Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Justin Mikita Prep Musical Microdrama ‘Theater Kids Vs. Zombies’ For aTwist
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- Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita are producing musical comedy microseries 'Theater Kids vs. Zombies' for aTwist, with Ferguson attached to direct.
- The series premise: scrappy high school theater kids realize staging the greatest musical of their lives is their only hope when zombies attack their school.
- aTwist is a microseries studio founded by former Showtime president Jana Winograde (CEO), former NBCU Content chairman and Warner Bros TV president Susan Rovner (CCO), and former ABC and WME chairman Lloyd Braun (executive chairman); the platform launches later this summer.
- The cast features Kadyn Kozminski, Jeff Lawless, Amanda Drewes, John Woods III, and Danielle Judovits.
- Creative team adds choreographer Jamal Sims and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Shane McAnally to the production.
- Mikita is currently a producer on the Broadway revival Cats: The Jellicle Ball, lending direct musical-theater producing pedigree to the project.
Why it matters: aTwist's debut programming bet pairs a Modern Family lead with Broadway-caliber creative talent (Grammy-winning songwriter Shane McAnally, Cats: The Jellicle Ball producer Mikita) for a microseries launching on a platform hitting the market this summer. Rovner framed the genre mashup as 'bold, original and joyfully unexpected' — signaling aTwist's intent to compete on prestige short-form rather than recycled IP.
