Kelvin Dinkins, Jr. (he/him) is an experienced performing arts executive leader, producer, educator, and consultant specializing in dynamic organizational development and culture, institutional strategic planning, and extraordinary change management.

With over 19 years’ leadership experience in the performing arts and higher education, Kelvin has worked with institutions across the country to successfully advance business operations, culture, strategy, and governance. As a proficient consultant, Kelvin has partnered with institutions such as Princeton University, Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company, Jacob’s Pillow, Spoleto Festival, Seattle Children’s Theatre, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, UNC Greensboro School of Theatre, JAG Productions, AEA Consulting, Keene Consulting, and Evolution Management Consultants.

Kelvin is a proud alumnus of Princeton University where he received his A.B. degree in English and Certificate in Theatre & Dance; he also received an M.F.A. in Theatre Management & Producing from Columbia University School of the Arts. Kelvin has previously served as the Executive Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University (A.R.T.), leading an unprecedented turnaround in the wake of the pandemic to the organization’s most profitable seasons and the launch of an historic $250M+ capital project to lead a new center for creativity and performance to Boston.

Kelvin has worked in senior management for various arts organizations including the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, Yale Repertory Theatre, Two River Theater, The Civilians, Theatre Forward, National Artists Management Company, and Intiman Theatre. Kelvin has also served on the boards of the Tony Award-Winning League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

Kelvin is currently a lecturer and case study advisor in the Theater Management M.F.A. program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale where he teaches Crisis Management & Recovery, Business Writing for Theater Managers, and Management Seminar. Kelvin is also a frequent guest lecturer and speaker on theater management, culture, and leadership for Princeton University, Harvard Business School, Brown University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance, New York University, Notre Dame, and Emerson College.

Kelvin is based in East Haven, CT and is committed to building collective action, joyful accountability, and sustainability in the practice of governance and management in the performing arts.

Curt Columbus is an arts leader and educator whose work has shaped the American Theater through institutional transformation, artistic leadership, and the development of the next generation of theater professionals.

Over more than forty years, he has led organizations through financial crisis, leadership transition, and long-range renewal while building new pathways for institutional success and longevity. Curt has taught artistic leadership for more than twenty years at Brown University, stewarding emerging leaders across the field, and has developed innovative curriculum at both the collegiate and graduate levels. He was awarded the 2019 Kennedy Center Medallion for co-creating the LORT/KennedyCenter ASPIRE Leadership Fellows Program for leaders of color and women.

From January 2006 through September 2026, Curt served as artistic director of Trinity Repertory Company, becoming the second longest-serving artistic director in the theater’s history; during that tenure, he also led the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA programs in Acting and Directing. While in leadership at Trinity, he helped retire an inherited deficit over half the size of the annual budget, addressed a structural deficit that persisted for three decades, expanded education, community, and anti-racist initiatives, and launched a $40 million dollar renovation project to transform access and programming in its historic theater building.

Prior to Trinity, Curt spent twenty years in Chicago theater, serving as associate artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company from 2000 to 2005, artistic director of Theater on the Lake from 1994 to 2006, director of the University of Chicago’s University Theater from 1994 to 2000, and artistic associate at Victory Gardens Theater from 1989 to 1994. 

As a director, playwright, translator, and adapter, Curt has worked at theaters across the country and built a nationally recognized body of published dramatic work. His adaptation of Dostoevsky’sCrime and Punishment(with Marilyn Campbell) has won awards and accolades at theaters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Dramatists Play Service publishes his translations of Chekhov’sSeagull,Uncle Vanya,Three Sisters,Cherry Orchard, andIvanov, as well as his translation of de Vega’sFuenteOvejunaand his original play,Sparrow Grass.