Artistic Director, Deaf West Theatre / Producer

DJ Kurs

DJ Kurs has served as Artistic Director of Deaf West Theatre since 2012. Under his leadership, Spring Awakening transferred to Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre; Beethoven’s Fidelio was mounted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel and toured internationally; and Green Day’s American Idiot returned to the Mark Taper Forum. Upcoming projects include the original musical Elephant Shoes, headed for Broadway, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind. Gratitude and love to Alice, Isabella, Milo, and Romy.

Managing Director, Deaf West Theatre / Producer

Jeff Perri

Jeff Perri is the Producing Managing Director of Deaf West Theatre, where he oversees all operational and financial aspects of the company and serves as producer of its full slate of productions and projects. He brings extensive experience from across the theatre industry and has been a key partner in building Deaf West’s national and international profile. Since 2022, he has led the company’s bi-coastal expansion, establishing a greater New York presence for the Tony Award®-winning company.

Producer

Deaf West Theatre

Founded in Los Angeles in 1991, Tony Award®-winning Deaf West Theatre, led by Artistic Director David Kurs and Managing Director Jeff Perri, engages artists and audiences in unparalleled theater experiences inspired by Deaf culture and the expressive power of sign language, weaving ASL with spoken English to create a seamless ballet of movement and voice. Committed to innovation, collaboration, and training, DWT is the artistic bridge between the Deaf and hearing worlds. Recent and past productions include the new original musical Elephant Shoes; a new production of Green Day’s American Idiot, in a co-production with Center Theatre Group; the groundbreaking production of Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel; an exciting new play adaptation of Oedipus at the Getty Villa Museum, directed and adapted by Jenny Koons; The Solid Life of Sugar Water by Jack Thorne; Our Town, in a co-production with the Pasadena Playhouse; Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo, in a co-production with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts; Spring Awakening the Musical, which transferred from Inner-City Arts to the Wallis and then to Broadway (three Tony Award® nominations including Best Revival of a Musical); American Buffalo (Los Angeles Times “Critic’s Choice”); Cyrano, a co-production with the Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Production); Big River the Musical (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and Backstage Garland awards for Best Musical in its L.A. premiere, a Tony Award® nomination, and four Drama Desk Awards on Broadway); Pippin, produced at the Mark Taper Forum in a co-production with Center Theatre Group; Sleeping Beauty Wakes, also a co-production with Center Theatre Group, presented at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Oliver! (Ovation Award for Best Musical); and A Streetcar Named Desire (Ovation Award for Best Play). In 2005, DWT was selected to receive the Highest Recognition Award by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for its “distinguished contributions to improve and enrich the culture lives of Deaf and hard of hearing actors and theater patrons.”

To learn more, visit deafwest.org.

Producer

OHenry Productions

Oliver Roth and Daniel Neale are producers at Tony and Olivier Award-winning OHenry Productions. Broadway: Schmigadoon!, Paddington, Sunset Blvd., Merrily We Roll Along, Parade. Off-Broadway: Kramer/Fauci, Love Me, Tru, Spring Awakening. London: All My Sons, Clarkston, Hay Fever, Rent.

Producer

Nimitt Mankad

Nimitt Mankad is a New York-based producer whose work spans film and theater, united by a single instinct: that the most personal stories carry the most universal weight. As founder of Inimitable Pictures, his films have traveled to Sundance, Cannes, the Academy Awards, and the Golden Globes, including Captain Fantastic (Winner, Best Director, Cannes Un Certain Regard), Trumbo, and Danny Collins. On stage, he brought Nirbhaya, the acclaimed, Amnesty International award-winning production that originated at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to New York City, where it was hailed as “the most harrowing theatrical experience currently in New York.”

General Management

Evan Bernardin Productions

Evan Bernardin Productions has managed over 100 productions worldwide. Select credits — New York: Here There Are Blueberries (Barrymore Theatre), Masquerade, Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk), and The Jonathan Larson Project. Touring: On Your Feet!, Madagascar, Million Dollar Quartet, and concert tours of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Outlander, and Twilight.

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