40 - David J. Kurs - a podcast by Ken Davenport

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.


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