Jim Kierstead

Jim Kierstead is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk, and Daytime Emmy Award-winning American theatre producer, film producer, and writer. He is best known for his work on Broadway.

Film and television Kierstead served as co-executive producer for Wakefield (2016), starring Bryan Cranston, and based on the short story of the same name by E. L. Doctorow. For the series The Bay, Kierstead and his co-producers were awarded the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series.

Productions 2023, The Gospel According to Heather (Off-Broadway), dir. Rachel Klein 2023, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway), dir. Thomas Kail 2022, The Minutes (Broadway), dir. Anna D. Shapiro 2021, Mrs. Doubtfire (Broadway), dir. Jerry Zaks 2019 The Inheritance (Broadway), dir. Stephen Daldry 2019 Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadway), dir. Arin Arbus 2019 Ain't Too Proud (Broadway), dir. Des McAnuff 2019 Be More Chill (Broadway), dir. Stephen Brackett 2018 American Son (Broadway), dir. Kenny Leon 2018 Pretty Woman (Broadway), dir. Jerry Mitchell 2017 M. Butterfly (Broadway), dir. Julie Taymor 2017 Indecent (Broadway), dir. Rebecca Taichman 2016 Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway), dir. Rachel Chavkin 2016 The Encounter (Broadway), dir. Simon McBurney 2015 It Shoulda Been You (Broadway), dir. David Hyde Pierce 2015 Kinky Boots (West End), dir. Jerry Mitchell 2014 Side Show (Broadway), dir. Bill Condon 2014 You Can't Take It with You (Broadway), dir. Scott Ellis 2014 Rocky the Musical (Broadway), dir. Alex Timbers 2013 Pippin (Broadway), dir. Diane Paulus 2013 Kinky Boots (Broadway), dir. Jerry Mitchell

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