Meet Our Team

Thalia Alexiou

Executive Director

Thalia Alexiou has spent most of her life as an alternative medicine therapist and spiritual coach workshop instructor in the U.S. and Europe. She has a B.A. in Home Economics from Athens Academy (1971), has earned her Master Teacher certification under Dr. Lorraine Opsitos and is certified in Holistic Psychology at the United Reiki Association (1998). She also studied Theater at Wilkes University. She saw clients for 28 years at her office in Edison, NJ. Since retiring in 2014, she has lead numerous workshops in the United States and Greece, known to connect her clients to “their inner doctor”. Inspired to write, she is the author of two published books Gratitude=Increase (2016), a self improvement workbook, and 49 Years After, a novel based on her life story which she co-wrote with Dr. Michael Kokkinaris and Petra Terzi. Her life in filmmaking began in 2016 when her novel became the short films “Above Limits” (2017) and “The Gifted” (2018) which she worked hard to produce and won many awards in the festival circuit, as well as a NYWIFT screening at Anthology Films. She has been an active member of NYWIFT since May 2017. She is currently overseeing the creative processes as well as producing, writing, and managing various film, theatrical, and animation projects with her partners at Trinity Theatrics.

John Lant

Producer/Director of Development

John is a 40-year veteran in the entertainment industry and has been involved in over 600 television, film, music tours, and theatrical productions as a creative director, consultant, and/or above the line entity. He currently lives in New York, working as production manager at Carnegie Hall for 13 years pre-COVID and out of producing offices here and in LA. An award-winning producer, director, writer, lighting and set designer, John has mounted productions at Cal Arts, Ricardo Montalban, Powerhouse, Long Beach Playhouse, Glendale Center, Hollywood Playhouse, LATC, Ivy Substation, the Jewel Box Theatres and Write Act Repertory in LA. His work and productions garnered DramaLogue, Diamond, ADA, NAACP Awards, LA Weekly and Backstage Picks of the Week, Garland and Valley Theatre (LA) nominations. John’s professional work includes The Alliance Theater in Atlanta and in New York at Lincoln Center, Juilliard, Lucille Lortel, Circle Rep, WPA, LOOM, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lamb’s, Equity Library, Hudson Guild, Ken Davenport, St. Luke’s, St. Clements, 777, and Elektra Theatres. National Tour work includes Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Singin’ In The Rain, One Mo’ Time Aeros and worked with Jonathan Sanger at Chanticleer Films, on two shorts that won an Emmy and an Oscar, and mentored under Howard Storm. Scripts he has developed include Children’s TV Pilots Symphology, Carrot Talk, and cable-themed Anonymous Confessions, and several adapted musicals. John received the California Service Award from the State Legislature for his Community Outreach and Service to the Arts in 2000, 2001, 2008 and 2009. In NYC, he is current Production Manager at Carnegie Hall, and on down time redesigns, redevelops and refurbishes theatres including the upstairs Davenport Theatre, Elektra Theatre, Times Square Arts Center Theatres, the Richmond Shepard, and an exciting new project for late Summer 2017, refurbishing an old off-Broadway in the Theatre District to its old glory. John’s 30-week off-Broadway production of FABULOUS! The Queen of Musicals! was recently licensed through Steele Rights. This past year he produced 2 off-Broadway Shows at St. Luke’s Theatre: An Equity production of 2 By Tennessee Williams and the new musical Pillars of New York.  He is the current Producing Artistic Director of Write Act Repertory and Founding Member of newly formed N.M.C.L.O. (New Musical Civic Light Opera), concentrating on the development of second stage full musical workshop / productions for off-Broadway shows, and is also the Director of Development for Twisted Media NYC, his current musical production Lili Marlene played in LA prior to coming to Off-Broadway, and now current off-Broadway production of Eric Sirota’s Frankenstein, Michael Antin’s Swing! And Cornell Christianson’s Wicked city Blues reside here at St. Luke’s Theatre and Actors Temple respectively. He has produced 12 Off-Broadway Plays and is currently the Producing Artistic Director of The Park Theatre in Union City, NJ. A 1400-seat Broadway sized roadhouse venue.

Patricia De Jesus

Producer

Patricia De Jesus is a writer, producer, and editor with a strong passion for storytelling and history. Since graduating from Rutgers University’s with a BFA in Digital Filmmaking in 2019, she has played many roles in production and post production in both worlds of fiction and nonfiction. From associate producer and set designer on ​A Wrestling Christmas Miracle (2020)  to assistant editor on Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America (2020). She is currently freelancing as an assistant editor and archival researcher on projects at Steeplechase Films and Soledad Productions in New York, respectively, as well as co-producing, managing, and co-writing the film and television programs in development at Trinity Theatrics.