We are Evening Squire
Mike Hayhurst - Founder & Creative Director
Mike Hayhurst is an award-winning director and producer for film and theatre. Born and raised in the UK, he co-founded Evening Squire Productions in 2016 and has created multiple award-winning short films including BEAT; Cook With the Heart (currently in development as a feature film); Upside Down Plain Face; 15 Down; Oma starring Lynn Cohen; and The Pits, a live-action puppet short about a lonely avocado in NYC that Frank Oz called “really good and very sweet.” Most recently, his proof-of-concept mockumentary about professional Finish hobbyhorser Ava Keppihevonen went viral and generated over 14.5M views.
His directorial feature debut And Through the Portal We Go is slated to premiere in 2024. Additional feature credits include Buck Run; The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson; and A Day Late and a Dollar Short with Whoopi Goldberg.
Previously, he spent four years as an Associate at Bill Haber’s Ostar Enterprises (Rizzoli & Isles, TNT; Beauty and the Beast, CW; Nothing to Hide directed by Neil Patrick Harris at Signature Theater; various Broadway projects).
New York theatre credits include the Off-Broadway premiere of demons.; MacSPIN and Duderonomy for Emmy-Winner Seth Freeman; Some Dead Bodies; King of Bohemia (MITF, Winner: Outstanding Direction); Miró; Love Thy Neighbour. Prior to moving to the US, he was the Youth Theatre Director for Royal & Derngate Theatres where he programmed and ran weekly theatre programs for over 200 young people between the ages of 2-21. He was Assistant Director to Rupert Goold on his productions of Hamlet; Faustus; and Paradise Lost; an Associate Director for R.I.P.P. (Norway); and Crackers? (Singapore and UK). He was also Plinther #733 in One & Other by Anthony Gormley (Trafalgar Square, London).
Allison Moy Hayhurst - Founder & Managing Director
Allison Moy Hayhurst is a southern-raised Chinese American NY-based producer, writer, and puppeteer. Most recently, she produced her first feature film And Through the Portal We Go, scheduled to premiere in 2024. She is a co-founder of Evening Squire Productions and has been instrumental in the production and writing of their myriad of award-winning short films. Notable projects include live-action puppet short The Pits; coming-of-age dramedy 15 Down (now on Amazon Prime); musical rom-com Uncertainty Principle; dark-comedy-horror-mockumentary Cook With The Heart (currently in development as a feature film); the spoken-word dance film Upside Down Plain Face; and the action-comedy BEAT.
Additionally, she oversees Evening Squire’s theatre production slate including the world premiere of the Off-Broadway Afro-Surrealist demons. and an upcoming musical tour in Australia.
She has won several awards for her work including Best Writing (15 Down) and has guided short films into over 100 film festivals internationally, including two Best of Fest tours with the New York International Children’s Film Festival and Telluride Mountainfilm. She is a proud member of PANO, Asians in Advertising, and has participated in several Sparrow Film Projects and Women’s Weekend Film Challenges (Moonshot Initiative).
Allison received her BA from The University of Alabama and later was part of the Actors Theatre of Louisville apprentice program where she trained under American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee Jon Jory. She also has a passion for improv comedy, costume design, vampire/witch novels, and food competition reality shows. Allison has lived in NYC for almost 15 years and will never turn down an opportunity for a Flushing food crawl.