ABOUT

Bay Bridge Productions is a new media and film/theatre production company. Bay Bridge focuses on websites and online marketing for the Broadway industry. Bay Bridge also produces independent film and theatre.

Some of our Broadway new media clients include: A Bronx Tale, Grey Gardens The Musical, Stomp Out Loud-Las Vegas, Broadway Asia Entertainment, The National Tour of Eve Ensler's The Good Body, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, 37 Arts, Company, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Mimi Le Duck, and The Fantasticks.

Our film producing credits include Candy Stripers (2006), Kill the Day (2008) and Memorial Day (2008). Theatre producing credits include How Love is Spelt (Summer Play Festival, 2005), Saving the Greeks (14th St. Theater, 2005) and John Walker the Musical (New York International Fringe Festival, 2004).

Founders

LAURA WAGNER (Co-Founder) is a producer and director. Recent projects include the Broadway production of The Good Body, Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets, How Love is Spelt by Chloe Moss, The Name of This Play is Talking Heads by Marc Spitz, John Walker: The Musical by Jean Strong and John McCloskey, Jocasta Rising by C. Michèle Kaplan, and the award-winning film Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey.

JEAN STRONG (Co-Founder) is a web producer and musical theatre composer/writer.

Jean Strong has been a professional in the new media industry since 1998. Projects have included creating multimedia presentations, web design and training, digital audio /video production and editing for the web, and user interface design. Corporate Client list: Scholastic Inc., JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, New England Foundation for the Arts, Brown Brothers Harriman, Sephora, and New York City Administration for Childrens Services.

Jean co-wrote the book music and lyrics for John Walker: The Musical, produced as part of the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. The New York Times declared John Walker “spirited and charismatic” and NYTheater.com reviewed John Walker as a “darkly funny, surprisingly thoughtful satire with a bold, moving score.”

Jean Strong composed the score for Matt Jarrett’s film "The Misconception of Randal Bimford" presented at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Listen to that score and more eclectic music selections here.

Jean also wrote, directed and composed the score for "Domestic Bliss" the first movie musical presented online by IFILM.net and the first musical ever distributed via the Internet. Jon Gilbert Leavitt of Radio Stonewall reviewed “Domestic Bliss” as “John Waters’ ‘Female Trouble’ meets ‘Mame’ or the Neely O'Hara production of ‘Pink Flamingos.’ This is funny stuff." View video clips here.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

KEITH KIYA WILSON is a producer and business strategist. Keith has worked on projects involving theater, film, radio, and online gaming. Keith Wilson's companies and projects have retained six million in funding from multiple venture capital investors. As founder of BeeHive Inc, Keith managed the development of Ichat, the first web-based chat technology. He went on to found BeeLine, the Boston area’s first pure web development firm. Keith managed distribution and marketing of a national Public radio series staring Christopher Lydon.


NAOMI MERSKY is a freelance strategic planner in the marketing and advertising industry. Naomi has worked on major projects for Saatchi & Saatchi, Avrett Free & Ginsberg and Unit 7. As a freelancer , Naomi provides consulting in a full range of freelance strategic planning capabilities including branding, positioning, ethnography, qualitative research and nurturing creative development.

MEMBERSHIPS

Bay Bridge is a proud member of New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media and New York Women in Film and Television.