Bio
Jay F Kinsel is an Off-Broadway director with 30 years of experience in Directing and Design. He has worked in 8 countries with young performers from 50+ countries. He specializes in original works and loves being the first to produce a script. His highlights include the world premiere of The Ruin at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, assisting in the direction for Up with People's "A Common Beat", opening his own company: Next Horizon Theatre Company, and writing an adaptation of "Where The Wild Things Are". He is a member of both The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and The Dramatist Guild of America.
Approach
Collaboration and diversity of ideas are the keys to our industry's future. The role of "director" is changing into curator; where we now are responsible for collecting, sorting and configuring ideas in a cohesive and meaningful way that gives an audience the journey they deserve.
Scenic Design
Creative use of space and staging the elements that no other form of storytelling can compete. When designing sets, Jay strives to find inventive ways to interact with the audience, bringing the story to them and making them complicit in the action.