Team Members
RASHAD V. CHAMBERS
Co-Founder, Executive Committee, Member
He/Him
Rashad V. Chambers is a Tony Award winning producer, talent manager, lawyer. and not-for-profit leader. He is currently the Executive Director of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus. Rashad's Broadway producing credits include American Son, Ain’t Too Proud, Betrayal, The Inheritance, Caroline, or Change, The Music Man, Topdog/Underdog, Fat Ham and Purpose. He also produced the New York premiere of Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical, Goddess at The Public Theater and Fat Ham at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Rashad attended Morehouse College where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration. He also earned his JD and MBA degrees from The Ohio State University. Rashad is a founding member of The Industry Standard Group as well as a board member of On Broadway Performing Arts Training Program and Houses on the Moon Theater Company.
MIRANDA GOHH
Co-Founder, Member
She/Her
Named a “2022 Woman to Watch on Broadway” by the Broadway Women’s Fund, Miranda Gohh is a Tony Award-nominated producer. She is the Founder of Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC), an organization that empowers the next generation of BIPOC producers through education, training, and mentorship. She is also a Co-Founder of The Industry Standard Group (TISG), the first BIPOC-led commercial theatre investment and producing organization. Miranda is the Associate Producer at Mike Bosner Productions, which is producing PROOF starring Ayo Edebiri & Don Cheadle, CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL, 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, amd SHUCKED. Broadway co-producing credits include: GYPSY (Tony nomination and Drama Desk Award), SUFFS (Tony nomination and OCC Award), CABARET (Tony nomination), Tony and Emmy Award winner Alex Edelman’s JUST FOR US, HERE LIES LOVE, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL, and KPOP. Off-Broadway: Lead Producer of the Obie Award-winning production of CIRCLE JERK. Miranda is the 2025 TTLP/Prince Fellow and a Member of The Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle. Through the Broadway League, she was a recipient of the Rising Stars Fellowship (2019-2020) and the Gatchell and Neufeld Award (2022) and is currently a Broadway League Associate Member. She is also an alumna of Wesleyan University.
ADAM HYNDMAN
Co-Founder, Managing Director, Member
He/Him
Adam Hyndman is a Tony Award winning producer, as well as a performer, director, and activist who has worked extensively in the arts. Some notable credits include: ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, NBC’s THE SING OFF, CHILDREN OF EDEN in concert at The Kennedy Center, ALADDIN on Broadway, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND on Broadway, HADESTOWN on Broadway, National Tour & West End, THE INHERITANCE on Broadway, HERE LIES LOVE on Broadway and GYPSY on Broadway. He incubates new projects and manages some of the industry's most renowned productions as Resident Producer at Octopus Theatricals. Adam serves in the not-for-profit realm as the Interim Executive Director of Pipeline Theatre Company, and is the current president of the board of directors for Producer Hub. He continues his work of disruption, radical accessibility, and conciliation as a co-founder of The Industry Standard Group and its subsidiary; Second Act Theatrical Capital, the first democratized investment portfolio for Broadway. Adam is also a creative and organizational consultant; having served previously as an equity strategy consultant with Groundwater Arts, and also as the inaugural project manager for RISE Theatre; an initiative of Maestra Music and The Miranda Family Fund, which creates an industry wide database to provide greater visibility and amplification for all professionals backstage, behind the scenes, and in support of theater making (Adam was named as one of Variety Magazine’s 10 Broadway Stars to watch for the 2023-24 season for his work with RISE Theatre). www.adamhyndman.com
TONI R. ISREAL
Co-Founder, Member
She/Her
Toni R. Isreal has expanded her love of Theatre to Film and Television respectively. Elected to the Board in 2024, NYWIFT (New York Women In Film and Television), she’s excited to learn and work with such phenomenal women. Asked in Sep 2025, to the NYWIFT Hamptons Film Festival (Oct 2025) to the film selection committee. Film Projects include: JUNKET, a narrative feature - Three actors promoting a heist movie fabricate a love triangle to boost publicity, but as their lies spiral and someone unexpectedly dies, they must survive a chaotic press tour without destroying the film, their careers, or each other. MAMA, a short film rooted in the quiet rage, beauty, and reconciliation of Black sisterhood, care, and generational healing. TV series (in the works) Life Lessons Learned While Loving A Forty-Five Year Old Felon, is a comedic series episodic, and is told in an anthological style. This is the series pilot, There Will Be…Bull$h*t. She is a Co-Producter on HADESTOWN West End (ReAct) and has been a co-pro on Secret Garden in LA. Currently in a few co-pro ‘raises’ in 2026/2027. Toni is the CEO and Founder of REALEMN Productions, she transformed a start-up into a profitable agency recognized for its excellence in client acquisition, account management, and innovative marketing strategies. Her leadership resulted in multi-million-dollar sales, including over $1 million in revenue for the Apollo Theater, achieved through strategic outreach, upselling, and personalized client service.
ROB LAQUI
Co-Founder, Member
He/Him
ROB LAQUI is a Tony® Award-Winning creative producer based in NYC. He is a Co-Producer on HADESTOWN West End and was a Co-Producer of HERE LIES LOVE on Broadway and the HADESTOWN national tour. He Co-Produced A STRANGE LOOP on Broadway, winner of 2022 Tony Award for Best New Musical, as well as Associated Produced the Broadway productions of DANA H. and IS THIS A ROOM. Rob is currently an Associate Producer for No Guarantees Productions and worked on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ART and STC’s regional productions of EVITA, BAD CINDERELLA on Broadway, and Tony nominated THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA. Previously, he was the Production Coordinator for NT America, the North American producing office for the National Theatre of Great Britain, representing the NT on various Broadway productions including NETWORK, HADESTOWN and THE LEHMAN TRILOGY and an Associate Producer with Mara Isaacs’ company, Octopus Theatricals, where he helped develop the HADESTOWN Education Initiative. Before his producing career, Rob performed in NYC and toured extensively as an actor, dancer and puppeteer with various companies including LaMama ETC’s Great Jones Repertory under Ellen Stewart, MOMIX Dance Company, the first national tour of the National Theatre’s WAR HORSE with Handspring Puppet Company, HERE LIES LOVE at the Public, Cirque du Soleil’s collaboration with James Cameron TORUK: THE FIRST FLIGHT - based off of the movie AVATAR, and on the puppet team for TipToe, the first inflatable puppet for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Offstage, Rob has been part of many creative teams as a choreographer, director, press representative, production spokesperson, puppet captain, and puppet builder. He is a co-founder of The Industry Standard Group, an investment and producing organization that addresses the lack of representation and diversity in commercial theater investing and producing and was on the Collaborazian producing team of the Telly Award winning, online, all-AAPI GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, raising money for Stop AAPI Hate. He is currently a Broadway League Member, recently joined the LaMama ETC Board, and is an Executive Producer for Cardinal Theatricals. www.RobLaqui.com
SAMMY LOPEZ
Co-Founder, Executive Committee, Member
He/Him
Sammy Lopez (he/him) is a Tony Award–winning theatre-maker dedicated to uplifting historically excluded voices through the arts. He is a co-founder and producer at P3 Productions, which recently produced Call Me Izzy starring Jean Smart, How to Dance in Ohio and Job on Broadway, and Mexodus by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, now playing Off-Broadway at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre. In development, P3 is building the Broadway-bound musical Wanted, which previously played at Paper Mill Playhouse and Signature Theatre, as well as The Ninth Woman, a new musical by the band Delta Rae. Sammy's recent co-producing credits with P3 include Art, Sunset Blvd. (Tony Award), The Last Five Years, Just for Us, and A Strange Loop (Tony Award). Additionally, Sammy is the Creative Producer at New York City Children’s Theater and a co-founder of The Industry Standard Group (TISG), an organization working to increase BIPOC representation among producers and investors. He also serves as a mentor for Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) and as an educator with The Business of Broadway. A proud graduate of Syracuse University, Sammy serves on the boards of New 42, TYA/USA, The Broadway League, CO/LAB Theater Group, and The Autistic Theatremakers Alliance. www.sammy-lopez.com
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RONEE PENOI
Co-Founder, Member
She/Her
Ronee Penoi (Laguna Pueblo/Cherokee) is a producer, composer, facilitator and activist. As Producer at Octopus Theatricals, she advances the work of many outstanding artists from development, production, to touring in the US and internationally. These artists and projects include Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis (ACTIVIST SONGBOOK), DeLanna Studi (AND SO WE WALKED), Phantom Limb Company (FALLING OUT), Ripe Time (Haruki Murakami’s SLEEP), Homer’s Coat (AN ILIAD by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson), Christine Jones’ THEATRE FOR ONE, and many more. Previously, Ronee was NNPN Producer-in-Residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Senior New Play Producing Fellow and Directing Fellow at Arena Stage, and toured nationally with Anna Deavere Smith’s LET ME DOWN EASY. She is a two-time ISPA (International Society for Performing Arts) Global Fellow, and has been an APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals) Leadership Fellow and TCG (Theatre Communications Group) Rising Leader of Color. Ronee is a composer at work on two new musicals with collaborator Annalisa Dias under the banner of FLORA MUSICALS, and is a co-founder of the Groundwater Arts Collective dedicated to climate justice in the arts (recipient of a SPACE at Ryder Farm Residency Grant). Groundwater Arts’ work includes movement building/organizing around a Green New Theatre (GNT), bespoke consulting in decolonization and anti-racism, and new creative theatrical projects. Ronee is a proud NEFA (New England Foundation for the Arts) National Theater Project Advisor, serves on Western Arts Alliance Committees (Indigenous and Conference Steering Committees) and co-leads the emerging Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA) Programs Committee. She is also on the Advisory Board of the Global First Nations Performance Network. Ronee is a recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship for her musical composing work. Previously Ronee spent three years with the Consensus Building Institute, a non-profit specializing in facilitation and mediation services. Her current anti-racism practice builds upon a decolonization framework and embraces systems change as a key component of that work. She graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in Music with certificates in Vocal Performance and Theatre & Dance. She has also been invited to guest lecture on producing at Princeton, Howard University, and for American University’s graduate Arts Administration program.
CYNTHIA J. TONG
Co-Founder, Member
She/Her
Cynthia J. Tong is a Tony-nominated Asian American theater producer, recently named one of Variety’s “41 Under 40: New Leaders Class of 2025.” As Producer at Tom Kirdahy Productions, Cynthia is currently working on the “smash hit” (Chicago Tribune) Broadway musical Just in Time starring Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin as well as several other plays and musicals in development independently and through TKP. Cynthia believes deeply in meaningful community building within the theater industry, and creating thoughtful and intentional access to the business side of theater. To that end, she co-organized the first ever Celebrating AANHPI Theatremakers on Broadway Brunch (2025) via AANHPI Broadway (@aanhpi.bway), co-founded The Industry Standard Group, and is an educator at Montclair State University and Business of Broadway. In addition, she was selected for the prestigious Shubert Organization Artistic Circle (2025) and was a Producing Fellow of WP Theater’s 2020-2022 Lab. Cynthia has worked on the producing teams of over 25 projects. Select highlights: Gypsy (2024; Tony Award nom); The Piano Lesson (2022; Tony Award nom., Drama Desk Award); Caroline (MCC Theater); Grey House (2023); New York, New York (2023; Tony Award nom.); Hadestown West End & National Tour (2023; with ReACT Entertainment); and LORDES (2018; New Ohio Theatre). Originally from Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles. Education: Wesleyan University (B.A., Sociology) IG: @cinnabunny24 www.cynthiajtong.com
ISHA GULATI
Strategy and Operations Manager
She/Her
Isha Gulati brings expertise in business management, strategy, operations, employee experience, social impact, and philanthropy to arts and culture organizations. She has previously held sales, account management, tech program management, diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging, and social impact roles in the corporate sector, while simultaneously bridging her work into the arts and culture sector. She has participated in the Theatre Producers of Color Producing 101 program, the TEDxBroadway Young Professionals program, The Commercial Theatre Institute's 12 Week Deep Dive Program, and The Broadway League's Fellowship program. In 2024, she received a Tony nomination with her TPOC partners as a co-producer of SUFFS: The Musical during its historic Broadway run, and the group has continued on as a co-producer of the 1st national tour. Now an Associate Member of The Broadway League, she sits on their Belonging on Broadway 2025 Summit Taskforce, contributing her expertise in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging work to the greater Broadway League community. Isha currently works as the Strategy and Operations Manager for The Industry Standard Group and as the Director of Programs and Membership for the Museum, Arts, and Culture Access Consortium. She is also pursuing a Master of Business Administration through New York University's Stern School of Business with the goal of establishing a business management and financial planning firm for artists, impact investors, and cultural organizations. Find her on instagram @isha.gulati.nyc for updates on her work.
LANCE MASON
Accounting & Finance
He/Him
Lance Mason is a distinguished accounting professional and licensed CPA known for his work supporting scaling businesses. He began his career at Ernst & Young working with engagement teams on external audits for Financial Services organizations. Currently, Lance supports startup organizations where he leverages his deep expertise in Accounting and ERP systems to build Accounting functions that scale. As a writer and speaker he combines his practical experience, technical acumen, and futuristic mindset to share insights that paint an inspiring vision for the future of the capital markets.
CHEYENNE MYRIE
Development and Membership Manager
She/Her
Cheyenne Myrie is a seasoned philanthropy professional with over a decade of experience in the nonprofit arts and culture sector. With a strong background in marketing and programming, she excels in developing and executing strategies that enhance philanthropic engagement and sustain donor relationships. She has previously worked with Signature Theatre Company, The Theater Offensive, New 42, Black Theatre Commons, and Musical Theatre Factory. Cheyenne’s commitment to arts administration is rooted in her research on Black Theatre and in her learnings from her mentors in the Black Theatre industry who operate at the intersections of performing arts and activism. With a deep understanding of the intersection of culture and philanthropy, she is passionate about advancing the visibility and sustainability of arts organizations and initiatives. Her work fosters a thriving ecosystem of support for underrepresented voices and culturally significant projects. Cheyenne is a recognized leader in her field, known for her strategic thinking, collaborative approach, and dedication to making a lasting impact through philanthropy and the arts. She holds a B.A. in Arts Management from Purchase College, SUNY, an M.A. in Black Theatre History and Narrative from New York University, and an M.B.A. from Quantic School of Business and Technology. You can learn more about her work and get connected at 6degreesapartllc.com
Who We Are and What We Do
A New Standard Is Being Set.
The Industry Standard Group (TISG) was founded in 2020 by eight collaborators of color who shared both deep experience in producing Broadway shows and a vision for change. Despite our collective track record, we often found ourselves as the only or one of very few people of color in rooms on Broadway where major producing decisions were being made. TISG was created to address that imbalance.
We create opportunities for those traditionally underrepresented and marginalized in the Broadway community to contribute to, invest in, and produce the highest level projects in the commercial theatre industry. Together, we can build an accessible and sustainable pathway for new stakeholders in the field and create more economic justice in the arts & entertainment industry.
Our Mission
We aim to disrupt and transform the opaque norms of the commercial producing industry by distributing transparency, resource, and power; for the purpose of more equal opportunity to all. We use our platform and leverage our influence to uphold standards of excellence and integrity. We commit to strategic visioning that opens discussion, builds new models, and galvanizes a wider audience.
Our Vision
We are committed to reimagining the producing model so that access to Broadway is no longer limited to a select few. Through strategic partnerships, innovative financial structures, and a focus on community, we develop new pathways for underrepresented investors and producers to take part in shaping the future of the industry.
Second Act Theatrical Capital (2ATC)
If TISG is like the production company, then 2ATC is like our Broadway show... It’s our first major project to impact the field and it’s where our mission comes to life.
Core Values
Collective Power
Democratized Investing
Sustainability for Broadway
For the first time
Broadway Investing Open for All
2ATC is the debut initiative of The Industry Standard Group, and it is where you and your community get to join us in our mission to disrupt the traditional model of Broadway producing and open doors for a wider, more diverse community of stakeholders.
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Democratized Investing
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Using the SEC’s Regulation CF, we have created the first and only open-access vehicle for micro-investors to participate in Broadway productions. For the first time, anyone can buy into Broadway as part of a collective.
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Collective Power
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By pooling resources, we lower barriers of entry, spread risk across multiple shows, and bring together a community of mission-driven investors who believe in a more representative future for theater.
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Sustainability for Broadway
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A wider base of stakeholders means not only more diverse perspectives, but also greater long-term stability for the entire industry. Through this initiative we are contributing to the growth of Broadway’s future.
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Our Members
Current Track Record of Success
Years of Experience:
35+
Years working on Broadway
TISG Members:
100+
Investors so far
Funds Raised:
$125K
Currently in 2ATC
TISG's Reach:
6
States Reached across the U.S.
Frequently Asked Questions
What we’re building is new and we believe in being transparent every step of the way.
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8 BIPOC Producers Unite to Fund a Different Broadway
The Industry Standard Group is putting investment muscle and production prowess behind the effort to build a more representative commercial theatre.
TISG Press
The Industry Standard is Producing a New Generation of Theater
The co-founders hosted a roundtable discussion over Zoom to reflect on the building process and where they are so far.
BIPOC Producers Form Organization to Create Equitable Theatre Landscape
The Industry Standard Group is founded by Rashad V. Chambers, Miranda Gohh, Adam Hyndman, Toni R. Isreal, and more.
The Industry Standard Group, the First BIPOC Commercial Theatre Organization Launches Today
The founding members are Rashad V. Chambers, Miranda Gohh, Adam Hyndman, Toni R. Isreal, Rob Laqui, Sammy Lopez, Ronee Penoi, and Cynthia J. Tong.
Alongside a few other producers of color, Gohh and Sammy Lopez had already collaborated to found the Industry Standard Group, a coalition to increase the presence of producers and investors of color.
A tuition-free program started by Theatre Producers of Colors is mentoring a new generation of theatremakers.