Windywoo and her Naughty  Naughty Pets are devastated to learn that the building, where they reside, is being sold to a New York real estate developer. Their beloved neighborhood is changing, and Hector, the building owner, wants them out! Will the power of pets move the human heart and save the day? Against all odds, Windywoo keeps her family of pets together and learns that a home isn't as important as having someone to come home to.

Windywoo and Her Naughty Naughty Pets delivers a message of human kindness, love of pets, and the importance of families of all kinds. This delightful story will appeal to audiences of all ages, with real-world situations, infectious songs, and charming humor.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY

• OCTOBER 2022 - Legacy Theatre, Branford CT - Family Series

• JUNE 2022 - Legacy Theatre, Branford CT - Concert Version

• NOVEMBER 2019 - Upcoming 3 Presentations ~ Nov 23 & 24 ART NY Theatres

• AUGUST 2019 - Accepted into Amas Musical Theatre Dare to be Different Festival

• FEBRUARY - MARCH 2019 - Dramaturgical work session on a new script and new song completed

• JANUARY 2019 - Private Reading - reassembled original NYMF cast

• JUNE 2017 - Recorded "Pets what Are They For" with Remy Zaken

• MARCH 2016 - Presented at Atlantic Theatre Company in a reading

• JULY 2015 - Accepted in the NY Musical Theatre Festival Staged Reading Series

Wendy ANN Gardner - Creator

Wendy Ann Gardner (Book/Music/Lyrics) is a composer, lyricist, and author who lives in New York City. Windywoo and Her Naughty Naughty Pets, debuted in the 2015 New York Musical Theater Festival as a Developmental Reading, directed by award-winning Jonathan Cerullo, produced by Tony Award-winning producer Greg Nobile (Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy) and Seaview Productions.

Wendy was nominated for two Gemini Awards in 2006 and 2007 for her Animated TV show, The Naughty Naughty Pets, produced by CBC Canada and Decode Entertainment, which aired on Cartoon Network, CBC, BBC, NHK and has been translated into 7 languages and syndicated worldwide.

In 2006 she wrote a series of children's books about the Naughty Naughty Pets characters, published by Hyperion Books for Children. She is the founder and creator of Scary Stories Inc., which licensed her unique graphics, commissioned by many companies, notably, Target, Nylabone, Paul Frank Industries, Mudpuppy, and Fiesta for use as logos, branding, plush toys and character art. Her illustrations of the Naughty Naughty Pets have been licensed worldwide to create various children’s products and accessories since 1998.

She is a member of ASCAP, ACTRA, and the Dramatist Guild and sits on the board of All Out Arts. a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting prejudice through the arts. Wendy Ann Gardner is an Honors graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) Toronto, Canada, and is currently enrolled at Hunter College (CUNY) in the MA Visual Arts Education program. She is currently working on a musical adaptation of her children’s book, Yes, A Cat Named Marty Cohen.

She has been featured in popular and industry publications such as In Style, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Fortune Small Business, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Playthings Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Working Mother, and Elle Décor.

Wendy lives in New York City with her husband, her two children and her real life Naughty Naughty Pets.

JONATHAN CERULLO - Director

Jonathan S. Cerullo: Broadway/NYC: choreographic consultant: Say Goodnight, Gracie, assistant director and/or choreo: Band In Berlin, Anna Karenina, The Three Musketeers, original cast: Legs Diamond, choreographer, Big Apple Circus’ Carnivale! & Picturesque (Lincoln Center). Directed/author, A Lotta Night Music Benefit Concert Honoring Patricia Birch and Len Cariou, (Amas Musical Theatre 55yr Gala), produced/directed With Love Now and Forever CATS4COVID Relief Reunion Concert original cast Cats National. Off-Broadway: produced/directed, Legs Diamond Reunion Concert (Feinstein’s/54 Below & NYPL Lincoln Center), directed and/or choreo, The Flip Side and No Foolin’ (Amas Music Theatre), Fictitious (Theatre Now NY - 2016 Best Director), Windywoo (Amas Musical Theatre, NYMF & Legacy Theatre), Pins and Needles (La Mama), Uta Hagen’s Tribute (Town Hall), Chance choreographer; Under Fire (2009 Best of Fest NYMF).  TV/Film: created and directed; “Dear Mr. Gershwin” (CBC TV), choreo, “Evening At Pops”, assistant director, “Donny Osmond's, This Is The Moment”, “Natalie Cole’s Christmas Special” all for Great Performances. Film: “The First Wives Club”, “The Stepford Wives”, “The Cowboy Way”. Regional: Denver Center, Goodspeed, Arena Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Uta Hagen in Six Dance Lessons; Geffen Playhouse Member of Stage Directors & Choreographers Union (President’s Award 2023), AEA, Dramatist Guild, and former Callaway & Lortel Awards committees. Artistic Associate at Amas Music Theatre. For more information please visit; www.jsctheatricals.com

STEPHANIE BIANCHI- MUSIC DIRECTOR

Stephanie Bianchi is a music director, board-certified music therapist, voice over actor, and composer/lyricist. She has written and performed music and lyrics for a variety of TV and radio shows and ads, independent films, children’s videos, and educational programs. She founded Synaptic Soul - a band of music therapists created to raise music therapy awareness and serve as a platform for MT causes, and wrote all the songs on their 2011 debut album “Awake”. She is also one half of the musical theater writing duo Whiskey and Fall Weather (with Eric C. Webb). Their current projects in development include the irreverent anti-romantic musical comedy “Breakup”, a yet-to-be-titled rock musical about John Wilkes Booth, and a supernatural musical thriller based on a documented New York ghost story. Additionally, she is Music Director for The Guided Imagery Opera, an experimental immersive opera experience created by Joule L’Adara of Sounding Circles.

Nikolas George Brown * (Stage Manager)

Nikolas has been professional Stage Managing for the past 10 years Credits include. Broadway: Michael Jackson The Musical, Once Upon A One More Time the Britney Spears Musical, SIX the Musical, Gatsby: The Great Gatsby Musical, The Illusionist The Magic of the Holidays. National Tours: Bring It On The Musical. Off-Broadway: The Crusaded of Conner Stephens, Little Shop of Horrors at New York City Center, Romeo and Juliet at Classic Stage Company. New York City: New York Musical Theater Festival, New York Fringe Festival and New York International Theater Festival. Regional Theater: The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, The MUNY, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis and Cleveland Public Theater. Love to family and friends.

AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE

Amas Musical Theatre is a non-profit, multi-ethnic theatrical organization founded in 1968 by Ms. Rosetta LeNoire. Amas (“you love” in Latin) is devoted to the creation, development and professional production of new American musicals through the celebration of diversity and minority perspectives, the emergence of new artistic talent, and the training and encouragement of underserved young people in the New York area.

Amas celebrates its impact in pioneering multi-ethnic casting in the American Theatre and reiterates its commitment to this reflection of our diverse society.

Donna Trinkoff is currently the artistic producer of Amas Musical Theatre, a non-profit performing arts organization in New York City devoted the creation, development and production of new musicals and to the training and encouragement of inner-city young people. Since 1994, Donna has produced the original musicals Broadway and the Bard, starring Len Cariou, Red Eye of Love, The Other Josh Cohen, Triassic Parq! Wanda’s World, Shout! The Mod Musical, Lone Star Love, Magpie, Stormy Weather: The Lena Horne Story, Zanna, Don’t!, Latin Heat, From My Hometown, Langston Hughes’ Little Ham, 4 Guys Named José, Rollin’ on the T.O.B.A., among others, and she has presented over 90 original musicals in the Amas Musical Theatre Lab. As Starry Night Productions, Donna presented the Off-Broadway premiere of SILENCE! The Musical (Christopher Gattelli, Hunter Bell, Jon & Al Kaplan), the unauthorized parody of the iconic film “The Silence of the Lambs” to critical acclaim, sold-out houses, and a two-year run. SILENCE! won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award and the Obie Award for Best Musical and was named as one of the 'Top 10 Plays of the Year' by TIME Magazine. The original cast album has been released on Sh-K-Boom Records. Donna was an associate artistic director at the Cabaret and Performance Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center in CT and worked with Aruba Productions on new and upcoming musicals. She holds a BA in English and Theatre from SUNY Binghamton, is a graduate of the National Theatre Institute, and she received a Certificate of Merit from the Drama Studio in London. Donna is a member of the League for Professional Theatre Women. She is a recipient of the New York Municipal Art Society Award of Merit and the Galaxy Award from the NY Women’s Association.

Greg Nobile - Executive Producer -NYMF Production

Greg Nobile is a NYC and Connecticut based theatrical producer and entrepreneur. As Co-Executive Producer at Seaview Productions with Jana Shea, Greg has produced A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Side Show on Broadway and Gypsy on London’s West End. His investment credits include the revivals of It’s Only a Play and Of Mice and Men and the new musicals Fun Home and Something Rotten. Greg holds the distinction of the being the youngest Tony Award winning producer on Broadway for his work on Gentleman’s Guide... Greg also serves as Managing Director of the Branford based nonprofit theater company, Legacy Theatre, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Branford Community Foundation and the Honest Accomplice Theater Company. Outside of the theater, Greg is opening a BBQ restaurant in Branford, CT and runs yoga retreats on an island in the Thimbles Islands. 

SEAVIEW PRODUCTIONS - PRODUCER-NYMF PRODUCTION

Seaview Productions is a Tony Award wining Broadway production company, committed to redefining on-stage storytelling through strategic innovation in creative development, audience experience, consumer engagement, and investment management. Our shows include:  A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Broadway), Side Show (Broadway), Gypsy (London), Witness Uganda (Off-Broadway).  Seaview Productions has also made investments in several current and past Broadway shows including Of Mice and Men, It's Only a Play, Fun Home, and Something Rotte.  Leading the Seaview production team are Executive Producers Greg Nobile & Jana Shea, Associate Producer Colin Sheehan, Creative Development Associate David Manella, and Director of New Business Maggie Moffett. www.SeaviewProds.com