Kurt Deutsch

Kurt Deutsch is an actor, director, and record producer.

Biography

Deutsch was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Syracuse University and the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. He resides in New York City with his wife, actress Sherie René Scott and their son Elijah Mack Deutsch.

h-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records

In 2000, Deutsch and Scott founded Sh-K-Boom Records. They named the company after themselves (Sherie and Kurt). The label's first two releases were Scott's debut album, "...Men I've Had," and the debut of her former "RENT" co-star Adam Pascal. Sh-K-Boom also participated in the marketing of the debut album of another "RENT" co-star, Anthony Rapp.

In subsequent years, Deutsch and Sh-K-Boom started to produce and released cast recordings of musical theatre productions in New York. This move filled a gap in the market and aided the preservation of musical theatre history: major record labels used to release recordings of shows on a regular basis, but in recent years even major Broadway shows may not see a major release, since the market for such recordings is relatively small.

In 2004, a new musical theatre subsidiary of Sh-K-Boom, Ghostlight Records, was created. Ghostlight's first release was the Actors' Fund of America Benefit Recording of "Hair". It has since released several albums, including the original Broadway cast recordings of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee". Sh-K-Boom continues to release solo albums by members of the New York musical theatre community. In November 2004, Sh-K-Boom produced the CD cast recording for the Obie Award-winning musical "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant," which was later given four out of five stars on Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:yb1uak3ksm3m Original Soundtrack] , review of CD release, on Allmusic, Sean Westergaard, AMG Album ID : R 714785.] [ [http://www.sh-k-boom.com/scientology/ Sh-K-Boom Records] , official site, on Kurt Deutsch's company's soundtrack, "Disclaimer" CD released November 2004.] .

Awards and Honors

Deutsch as producer, with Joel Moss, was honored with 2006 Grammy Award nominations in the "Musical Show" category for two Ghostlight albums, the Actors' Fund Benefit Recording of "Hair" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee". A third Ghostlight album, the "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" cast recording, was nominated in the same category.cite web | url = http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Annual_Show/48_nominees.aspx#21
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Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight were awarded a special 2006 Drama Desk Award for dedication to the preservation of musical theatre through original cast albums.cite web | url = http://www.dramadesk.org/press041.htm
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Acting

As an actor Deutsch appeared on Broadway in "Broadway Bound", "A Few Good Men", he appeared off broadway and in regional theatres around the country. He was a series regular on the television series "The Human Factor" and "Winnetka Road", and he guest starred on "Sex and the City", "Law & Order", "Quantum Leap", "Matlock", and "Models Inc". His film roles included "The Eye of the Storm", "The First To Go" and "Labor Pains" .

References

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* [http://www.sh-k-boom.com/ Sh-K-Boom Records]