Who We Are

HUNTER ARNOLD

Broadway: Back to the Future, Here Lies Love, Once Upon a One More Time, New York, New York, Life of Pi, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, A Doll’s House, Pictures From Home, A Beautiful Noise, Ohio State Murders, A Christmas Carol, Some Like It Hot, KPOP, The Piano Lesson, Death of  a Salesman, Leopoldstadt (Tony Award), The Kite Runner, Into the Woods, A Strange Loop (Tony Award), Funny Girl, Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), Hadestown (Tony Award), Mr. Saturday Night (Tony Nomination), Plaza Suite, Company (Tony Award), Mrs. Doubtfire,  for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Tony Nomination), The Little Prince, Diana, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Caroline or Change (Tony Nomination), Chicken & Biscuits, The Inheritance (Tony Award), Tina: The Musical (Tony Nomination), Betrayal (Tony Nomination), Slava’s Snowshow, Once On This Island (Tony Award), Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award), Kinky Boots (Tony Award and Olivier Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Tony Nomination), Pretty Woman: The Musical, Anastasia, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Head Over Heels, M Butterfly, Disaster!, Allegiance, Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination), The Visit (Tony Nomination), It’s Only a Play, Mothers and Sons (Tony Nomination), The Bridges of Madison County, Macbeth, Godspell, Chinglish. London: Back to the Future (Olivier Award), Cabaret (Olivier Award), The Inheritance (Olivier Award), The Jungle, Hadestown, Tina: The Musical, Edward Albee’s The Goat with Damian Lewis. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, and Daddy Long Legs.

In addition to his producing projects Hunter is the founder and CEO of ARTech Holdings, LLC an incubator and holding company focused on generating technologies to support the live arts community. Amongst Artech’s offerings is the premier amateur theatrical ticketing and web presence software www.OnTheStage.com. Hunter earned his bachelor’s degree in Entrepreneurial Business from DePaul University and his Master’s in Business Administration from TRIUM, a joint program representing NYU Stern School of Business, H.E.C. Paris and the London School of Economics. He is a frequent lecturer and guest professor on entertainment trends and economics, commercial theater and working in the arts.

KAYLA GREENSPAN

Broadway: Once Upon a One More Time, Hadestown (Tony Award), Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Pictures From Home, Ohio State Murders, KPOP, A Christmas Carol,  The Kite Runner, A Strange Loop (Tony Award),  The Little Prince, Chicken & Biscuits, The Inheritance (Tony Award), Slava’s Snowshow, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Tony Nomination), Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Once On This Island, Anastasia, and Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening.  Upcoming: Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch.  Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Desk Award and Drama League Award) and Daddy Long Legs.  Film: Executive Producer for A Christmas Carol, and Beau (Industry Choice Award for Best Film at Dances With Films. Best of Show, Best LGBTQIA+ and Best Ensemble awards for IndieFest Film Awards and 2022 nominee for Montreal independent Film Awards).

Kayla is Managing Producer at TBD Theatricals and the Director of Investor Relations for the Broadway Strategic Return Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to maximizing shareowner returns in the Broadway space. She has produced benefit concerts for GLAAD (Broadway Gets GLAAD) and The Trevor Project (Say My Name). In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022 Kayla was a judge for the SheNYC Summer Festival, a festival dedicated to supporting the creation of new works by female writers and composers. Kayla earned her bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in English at NYU’s Steinhardt School, as well as The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology in a joint program through NYU’s Stern School of Business and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

OPHELIA CHUA

Ophelia is proud to sit at the intersection of theatre and finance, driving innovation in the live theatre industry to serve creatives and investors alike. In arts and entertainment, Ophelia was most recently a Producer at TSG Entertainment, managing and developing live shows and experiences based on TSG’s film slate. Before TSG, she created the role of Director of Strategic Initiatives at American Ballet Theatre.

In finance, Ophelia has worked across Goldman Sachs’s Hong Kong and New York offices in private equity investment management. She also served as a producer and production manager for the inaugural GSAM Symposium, a consecutive 32-hour global conference across 5 cities, broadcast live. Passionate about elevating underrepresented voices, Ophelia currently serves on the Board of Musical Theatre Factory. She is an avid supporter of all aspects of theatre-making, with a particular soft spot for lighting design. Originally from Singapore, Ophelia earned her Bachelor of Engineering from Duke University, with Majors in Biomedical Engineering and Economics, and a Minor in Theatre, and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

TINA COCUMELLI

Associate Producer Tina Cocumelli focuses on finding and developing new projects for TBD. She joined TBD Theatricals after a long and successful career as a theatre educator. A Los Angeles native and graduate of the UCLA School of Theatre, she also holds a Master’s degree in Psychology & Counseling from Point Loma University. Tina has produced and directed over 200 plays and musicals with students and community theatre groups and brings this knowledge and experience to TBD.  Some of her favorite projects include Head Over Heels, In the Heights, A New Brain, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Dogfight, Chavez Ravine, Sweeney Todd, and The Kentucky Cycle.

ALI DAYLAMI

Ali Daylami (he/him) is an MFA candidate at Columbia University’s Theatre Management & Producing program. As a creative producer, he is dedicated to shaping an ethnically and culturally diverse theatrical future on Broadway, the West End, and around the world.

Production credits include Christopher Shinn’s Where Do We Live, 36 Questions, and For Molly at Lenfest Center for the Arts. In London’s West End, he was the creative consultant for Umm Kulthum & the Golden Era at the London Palladium. Internationally, he produced Pam Gem’s Piaf, Molière’s Tartuffe, Ron Bernas’ A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody, and Toby Bradford’s & Tina Webster’s Christmas pantomime, A Cinderella Story

RYLAND DORSHOW

Prior to joining TBD, Ryland spent over 3 years on the Valuation and Modeling team at Grant Thornton, leveraging financial modeling and analysis to assist clients of all sizes in understanding their true value and the value of their underlying assets and investments. Ryland has valuation experience across a variety of industries including entertainment, healthcare, tech, construction, real estate, hospitality, and consumer goods. Ryland earned his Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Minnesota with a Major in Finance (Curtis L. Carlson School of Management).

LEA LI

Lea Li (She/They) is a multi-talented theatre professional and enthusiast with experience in stage management, general management, producing, and directing. Before joining TBD Theatricals, she served as the production stage manager at A Stage Theatre, developing its first original play with music “Awake” as a founding member. She also contributed to “The Great Gatsby Immersive Experience” as a production assistant. In her spare time, Lea also freelances as a live music producer. Originally from Beijing, Lea holds an LL.B. and a B.A. in English from Tsinghua University. It was at this institution that her passion for theatre was ignited through the university’s musical club. As she currently pursues her master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration at NYU Steinhardt, Lea is eager to bring her enthusiasm and expertise to TBD Theatricals.

TURNER MESSER

Turner Messer is a NYC based Creative director, Performer, and writer. They are recent, graduate of Pace University where their major was Directing in the International Performance Ensemble program with a minor in creative writing. Storytelling is their passion and being able to tell a story through multiple different mediums is nothing short of a blessing. They are excited for the next chapter and are grateful to TBD Theatricals for this opportunity.
Previous Credits Include Inaugural Casting Fellow Black Theatre Coalition, Production Assistant: ( Ain’t to Proud, Jesus Christ SuperStar, What are You Now) Directing: (Hellbound Train,Fury Like a Drag Queen Scorned: Sylvia Rivera. A Stonewall Monologue by Diana Burbano,) Television Appearances: ( Law & Order, Let the Right One in and Power Part III Raising Kanan)

SCOTT MOORE

In 2010, Scott co-founded and was the Managing Partner of AKA NYC, an award-winning advertising agency with unparalleled expertise across the arts & entertainment, leisure, travel, retail, and tourism sectors. During his 10-year tenure, AKA NYC grew to one of the top entertainment arts advertising agencies in New York City with more than 100 Broadway clients including Matilda the Musical, Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Inheritance, Anastasia, Sunday in the Park with George, A Christmas Carol, Once on this Island, Come From Away and Company. Destination and Cultural Clients included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Botanical Gardens, The Metropolitan Opera, Hudson Yard’s observation deck Edge, and New York YMCA.

Scott came to AKA with more than 20 years of Broadway, national and international marketing, sales and campaign management experience. Previously, Scott was the Director of Marketing for Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller at The Producing Office where he directed and supervised the advertising and marketing efforts for Avenue Q, In the Heights and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, as well as West Side Story. Until November 2005, Scott was the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for NAMCO, an association that dated back to Gypsy starring Tyne Daly in 1991 and included Grease! and Annie Get Your Gun, starring Bernadette Peters and subsequently Reba McEntire. Most notably, Scott spent a decade shepherding Chicago The Musical on Broadway as well as in London, Sydney, Melbourne, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Moscow, Amsterdam and more cities than can be listed in the United States.

ANDREW PEREZ

Andrew is joining TBD Theatricals after receiving his Masters in Performing Arts Administration from NYU Steinhardt. Previously, he has worked for nonprofit theatre organizations in NYC including National Queer Theater and En Garde Arts. Andrew is particularly interested in the intersection between nonprofit and commercial theatre, and how the two entities can support one another in creating new and thought-provoking art.

ELIZABETH WU

Prior to joining TBD, Elizabeth assisted the Aksia LLC portfolio advisory team in delivering alternative investment solutions to institutional investors. She has additional experience assisting the East Rock Capital operation’s team in serving the firm’s family clientele. Elizabeth also brings with her an extensive arts administration background, with a strong eye for diversified storytelling. She has participated in Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Professional Arts Training Program and the Intiman Emerging Artist Program, with further production credits at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, and ArtsWest Playhouse. Elizabeth graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in English and Drama.