Jenn Dumas Wiggin
Co-Founder/Owner
Producer
Jenn Dumas Wiggin is the Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Atomic Focus Entertainment, LLC. She was previously the Executive Producer in charge of Production for The STAGE Network and produced all original content for the Network. She has executive produced talk shows, unscripted reality series, documentary series and filmed theatrical events.
Before producing film and television, she worked as a theater producer, company manager and general manager for Broadway, Off-Broadway and European Tours.
Dumas Wiggin has also produced concerts at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Symphony Space, and large scale events at the Hammerstein Ballroom, and Steiner Film Studios in Brooklyn. She is an active member of New York Women in Film & Television.
Allyson Rice
Producer/ Part-Owner
Walter Robinson
Composer/ Writer/
Consultant for Black Community Engagement
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Hope Shangle
Co-Founder
Tom Wiggin
Producer/Director
Tom’s work at Atomic Focus continues a professional show business career that has spanned five decades. He started as an actor, playing leads on Broadway (Grease), Off-Broadway (Livin’ Dolls), on Prime Time TV (Breaking Away) and on daytime TV (As the World Turns), among numerous stage and TV credits.
He expanded into writing: first for soaps such as Another World and As the World Turns; then writing an optioned screenplay (Gift of the Robin’s Nest) and completing a novel (The Client’s Wife).
For Atomic Focus, Tom serves as a creator, developer, producer, story editor and director for a variety of projects such as Crossovers Live!, Always Authors, Thursday in the Park with the Broadway Show League, and The Charleston Literary Festival.
Allyson began as an actress for decades on stage, radio, primetime TV (Family Ties, 413 Hope Street, TimeCop) and daytime (As the World Turns). She was Assoc. Director of Creative Development and a producer for The STAGE Network. She continued as a producer with Atomic Focus. Independently, she created and performed a multi-award-winning comedic rap music video (Fine, I’ll Write My Own Damn Song). As a writer she has written two TV pilots, three screenplays and is an award-winning author and narrator for her novel The Key to Circus-Mom Highway (2023).
Walter Robinson has held multiple distinguished residences, including a Fellow at the prestigious W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research/Hutchins Center, Harvard University; and Meet the Composer, Facing History and Ourselves, at The Mary Baker Eddy Library.
He is best known for his song “Harriet Tubman,” an American Folk Classic, and for his gospel musical “Look What a Wonder,” a fictional account of the Denmark Vesey Slave Uprising of 1822. His works have garnered grant awards from Steven Spielberg and Leonard Bernstein, as well as a coveted National Endowment of the Arts Composer Librettist Award.
Robinson was the subject of a national PBS half-hour special entitled “Walter Robinson and his Music,” and has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, American Theater Magazine, and The Boston Globe, to name just a few.
Hope Shangle is the Co-Founder of Atomic Focus Entertainment, LLC. Previously, she has line produced for docuseries' and films. Prior to producing, Hope was a performer and crew member in equity theaters, a casting associate for independent film, and an assistant at a large talent agency. Her playwriting has been produced in New York and the midwest. Hope is a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and a passionate Michigander.
Currently, Hope has moved on to exciting new ventures as an actress-writer-audiobook narrator, and can be reached through her website www.HopeShangle.com.