THICKET & THISTLE is a troop of theatre makers who weave their multidisciplinary creative skills, imaginative storytelling, and humble virtuosity to create original, charming, and accessible musical theatre in which the actors are also the musicians playing multiple instruments while singing, dancing, and acting. Formed in early 2014, the current members are: Kyle Acheson, Julianna Wheeler, Jonathan Foster, Sam De Roest, Lindsay Zaroogian, and Joshua Stenseth. Thicket & Thistle’s first creation was a ten minute musical, What’s Your Wish?, for Theatre Now New York’s Sound Bites 2.0 festival. They then developed What’s Your Wish? to a full musical and performed it at the NY Fringe Fest in 2015, Access Theatre in 2016, The Michael Chekhov Festival in 2016, and NYMF in 2018. In 2015, Thicket & Thistle performed The Waterman at Ars Nova for their Summer ANT Fest, and the following year, they began developing their 3rd original musical, Death Cruise which played at Access Theatre and the PIT in 2019. In 2022 they remounted The Waterman at The Players Theatre. Thicket & Thistle is excited to be the first theatre company to regularly create a brand new musical in the time span of 24 hours LIVE! These have led to the creation of their short form musicals: There's a Problem in Blue Ball Pennsylvania, The Great Escape from The Boogaloogavoo Zoo, and We Whisk You A Merry Christmas! Thicket & Thistle has enjoyed residencies with Access Theatre, The PIT Theatre, The Players Theatre, and Theatre Now New York’s Musical Theatre Writers Lab.

https://www.thicketandthistle.org/whats-your-wish