PROUD MARYS - CREATIVE TEAM

With a passion for hook and heart, husband and wife creative team Jennifer Paz and Anthony Fedorov are on a musical quest to combine their love of pop music with authentic storytelling. A self-described "recovering dead ingénue," actor, writer, producer, Jennifer Paz was born in Manila and raised in the Seattle area. Her notable credits include Miss Saigon (1st National Broadway Tour, Helen Hayes Award nom, LA Ovation Award, various regional) Les Miserables (Broadway), David Henry Hwang's revisical Flower Drum Song (pre-Broadway, Mark Taper Forum), and is also known as the voice of "Lapis Lazuli" in the GLAAD Media Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning cult series "Steven Universe." Selected regional/international credits: 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Ordway Center, North Shore Music Theatre, East West Players, and Singapore Repertory Theatre.

After years of performing, Paz pivoted her creative journey into writing and producing. She is a 2024/2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist and has earned a dozen screenwriting accolades for her original pilots and short film screenplays, including Winner of Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition 2021 and placements with ScreenCraft 2022, the Academy Qualifying HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition 2021, and Stage 32 TV Comedy Screenwriting Contest 2021, among others. Her original screenplays were featured on the Coverfly All-Time Red List. Jennifer was a Finalist for the 2025-26 NBC Universal TV Writers Program and winner of the 2024 APAFT (Asian Pacific American Friends of the Theater) Emerging Playwright Award.  

As a writing team with collaborator husband, Anthony Fedorov, their current projects include "Proud Marys" - NAMT Fest '24, Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals 2024, Frank Young Fund Writers Residency Grantee - East West Players, 2023, Honorable Mention with the 2025 Relentless Music Award, and most recently showcased at "Bound for Boston - An Evening of New Musicals" with SpeakEasy Stage in association with Somerled Arts, hosted by Liz Callaway. Other collaborations include "Hash tag America" fka "Sing S.O.S.," conceived by Paz and Fedorov with presentations at the Green Room 42 and Catalina Jazz Club, 2019, and "4th and Gol: A Miserable JETS Fan Story," which also received early development support during their 2-week residency at JMF Writers Grove.  A working mom (to both human and rescue), you can usually find her with her laptop, covered in fur, with expired snacks in her purse. Paz would like to understand all things peri- and postmenopausal, as well as the brain fog experiences in between.

Born in Ukraine and raised in the Philly and New York area, Fedorov got his start performing in Russian restaurants and later made a notable mark as the "tracheotomy kid" who finished top 4 on Season Four of "American Idol." Stage credits include RENT revival (dir. Michael Grief, New World Stages), "The Fantasticks" Off-Broadway, title role of Joseph...Dreamcoat (various regional and international tours), "The 12" musical (Denver Center). In 2014, Paz and Fedorov released indie children's music ("Every Little Thing" under the duo name Auraganix), earning Tune Core's #BillionsClub status with 28+ million streams. This album has served as an early inspiration for Proud Marys.

They have since found a niche as a contemporary musical theatre writing team with several projects in development including "Proud Marys" (NAMT Fest '24, JMF Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, Frank Young Fund Writers Residency Grant - East West Players), and recently received an an Honorable Mention with the 2025 Relentless Music Award, Hash tag America, (conceived by Paz and Fedorov, with book by Nik Walker, music & lyrics by Fedorov with additional lyrics by Kyle Carter), and "4th and Gol: A Miserable JETS Fan Story" which also received early development support at JMF Writers Grove Residency. As a songwriter, Fedorov has written for artists including "Britain's Got Talent" winner Jai McDowell ("I Begin Again" 2011) and has numerous song placements with frequent collaborator Latin Grammy® Award Winning producing partner Jeeve Ducornet. As a voice teacher, Fedorov taught at Carpenter Elementary Charter School (TK - 1st grade), and is an instructor at School of Rock and Point Blank Music School in Hollywood.

A proud member of BMI, Fedorov's sync placements and commissioned songs for national campaigns include "Our Story is One" for the BIC - Baha'i International Community, "Enough is Enough" for Moms Demand Action, and "The Power of a Girl" for The Mona Foundation, Hulu's "Future Man," The Ellen Degenerous Wildlife Fund, SoCal Gas, among others.