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Jay Michaels is a stage and film producer/director with a specialty in communications, marketing and promotion. He has been part of the independent theater and film movement since 1977 and was part of Lincoln Center’s tribute to Caffe Cino and the original off-off Broadway movement in 1985.

He began working as an actor in 1982 in Raymond Gasper’s production of Hamlet Italic texton Theatre Row’s original Lion Theatre and appeared as Nachum, the Beggar, in Fiddler on the RoofItalic text at Lincoln Center’s outdoor festival in 1983. He transitioned shortly after that to working behind the scenes. He began that part of his career as a member of the production staff for Hard TimesItalic text, 1984Italic text, and Romulus Linney’s Holy GhostsItalic text at the Joyce Theater’s American Theater series, which won a 1986 Drama Desk Award. He also served on the production staff of events featuring Eliot Feld, Meredith Monk, Pilobolus, and the Nicholas Brothers. He went to serve as a national tour manager for Les Miserables, Cats, OliverItalic text, and Edwin DroodItalic text and a production associate at PBS for the special series, '''Increase the Peace. 'Italic text'' As a stage & film producer/director, he worked with David Canary, Tovah Feldshuh, George Morfogen, and Adrienne Shelly and the Missing Children Theater, to name a few, at venues including the Pearl Theater, Perry Street Theater, Theater Off-Park, The Wild Project, LaMama, American Theater of Actors, and much of Theatre Row. He directed the final company of LINE  Italic textat the 13th Street Playhouse. His career as a promotional executive began on Broadway with Guys & Dolls (1992) and continued with Damn Yankees (1994), The Vagina Monologues (2005) and recently with Beginnings (2017). He served on the promotional staff for The Daily News, producing events at Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, and Atlantic City. He served as copywriter for Bob Hope at Carnegie Hall featuring Skitch Henderson and his orchestra. As senior marketing executive for an international philanthropy, he produced large scale events at which he also served as speech writer and coach to dignitaries including James Earl Jones, Jon Stewart, Rocco Landesman, Barry Weissler, and Hillary Clinton.

Continuing in marketing and promotion creating campaigns including social media, web content composition and management, and graphic design for Luxury Universal Experience, Diamonds.net, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, among others.

In 1997, he opened a nonprofit arts & education organization: Genesis Repertory , founded with Mary Elizabeth Micari, this non-profit arts organization is dedicated to creating opportunities for young and emerging artists on stage and in film & TV. Genesis supports a stage unit (producing original works, contemporary plays and much of Shakespeare’s canon); a film unit (producing three independent films), and an education unit that supports classes in voice, acting, and play-writing. He also fostered its promotional arm: MC: Channel I – a network of programs featuring – and dedicated to – independent artists.

Jay is a professor of speech communication, media culture, and theater, and lectures at various universities around the tree-state area. A noted genre film and television historian, Jay hosted programs including Terror Talk, In the Passion Pit, Nocturnes, and The Fourth Folio. He can be found producing/presiding conventions including Phoenix Fear Con, Phantasm Con, and Boston Sci-F Film Festival. He is also a published writer and reviewer.

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