ABOUT
PATTON DAYE SLATER PRODUCTIONS
Patton Daye Slater Productions was formed by Monica L. Patton, Robert Daye and Adam Slater initially to develop and produce the new dramatic musical “Love & Southern D!scomfort” written by Monica and Bobby. Other projects may be added in the future.
Monica L. Patton – Co-Managing Partner
Ms. Patton is the author of the new musical Love & Southern Discomfort (formerly known as “The Inheritance: Love, Drugs & Southern Discomfort”). She has been with the company of The Book of Mormon Second National Tour since its inception in 2012. She has worked with such notables as Jesse Norman, Diahann Carroll, and Freda Payne. She covered Eartha Kitt as the Fairy Godmother in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s’ Cinderella and sang opposite Jon Secada as the Narrator in the National Tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Her other credits include; Broadway: Finian’s Rainbow, Abby’s Song, and Ragtime. Off-Broadway: Little Ham. National Tours: Disney’s The Lion King, Annie 30th Anniversary. She is also the author of a book entitled “Beautiful Carnage”.
Robert ‘Bobby’ Daye – Co-Managing Partner
Mr. Daye, who wrote the music for Love & Southern Discomfort, has a career that has crossed into stage, film, t.v. and radio. He is currently touring with Aladdin. His Broadway credits include Shrek the Musical, The Color Purple, The Lion King, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Dreamgirls, The Wiz and The Book of Mormon. He is also a recipient of an Outstanding Individual Performance Award for his work in the 2010 NYMF production of The Great Unknown. As a songwriter, he penned the theme song to the ABC-TV soap Loving, which was performed by Johnny Mathis. He was a 9-time male vocalist winner on Ed McMahon’s Star Search and has appeared on television in Law and Order and ED (among others).
Adam Slater – Co-Managing Partner
Mr. Slater is a Toronto-based attorney. After starting his legal career as a criminal prosecutor in Pittsburgh, he moved to Toronto and joined the largest law firm in Canada where he worked primarily on billion-dollar asset backed securities offerings. He currently is in private practice. He is an Executive Producer of a short film entitled “Un{H}armed” by Tyrone L. Robinson and was an Executive Producer of The Inheritance Musical Concerts (now “Love & Southern Discomfort” in Chicago. He has since joined LASD as a full producer.