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