Our Mission

Broadway Virtual was founded by Emmy, Olivier, and six-time Tony Award-winning producer Jim Kierstead, founder of Kierstead Productions, Inc. Bringing over 30 years of experience in information technology together with over 20 years of experience developing and producing work for the stage, film, and television, Broadway Virtual's mission is to help artists continue developing their work, whether the eventual goal is the live stage, film, streaming, or a combination of all three.

Broadway Virtual understands the vital role that not-for-profit theatre plays in our community and in the development process. We are dedicated to creating content for streaming and to helping sustain the critical role not-for-profits play in our landscape, while promoting equitable participation in theatre and all forms of entertainment.

Our Services

Streamed and Filmed Theatre

Broadway Virtual creates all types of content for streaming, along with the filming and capture of theatrical performances, so your work can reach audiences wherever they are.

Virtual and Hybrid Events

From awards shows and galas to benefits, concerts, and conferences, we produce virtual and hybrid events from capture sessions through the finished stream.

Technology and Theatre Development

If you are an artist or a not-for-profit theatre, please be in touch. Part of our mission is to help you use the latest technologies to keep developing your work, and to create content that helps not-for-profit theatres stay connected with their subscribers and audiences.

Our Process

Decades of Information Technology Experience

Broadway Virtual leads clients through digital production with technical precision and the creation and execution of creative elements. By integrating decades of information technology experience with decades of theatrical production experience, giving us a unique understanding of both sides of the process, we bring a distinctive blend of digital know-how. The result is an efficient, rewarding, and collaborative experience for the leadership of the organizations we work with, whether that's one person or a whole team.

Qualified Leadership

Founder & Executive Producer Jim Kierstead leads the execution of all logistics concerning the streaming platform, labor, and equipment procurement. Broadway Virtual is a content creator with established partnerships with leading digital platforms and closed-caption services. We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and we raise it in every creative discussion so that it stays at the forefront of the planning process, encouraging our clients to think globally about the people in and out of the room.

Our Team

JIM KIERSTEAD

Founder & Executive Producer

Jim Kierstead is a Grammy-nominated, Emmy, Olivier, and six-time Tony Award-winning producer of the Broadway, touring, Toronto, and London productions of Kinky Boots, the revival of Pippin, Hadestown, The Inheritance, The Lehman Trilogy, and Company. He has been a co-producer of 25 Broadway productions, including The Visit, You Can't Take It With You, Indecent, and 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, and Rocky.

Off-Broadway, his projects include Unexpected Joy, Yank! (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominees), Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, and Thrill Me – The Leopold & Loeb Story (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominees). In London he has produced Waitress, Dreamgirls, Unexpected Joy, Yank!, Thrill Me, Night of the Living Dead, and Aspects of Love. His film and TV work includes the Emmy-winning series The Bay, Indoor Boys, After Forever, and Wakefield starring Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner.

Jim founded Broadway Virtual as a Kierstead Productions company specializing in streamed and recorded content and in helping artists develop their work using technology. Through Broadway Virtual he served as technical supervisor for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's 2020 Festival of New Musicals and executive producer of TheaterWorksUSA's Connecting the Dots virtual benefit. He serves on the Board of Directors of The York Theatre Company and The Abingdon Theatre Company.

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