Stardate 2525….actually it was 2014, I produced a sci-fi comedy musical in the the Mid Winter Madness Short Play Festival, NYC. Directed by Eren T. Gibson. Great cast, great audience feedback and reviews. Anyway, a few months after the festival ended, I get a call from one of the festival organizers that we should come to the award ceremony the next night, and he left it at that. So I called the cast, and a few of them were available and we went the next night. We sat there, and about halfway through the ceremony, we heard our show name called, four times in a row for the following: OUTSTANDING MUSICAL PRODUCTION, OUTSTANDING NEW SCRIPT/PLAYWRIGHT/BOOK/MUSIC/LYRICS FOR A MUSICAL, OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION VALUES IN A MUSICAL, and OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL (TRISTAN MILLER)…..surprised, happy, and proud of the cast….motivated me to write the full version which is ready to go for full production.
Jon is an award winning actor, screenwriter and playwright. His films include Luc Besson’s The Family with Robert De Niro, Run with Eric Roberts, and recently Big Time Adolescence with Jon Cryer. He received best actor award in Sisyphus’ Supper at the Take Two Film Festival in New York City, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival. His TV credits include The Blacklist, and Law & Order SVU. Jon is also the co-producer/actor in 50 To Death, and award winning web series about three boomers jousting with the 21st Century. His New York theater credits include George Tabori’s Mein Kampf, and Imagine Dat! a solo show about Jimmy Durante, and regionally in Over The River and Through The Woods, and Breaking Legs. Among his writing credits, his screenplay, Who Wants To Marry My Husband, was produced and distributed as a feature film by Echelon Entertainment Group. He also co-wrote with Letty Serra, the eleven times awarded screenplay, Say Nothing, about the untold story of Italian incarceration in an American concentration camp in Maryland during World War Two, and won three screenplay awards for his thriller feature script, Sparks. His sci-fi comedy musical Alien Adventure The Adventure won four awards at the Midtown International Theatre Festival In New York City. Weekly, Jon teaches the Improvisation Workshop at the SAG-AFTRA Conservatory in New York City. Prior to acting, Jon served as a naval officer, taught undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, was a research psychologist for the government, and had a private practice in clinical psychology. He has a PhD in experimental and organizational psychology, and a postdoc PhD. in clinical psychology. Jon also consults as an executive presentation coach with Harrison Monarth, a New York Times best-selling author and owner of Gurumaker.
