Thicket & Thistle is a group of multidisciplinary actor-musicians who utilize collaborative writing to develop engaging new theatre. Our process fuses the traditional mediums of theatre and music in nontraditional ways to create original performances. Our musical theatre for the young at heart aims to provide an experience that uplifts, entertains, and engages. Thicket & Thistle is made up of Kyle Acheson, Sam De Roest, Jonathan Eric Foster, Joshua Stenseth, Juliana Wheeler, and Lindsay Zaroogian. It was founded as a devising group of actor-musicians, blurring the lines between writer, performer, and orchestra. We share in every aspect and responsibility of the creative process. We have collaboratively written and produced 3 full length musicals and 3 short one-act musicals. Our flagship show, What’s Your Wish?, appeared in the NY International Fringe Festival (2015) and New York Musical Festival (2018) and also had a New York City run produced by Theatre Now New York (2017). We were granted a residency at the Access Theatre in 2017-2018 to work on our musical, Death Cruise. We received a NYSCA award to produce a run of that show in the summer of 2019 at Access Theatre. We have been part of the Theatre Now New York’s musical theatre writing lab for 2 years where we reworked The Waterman, which is scheduled to be performed in September of 2021 at The Players Theatre. We are also developing a movie musical, Grapes of Rad, in collaboration with The Barn in Los Angeles.
