A Wild Thing
a '60s rock musical for our time
book, music & lyrics by
Michael Medeiros
BREAKING:
Tony winner, Santino Fontana and Kirsten Scott sing from A Wild Thing.
Written for the stage, there is now an exciting new screenplay.
SYNOPSIS: Violet survives a storm at sea that drowns her twin brother. When his suitcase washes up onshore, she impulsively climbs into his clothing and restarts her life as a boy. She soon falls in love...wearing the wrong clothes.
Inspired by one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, A WILD THING transforms characters and circumstance into the youthful renaissance of the 1960s. AWT was partly developed at the Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed and was a Finalist for a 2023 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship: "Among the top 25, we firmly believe your voice contributes significantly to the vibrant landscape of musical theater."
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"An adaptation like no other... illuminating our own time through the lens of '60s conflict and culture."
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Demos of the original score, include recent sessions with Tony winner, Santino Fontana and legendary sax player, Lou Marini (Blues Bros., original Saturday Night Live Band, James Taylor's All star band).​​
The composer sings
"Brother Blues"
A clip featuring legendary sax man, Lou Marini (original Saturday Night Live Band, Blues Bros, etc).
BIO:
MICHAEL MEDEIROS (book, music & lyrics) was raised in Hawaii and began as a music major at the University, but after being stricken by a production of Arthur Miller's, The Crucible, he moved into theatre and never moved out. In his third year, he played in Coriolanus with Irish acting legend, Cyril Cusack (Farenheit 451) and Macbeth with Timothy Dalton (later James Bond), and won the UTG Award for best undergraduate actor.
FAST FORWARD: Michael joins the Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed with his rock musical, A Wild Thing. He was also a Finalist for a 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. Other works for the stage include, The Fallen, a post Civil War telling of Chekov's Cherry Orchard and Billy Burnham's Dream, a musical about the demise of the music industry.
He has been an onstage instrumentalist at Goodman, Long Wharf, Huntington & Great Lakes Theatres among others.
FILMS as writer/director, include 3 Minutes, a film about a mass shooting in a movie theatre, Undergound, shot entirely in the NYC subway system and the indie feature, Tiger Lily Road starring Tom Pelphrey (Mank, Ozark, Task), which won an Audience Award for Best Feature Comedy at Woods Hole and ran at NYC's Quad Cinema. Available on PRIMEVIDEO.
Trailers at: www.michaelmedeiros.com/direct
AS AN ACTOR, Michael has appeared in film & television and in theatres in New York, LA and points in between, including1776 at City Center Encores, directed by Tony winner, Garry Hynes (Druid Theatre), Museum at Joe Papp's Public Theatre, directed by Max Stafford Clark (Royal Court), Trestle At Pope Lick Creek at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, directed by theatre legend, Adrian Hall. He won critical acclaim for Camino Real at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and also appeared in Violet at Playwrights Horizons, Ah Wilderness at Circle In The Square, Outrage at the Kennedy Center, The Front Page at Long Wharf, Twelfth Night at Huntington Theatre (Boston) and many more. He has sung the title roles in Sweeney Todd and Man of La Mancha, and lead a cavalry charge across the plains of Montana in Son Of The Morning Star. Other SCREEN appearances include X-Men First Class, RoboCop2, Synecdoche New York, a recurring role on Manifest and seven episodes of Law & Order.
He loves cats and dogs equally.