MIRACLE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS (MTP)
Since its inception in 1996, Miracle Theatre Productions (MTP) has mastered the art of producing and managing commercial, broad-appeal programming and is credited with establishing the long-running, sit-down show concept in San Diego. With this business plan, MTP turned a chronically losing venue into one of San Diego’s most prominent theatre operations. The Theatre in Old Town had a 20-year history of chronic losses under the management of several successive tenants.  Taking over management in 1992 and operating the theatre on a for-profit, open-ended run basis, MTP was able to turn the tide on the venue and establish it as the home of long running hits.

MTP has garnered many awards for it’s long running productions of BEEHIVE,FOREVER PLAID, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY,  SHEAR MADNESS, I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE  and THE MALE INTELLECT: an oxymoron. 

Formed in 1994, MTP was honored to be a 1998 San Diego ConVis Finest Service Award nominee in the category of Individual Visitor Services and is the proud recipient of the Carol Channing Diamond Award for its fund raising efforts on behalf of AIDS related charities.

JILL K. MESAROS (Producing Director)
Jill is the Producing Director and CEO of Miracle Theatre Productions. Because of her success, Jill, with partner Paula Kalustian, was chosen as one of the top 50 people to watch by San Diego magazine.  She has served on the Board of Directors of the Old Town Business Improvement District since 1996 and has also served on the Historic Old Town Community Foundation Board.  Jill was Old Town’s nominee for the 2000 BID Volunteer Award and was a 1999 Women Who Mean Business nominee.

With an eclectic background from journalist to performer, choreographer and director, Jill has had a vibrant and interesting career.  With her own production company, It's Showtime!, Jill provided custom-designed entertainment for corporate and industrial accounts including General Electric and Bechtel Power Corporation as well as collaborating on an eight million dollar Freixenet Champagne commercial starring Paul Newman. She has directed and/or choreographed award-winning regional theatre productions around the country and has served as a guest artist, teaching and setting commissioned dance works for dance companies and educational institutions including Atlanta Jazz Theatre, Westport Ballet Theatre, Stephen's College and San Diego State University.

Jill received the Young Career Woman of the Year Award for the state of Wyoming for her work as News & Public Affairs Director for KMTN-FM in Jackson, Wyoming where she also headed the Jackson Hole Film Commission.

In San Diego, Jill has received several awards for her choreography and costuming including a Dramalogue Award, a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award, and a Robby Award nomination for her work on the mega hit BEEHIVE, the West Coast premiers of SONG OF SINGAPORE and GILLIGAN’S ISLAND:THE MUSICAL, the Kander and Ebb revue 2 x 5, ALL NITE STRUT and RUTHLESS, THE MUSICAL. 

Jill is married to Broadway performer Steve Anthony. Steve is one of the original 22 dancers about whom Michael Bennett wrote his most famous show, A Chorus Line. With their own cabaret act, Jill and Steve performed with such greats as Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Jack E. Mason and Alan King. Jill & Steve have a beautiful and talented 20-year old daughter.

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PAULA KALUSTIAN (Artistic Director)
Paula is the Artistic Director for Miracle Theatre Productions at The Theatre in Old Town, where she directed the mega-hit, Beehive; regional premieres of Song of Singapore and Weird Romance; and the West Coast premiere of Gilligan's Island: The Musical. Other Theatre in Old Town productions include: Personals, 2X5, The All Night Strut, Once on a Summer's Day, and Ruthless, the Musical.  Paula is also the Director of the Master of Fine Arts Musical Theatre Program at San Diego State University, one of only three such programs in the United States.

On Broadway, Paula served as Creative Production Coordinator on Rags, starring Teresa Stratas and Larry Kert. Paula's Off-Broadway credits include the Joe Stein-Stephen Schwartz musical, The Baker's Wife, and Wendy Kesselman's The Juniper Tree. Paula was chosen as one of six directors from around the country to participate in the famed pilot Musical Theatre Program at New York University, created by Leonard Bernstein and Dean Oppenheim. There, collaborative teams conceived and developed new musicals, working in mentor relationships with great musical theatre writers like Hal Prince, Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, John Weidman, Richard Maltby, Jr. and Stephen Schwartz.

Paula has directed and choreographed more than one hundred and twenty regional theatre productions across the country. Paula is active in the San Diego arts community, having served on the Executive Boards of the San Diego Performing Arts League and The Actors Alliance of San Diego.