David J. Kurs is the producer and artistic director of Deaf West Theatre. Their 2015 production of Spring Awakening, an intermodal rock-musical adaptation of a controversial late-19th-century German play about growing up in a sexually repressive culture, had an extended run, and is headed for Broadway.
Pick your format, whatever your format, and listen to/watch/read Mr. Kurs talk about all things involved in being an Artistic Director and his company’s second foray to Broadway, like:
- Why deaf actors make the best actors around.
- Why, unlike other Artistic Directors of nonprofits, DJ doesn’t want Deaf West to have its own venue.
- How Broadway can be more accessible.
- The challenges of marketing Deaf West productions to a mainstream audience . . . in Los Angeles.
- How Spring Awakening got started, and why it’s a symbolic production for the deaf community.
Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway