FERMIN ROJAS (Desert Playwrights’ Retreat Board Member)
“DPR provides a safe and pressure free opportunity for LGBTQ playwrights to explore writing from the heart.”
FERMIN ROJAS is a Cuban-born producer, filmmaker, actor, writer and co-founder of DKR Films. Based in Provincetown, DKR’s award-winning documentaries include There Are Things To Do (about LGBTQ activist Urvashi Vaid), Alumbrones, The Black Mambas and King Philip’s Belt : A Story of Wampum, which screened at The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian. Other filmed entertainment includes Women of Plymouth, Great Music on Sundays @5 (concert film series)
Narrative film credits include executive producer for The Ali’i King, written and directed by Christine Kunewa Walker.
He has authored and directed numerous plays, books for musicals and monologues for the stage, including as a member of Truro Playwright Collective where he presented a staged reading of Liberty Talks, his most recent work in development. Other works for the stage include: I Saw Red; Ashes (Provincetown Theatre 24 Hour Plays); The Man and January 2020 (My Covid Year) (both Sailor Beware); Rubbing the Beads (Provincetown Theatre 24 Hour Plays); Destination Holiday ( Lincoln Theatre, Miami Beach); A Twinkle in Time (Colony Theatre, Miami Beach); Miss Twinkleton School for Sensitive Boys presents The Nutcracker: Men in Tights (Colony Theatre, Miami Beach); The Gospel of Eureka (in development)
Along with husband Jay Kubesch, Fermin produced Cuba’s first and only gay men’s singing ensemble Mano a Mano. A veteran regional actor from South Florida, he was a member of the internationally recognized Spanish-speaking Teatro Prometeo where he worked on numerous productions with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
Other directing credits include Very, Very Jerry the Music of Jerry Herman,and An Evening with Jerome Kern with guest star Estelle Getty. Other regional credits include productions of The Andrews Brothers, Company, Glass Menagerie, Into the Woods, Lucky Stiff, Laundry and Bourbon and Lonestar, Hair.
Fermin studied musical theater under Philip Astor (original company 1776) at Coconut Grove Playhouse Conservatory.