BROADWAY VIRTUAL - Key Persons
Claudia is overjoyed to be part of the Broadway Virtual team. A trained stage manager, she uses her organizational skills and commitment to collaboration to help ensure the success of each project. She is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she earned a BFA in Theatre Arts.
With Broadway Virtual: 2021 WGA Awards' full event including capture sessions with host, presenters, all nominees, winners, and conceiving and creating the writer focused interstitials comprised of her interviewing 200+ writers, creating a celebration of them, through them with their own words and voices; BIV Holiday Concert; TWUSA Fall Benefit; AATE - Young Playwrights, shepherding two early teenage writers through a development and rehearsal process culminating in a digital reading of their work;
Selected Theatrical Direction: SUNDOGS with Jenn Gambatese and Jordan Bridges, THE ADULT IN THE ROOM, RIGHT BEFORE I GO, YOUR TITLE GOES HERE, THE PERMANENT NIGHT, ELIZABETH: ALMOST BY CHANCE A WOMAN, WASP, THE WHOLE SHEBANG; BEAU: THE NEW MUSICAL (A.D.), THE WOLVES (A.D. Lincoln Center); In development - ST. ELIZABETH's with writer Carol Ann Brammer, IT'S IN THE PLAY with actor/writer Orlagh Cassidy, and DON'T QUOTE ME (based on and inspired by Marie Torre's book of the same name).
Job Titles:
- Executive Producer
- Founder of Kierstead Productions, Inc
Emmy, Olivier, and three-time Tony Award-winning producer of the Broadway, touring, Toronto, and London productions of Kinky Boots, the revival of Pippin, and Hadestown. He is currently represented on Broadway as a co-producer of Tony-nominated Ain't Too Proud and Waitress, as well as The Inheritance. In addition, he has been a co-producer of 20 Broadway productions including The Visit, You Can't Take It With You, Indecent, The Great Comet (all Tony nominated), Be More Chill, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Pretty Woman, Side Show, It Shoulda Been You, M. Butterfly, Rocky, among others.
Job Titles:
- Editor
- Broadway United Co - Founder
William Fernandez is a former newspaper editor with more than 30 years of experience. He led the team that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and is the recipient of two Emmy nominations. He just finished executive producing Miami's biggest hit, Amparo the Experience, an immersive theatrical play that deals with the plight of immigrants and ran for eight months.