela also directed Hand in Hand: The Un-Musical, the first musical created and performed by the acclaimed Tony-nominated Deaf West Theatre.
As an actor, Pamela has played leading roles on Broadway as Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Phil Silvers, Nina in Dear World with Angela Lansbury, and Martha Jefferson in 1776 (with William Daniels and Howard DaSilva) and was featured in the all-star Sondheim: A Musical Tribute at the Shubert Theatre.
She directed Promenade, for Legacy: The Musicals of Off-Broadway, at New World Stages. She had alternated with Madeline Kahn in the Original Off-Broadway production of Promenade.
Additional Staff
Phillip Arran
Jana Holkova
Wesley Barnes
Guy Lemonnier